State Minister for Karamoja Affairs Agnes Nandutu has run to the Constitutional Court, seeking orders to stop her iron sheets corruption trial that is set to commence today before the Anti-Corruption Division of High Court in Kololo, Kampala.

In her petition filed yesterday, the minister contends that the offence of dealing with suspect property that she is charged with is not well defined as demanded by the Constitution.

According to Nandutu, who is also Bududa District Woman MP, the offences that she is being charged with are not sufficiently, defined as required by Article 28 (12).

Nandutu argues that this ambiguity permits the police and the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to arbitrary arrest and detain people in absence of reasonable suspicion and on assumption of being in possession of suspect property.

Through her lawyers of Alaka & Co. Advocates and Nandaah Wamukoota & Co. Advocates, the minister wants the Constitutional Court to halt the trial.

She also wants the court to issue a permanent injunction restraining the DPP from prosecuting her until her petition is heard and determined.

Last month, the journalist-turned politician was charged and sent to Luzira prison for dealing with suspect property in connection with the Karamoja iron sheets scandal.

After spending close to three weeks in Luzira, she was released on a cash bail of Shs10m.