This investigative media website on July 31st 2025, exclusively posted a story centered on the police forensic report, pinning the Exim Bank’s chairperson Board of Directors, Hajjat Nalongo Sarah Nanziri Baagalaliwo, over purportedly forging her husband’s signatures, basing on the same to register a disputed Baagalaliwo Foundation.
Hajjat Baagalaliwo has since ridden on the disputed Foundation, attempting to annex properties forming part of Hajj Baagalaliwo’s, his late mother, Hajjat Mulasi Nakakawa, comprising of rental premises in Kibuli-Kisugu in Makindye Division, and properties Hajj Baagalaliwo himself donated to his relatives in Iganga, plus to the Muslim community respectively.
Nalongo Nanziri, prior to the release of the forensic report to the contrary, had not only asserted that her husband instructed her to register the disputed Foundation, but also to seize properties owned by third parties and transfer them to the bogus Foundation. This stance, and yet Hajj Baagalaliwo was already in, and still is in a coma.
Following the release of the forensic report dated July 1st 2025 and authored by Eric Ssebuwufu, a Handwriting expert attached to the Uganda Police Forensic Services, notice of the same has since been made available to Exim Bank, duly cautioning them to shove aside their boss Nanziri, as the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Directorate of the Uganda Police conducts further inquiries into the serious criminal charges.
The caretaker of the late Hajjat Nakakawa’s estate, Hajj Bashir Balozi Baagalaliwo, who is also Baagalaliwo’s eldest and only male child, is the one who penned the letter to Exim Bank, bringing to the financial institution’s attention the findings of the forensic report.
The forensic report was based on Ssebuwufu’s examination of Hajj Baagalaliwo’s sample signatures and the questioned signatures attributed to him contained on the Memorandum and Articles of Association, dated April 17th 2023 on which Nanziri based to register the disputed Foundation on April 20th 2023 and attributed the same to her husband.
The examination returned negative results in relation to the questioned signatures whose author lacked the skill and ease of Hajj Baagalaliwo in as far as writing his signature was concerned. As a reminder, Nanziri purportedly carried out the above fraudulent activities two months after her husband had collapsed into a coma on February 27,2023.
Be that as it may, Ms Nanziri asserted that her husband, who was ironically in a coma already, was the one who instructed her to register the disputed Foundation and even, annex properties of third parties and transfer them to it. Upon the beneficiaries of the properties raising resistance against her schemes, Hajjat Nanziri oddly went to court and claimed that her husband was the owner of the properties she wanted to seize, yet the same belonged to third parties including her late mother-in-law.
That stance, despite the fact that her husband himself was the one who donated one of those properties to his relatives, to the Muslim community in Uganda, while her late mother-in-law left behind a certificate of title to her estate, proving that she had purchased the property herself.
After a counterclaim to her cases had been lodged by the caretakers of the estate of the late Nakakawa, Ms Nanziri revealingly chickened out of her own litigation and applied to the Family Division of the High Court for permission to withdraw those matters. But the court in it’s wisdom, rejected her prayers, dismissing instead her cases for being inherently bogus.
The counter-claimants rejected to be drawn into withdrawing their own claim especially since Nanziri has for the last more than twelve years been reportedly collecting rent from the rental premises in Kibuli and Kisugu, left behind by her mother-in-law, Hajjat Mulasi Nakakawa.
Consequently, they want court to order an audit to find how much exactly, she has collected during those years and then, order her to refund those funds with interest applicable, on top of exemplary and punitive damages. That group further seeks for a court’s ordered, declaring illegal and high handed as well as irrational Ms Nanziri’s seizure of the properties in question.
The counter-claim is still pending hearing and resolution by the Family Division of the High Court. Apart from potentially facing the bad prospect of refunding funds she has been collecting from tenants in respect to her late mother-in-law’s estate, Ms. Nanziri likely faces the other grim prospect of being criminally prosecuted over the serious criminal charges of forgery, impersonation, fraudulent registration of a bogus foundation and using the same to grab property.
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- Mr. Stephen Kasozi Muwambi is a seasoned crime investigative writer, majoring in judicial-based stories. His two decades’ experience as a senior investigative journalist has made him one of the best to reckon on in Uganda. He can also be reached via [email protected]
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