Rugiirwa, son of the late Honorary Consul of Pakistan, H.E. Prof. Boney Mwebesa Katatumba, and brother to the celebrated singer Angella Katatumba, found himself at the mercy of Rajiv Ruparelia, the son of business magnate Sudhir Ruparelia. The bond between the Katatumbas and Ruparelias, once thought unbreakable, was put to the test—and failed spectacularly.

A Friendship Betrayed

It all began in 2019 when Rugiirwa approached Prime Finance Ltd., a company owned and managed by Rajiv Ruparelia, for a loan of UGX 60 million. The loan was intended to fund the construction of Katatumba Village, a real estate project on Ggaba Road. As collateral, Rugiirwa handed over the logbook of, and his prized possession, a Mercedes-Benz S-Class with private plates reading “RUGIIRWA.”

Initially, the arrangement seemed straightforward. Rugiirwa managed to pay off 30% of the loan before the world was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, which upended lives and livelihoods. Despite the catastrophic impact of the pandemic, Rugiirwa remained optimistic, believing that his long-standing friendship with the Ruparelia family would allow for some leniency or understanding in these unprecedented times.

But instead of sympathy, Rugiirwa was met with cold indifference. On January 26, 2021, he was arrested and thrown into Kitalya Prison, accused of “obtaining credit by false pretense.” The arrest was swift and brutal, with the once-prominent businessman treated like a common criminal. The charges, brought forth by Prime Finance Ltd., were as murky as they were baseless.

Justice Prevails, but at What Cost?

For nearly four years, Rugiirwa was dragged through the legal system, forced to defend his honor against what he describes as “malicious prosecution.” His courtroom battles were long and grueling, but ultimately, justice was on his side. On July 24, 2024, Her Worship Jalia Bassajjabalaba delivered a resounding ruling in Rugiirwa’s favor. The court acquitted him of all charges and ordered Prime Finance to return his detained Mercedes-Benz.

Despite this victory, the damage was already done. The betrayal by the Ruparelias left Rugiirwa feeling deeply hurt and disillusioned. What was once a close-knit friendship had now been irreparably fractured.

The Legal Battle Continues

The story doesn’t end with Rugiirwa’s acquittal. Feeling wronged and humiliated, he has now decided to fight back. Through his lawyer, Counsel Julius Turinawe, he is suing the Ruparelias and the State for UGX 5 billion in damages, citing malicious prosecution and defamation.

This new legal battle promises to be just as intense as the one before it. Rugiirwa is determined to clear his name and seek retribution for the trauma he endured. Whether this lawsuit will bring closure or further fuel the animosity between the two families remains to be seen.

A Cautionary Tale

This saga serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of mixing business with personal relationships, especially in high society. The story of Rugiirwa Katatumba and Rajiv Ruparelia is a stark reminder that trust, once broken, can lead to catastrophic consequences. For Rugiirwa, the ordeal has been a painful awakening to the harsh realities of life, where even those closest to you can become your greatest adversaries.

One of these Indians is a former President of the Indian Community. The second one once served as a Minister in one of the monarchies in Uganda, while the third one has a huge presence in the manufacturing of essential household goods. Commenting about the verdict, the trio called it a vindication of their community in Uganda, since Sudhir’s arguably dubious dealings, had been for a long time negatively interpreted by majority of Ugandans, to appear as if all of them are crooks.

“That one was a very nice piece of verdict. The same is good news to many of the rest of us innocent Asians who have been scandalized for so long, by his unbecoming conduct. We are relieved and feel vindicated,” is how these Asians have welcomed the verdict delivered by Justice QC Telling. These men, who have struggled to make clean wealthy on top of abiding by the laws of the host country, warn that should Sudhir and his ilk do not stop engaging in questionable schemes against Ugandans, another `Amin` might take up power in future and end up ejecting all of them out of the country, regardless of their non-involvement into such.

“At that point in time, God forbid, every one of us including those who are innocent, will suffer merely because a few bad apples in the basket would have spoilt all of us `apples`”, one them asserts. These respectable members of the Indian Community in Uganda go ahead and point out some of the dubious dealings which have been engaged in by some of their members, such as claiming properties which the deceitful claimants involved have never, ever at all, owned before the expulsion of the Asian in 1972, land grabbing and encroaching  on wetlands.

“Let this judgement serve as a rude reminder to all our people to avoid engaging in schemes which are criminal in nature, and which negatively impact the Ugandan State,” another one counseled. The trio, in separate interviews, note that whoever Asian was around and witnessed the untold suffering which the members of the community went through following their expulsion by Amin, should think thrice before antagonizing the Ugandan State and her people. This is because such provocation doesn’t sit well with majority of Ugandans and their leaders.

“Let us therefore conduct ourselves lawfully and responsibly, with a high degree of dignity and respect in order to escape the curse of expulsion again,” these exemplary members of the Indian community, counseled. They wound up by advising their own to each and every one of them strictly avoid being attempted by the greed for money and material things, to stupidly rock the boat in which they happen to be sailing together.

The Genesis

Sudhir had sued Bank of Uganda (BoU) in London, questioning the closure of his Crane Bank (CB) and passing the same to Dfcu bank. He had asked for more than UGX800Bn, saying that the Central Bank’s sale of Crane Bank to Dfcu had been tainted by corruption.

Yet Sudhir himself had run down CB by extracting billions of cash from the financial institution. He had owned up to the sleaze and committed in writing, to refund the stolen funds. But he later turned around, as obviously expected of him, to disown the confession.

BoU had sued Sudhir to have him cough up the proceeds of the sleaze plus the billions which the Central Bank had spent to try to recapitalize the bank but which, was again looted and which two crimes, the businessman himself had owned up to, and he himself committed to atone for, only to thereafter, disown such confession, via alleged breach of confidentiality against BoU. He had requested the Central Bank to keep his confession a `top secret`. But trust the mighty Investigator. We burst the story!

All the concerned courts in Uganda had backed Sudhir to get away with the sleaze, arguing that it was illegal for BoU to sue the businessman through the defunct CB, to recover the funds he himself had looted and he himself had committed to pay back. But the London Court has since turned the tables on Sudhir and by extension, the Ugandan Judges. This stance, by refusing to kowtow to the businessman’s schemes of looting the country out of an extra UGX800Bn which, our judges had previously gifted him with another UGX200Bn for may be, properly looting Crane bank to its grave! The Court in London ruled that what Bank of Uganda did by closing Crane Bank and selling it to Dfcu was legit and so, as a foreign court, there was no way they could interfere into the affairs of a sovereign State agency.

Speke Hotel used to be owned by an Asian known as Ferroz Kassam and others. Apart from being one amongst the biggest original owners of Speke Hotel, Ferroz owns Kob House too. Kob House is located along Bombo Road. The complex lies adjacent to Karim Hirji’s Equatorial Hotel and overlooks Pastor Garry Skinner’s Watoto Main Church Complex across and opposite the other Bombo Road tarmac. Sudhir’s acquisition of Speke hotel is debatably covered in deceit. How? 

Ferroz himself had duly placed a caveat on the facility. The original owner had smelt mischief. The same mischief was supposedly being masterminded by Sudhir. For this reason, Ferroz thought it prudent to move to the Land Titles’ Registry where he duly secured the caveat. He was, of course, taking such a measure in order to preserve the original ownership of the property. That legal process done and dusted, Ferroz now went away thinking that, now that the caveat was in place, there was no way any unscrupulous person, nor any other entity, for that matter, was going to be able to deal with the property let alone altering it to third parties.

But Uganda being Uganda, and as it turned out there after, the Attorney General of the day, Joseph Ekemu, would secretly remove the same caveat from the Hotel facility. The same development by the Attorney General would end up handing Sudhir the much-needed opportunity to now reportedly alter the hotel to himself. Oddly, and perhaps as a pointer to the deceit which had been involved in this transaction, the rather respectable Attorney General would go ahead and remove the caveat on a non-working day. That day happened to be a Saturday!

Please kindly mark here that what happened to the caveats that had been placed over Speke Hotel to stop alternation of Ferroz’s ownership of the same, is exactly the same which would happen years much later, in the case of Ssimbamannyo building and Afrique Suites.  Just as it would turn out in the case of Speke Hotel, the architect of the removal of the caveats and the beneficiary thereof in the case of the ongoing Ssimbamannyo and Afrique Suites is one and only SUDHIR RUPARELIA. 

Perhaps as a result of this glaring bad faith on his part, Ekemu wound wind up as a disgraced Attorney General after being arrested, prosecuted and jailed. The former AG had been arrested for swindling money which the government had released for the benefit of his kindreds back home in Teso, the Eastern part of the country. Ferroz would try to fight off the impropriety in the courts. But as usual, Sudhir would apply the legal doctrine of the Bonafide purchaser for valuer without knowledge of impropriety, to defeat Ferroz’s big stake in the multi-billion property.

Betrayed and frustrated by the country’s legal system, Ferroz would thus pack up, just like Somani in the case of Baumann House, and leave behind Uganda and its unjust laws. He has since set up shop in the neighboring Tanzania and without any sign that he would ever return to invest in Uganda. Apart from picking rent from Kob House and swiftly repatriating the same out of the country. And just like in the case of Baumann House, Sudhir has been collecting huge proceeds from the hotel business at Speke Hotel as Ferroz, on the other hand, continues to curse Uganda and its unjust laws. Keep watching this space we are going to revert soon with more of this kind of impropriety. 

Equity Bank’s lawyer, Sim Katende, who was heavily involved in the impugned deals, had last week, been sent away on account of having turned up in court without the emails. He then, was tasked to strictly return with them. Katende instead frown upon such clear court directives by now going to the Inspector of Courts. 

The Inspector of Courts (IC), Hon. Justice Rubby Aweri Opio, indeed wrote a calling letter to Justice Mubiru,directing him to surrender the file on the way to suspiciously passing it on to another friendly Judge who would then end up by, most likely, doing as Sudhir and Equity Bank desire. “Under Sections 9 and 11 of the Administration of the Judiciary Act, 2020, I am writing to immediately call for the entire file of [the case] and all other Misc. Applications arising thereunder for our perusal as a matter of urgency,” read the letter in part, whose author is also a Judge of Supreme Court.  

It is this letter, as written by the IC, which Katende would now come back and recklessly wave to the judge in the hope that, he was going to now feel threatened and, actually do as the inspector had desired him to do.But trust Justice Mubiru. He started off by giving Katende a washing down. And then, went on to dismiss the entire application in which Equity and Sudhir had now sought to use to appeal against the production of the impugned emails, plus, the other information relating to the dubious transactions which had transpired between Sudhir and Equity, and which, are relevant to unlock this saga one way or the other. And trust Mubiru further. The dismissal came along with costs. 

Briefly, Equity sold off the two high-end properties erected by Arch Peter Kamya. Yes, Kamya had failed to return the loans which he had borrowed from the bank. But he had not only set in motion, an appeal process against such auction, but the same had been concluded in an irregular and dubious manner. First, what was paraded as a public auction and, Equity actually advertised the same calling for the prospective buyers, instead turned out to be a secret and deceitful deal. Sudhir was contacted secretly by Equity’s lawyer, Sim Katende via email on October 1, 2020 vending the properties. 

Sudhir`s lawyers would respond positively by wiring a deposit of USD1M, out of the USD5M of the purchase price, to the accounts of the lawyers of Equity. This was happening a week to the date which had been clearly given by Equity Bank, to sell the properties under review. Instead of being retained by the bank, USD700,000, out of Sudhir’s USD1M deposit, was paid to a stranger in Ronald Luwangula who was now presented as the buyer of Afrique Suites whereas not. The properties were then dubiously converted to Meera Investments and Luwaluwa Investments Limited in only a matter of hours, and also caveated as so.

But so much for the purchasers and the bank who were having nothing to hide about the impugned deals.These are the data which Justice Mubiru seeks to be produced to court and which, Equity and Sudhir excusably, are unwilling to make known. And so, the ongoing fishy moves of taking the file away from Mubiru.We shall be high up on the radar to capture and relay to the world whatever will be going on around this saga.In the meantime, we understand that Sim Katende is trotting to the Court of Appeal, to again challenge Mubiru`s judgement. Watch this space…

On Sunday, this investigative website dropped the story about the supposed missing USD10M which, businessman Patrick Bitature had paid in settlement of his debts with Crane bank. According to our investigations, someone is believed to have pocketed this particular money instead of paying it back to Crane Bank. We hold this stance, since the DFCU bank which purchased Crane Bank, is known again, to be pursuing Bitature in courts over the same debt!

Following our expose, a number of people and companies have contacted us to complain about how they had actually paid off their debts with Crane Bank, but that DFCU is still demanding the same from them! When we got in contact with DFCU sources, they confirmed how they have been experiencing such glitches, but refused to divulge more details, fearing to offend the law which bars litigants from discussing cases before courts.

If it is true that Sudhir or his agents picked money, as it is being alleged, and even diverted it, then Bank of Uganda itself would be understandably, in trouble. This is because it is Bank of Uganda that sold the same debts to DFCU. Problem now is that DFCU cannot realize the debts, for the simple reason that the debtors paid off the same. Yet the same money is neither here nor there.

“What I can tell you is that Bank of Uganda would be liable even if they mistakenly sold air to DFCU as debts,” a senior commercial lawyer confided in us. The lawyer explained to us that since DFCU took over the debts in the mistaken belief that Bank of Uganda`s sale of Crane Bank was actually genuine, for that matter, it is the vendor legally supposed to sort out the purchaser.

The legal brain says that DFCU cannot hold Sudhir liable, for they never bought Crane Bank from Sudhir. The vendor was Central Bank who convinced them how everything about the sale was just and fine. The remedy available to Bank of Uganda, the lawyer states, would be to demand a refund from Sudhir, but after sorting out DFCU. It`s now public knowledge that Sudhir wholly owned Crane Bank via proxies.

This isn’t going to be the first time for Bank of Uganda to find itself in this kind of dilemma involving the man in question. They sold 48 buildings thinking that they were being owned by Crane Bank. Indeed, DFCU bought them along with Crane Bank. It would later emerge that Sudhir had controversially transferred the same buildings to his other company known as Meera. Sudhir did this after realizing that Crane Bank had reached a point of no return to required liquidity levels.

DFCU, thinking that they had made a good purchase, went ahead and occupied both the first floor and seventh floor of Crane Chambers. Sudhir initially let them be. But he later sent a demand notice for outstanding rent amounting to big monies in dollars! The purchasers of Crane Bank wrote bank to Sudhir telling him how Bank of Uganda had sold Crane Bank complete with the buildings which used to house her branches.

The shrewd, unbothered businessman wrote back asking DFCU to pay or pack up and leave the facilities for other tenants with dimes! DFCU snubbed the notice, Sudhir went to court. DFCU would later realize the bitter fact that Bank of Uganda had actually sold air to them. The buyer has since written to the Central Bank asking for billions in buildings over which, they scorched money under the mistaken belief that they were actually making a good purchase. 

What we are yet to confirm is whether Bank of Uganda finally compensated DFCU or not. 

But the regulator agreed to lend Sudhir about UGX80Bn on condition that he was vested with capacity and the will to repay the taxpayer’s money. The central bank’s director of banking, Ben Ssekabaka told COSASE committee in 2016 how Sudhir would frustrate their efforts to save Crane Bank by presenting forged documents regarding the securities he wanted to use to secure the taxpayer’s funds.

We have been informed by highly placed sources that after learning that Sudhir wasn’t interested in reviving his bank after realizing that it would become a straw on his other businesses, Bank of Uganda elected to initially, deny him the money. But understandably, he somehow managed to convince them into releasing it. The money which Bank of Uganda gave to Sudhir to revive his own bank, have since been declared as a loss after it also got missing from Crane Bank.

This was after Sudhir, in spite of the fact that he wrote an agreement to pay back the money, turned around and used the courts of law which declared the enormous debts to be invalid and at the same time, compensated the businessman via legal costs!

Bitature 

Under the cover of saving Crane Bank, Sudhir went ahead and sued its debtors. For our interest, businessman Patrick Bitature would suffice. Sudhir took the lawsuit to the commercial section of the commercial court. Aware that Sudhir is a ruthless man and given the fact that he was threatening to seize his business empire, if we are to believe the exclusive story carried by the Monitor of May 28, Bitature shopped for the money to cleare the debt. According to the Monitor newspaper, Bitature used the money loaned to him by the South Africans, to sort out Sudhir. Yet what is confusing is the fact that the funds are neither here nor there.

Food for thought

To start with, DFCU, which purchased Crane Bank is understood to be still pursuing Bitature for the same funds. This would somewhat mean that Sudhir never put the money in the accounts of Crane Bank, but that he possibly pocketed the same himself! Sources within DFCU declined to talk to this website. They reasoned that the matters are in courts of law and so, didn’t want to offend the sub-judice law. Yet they still helped us to learn that the matters are still in court. 

This would possibly mean that the refund wasn’t banked with Crane Bank which is why DFCU inherited it and wants to recover the money. But the fact that Bank of Uganda have gone on record to accuse Sudhir of using fake companies and proxies to borrow money from Crane bank and later wrote off those funds, would suggest that the man is capable of doing anything including receiving money on behalf of Crane Bank and pocketing it.

Evidence has been led by Bank of Uganda to suggest that Sudhir actually was the one running Crane Bank behind the curtains and as such, doing as he wished. He managed to do this by supposedly owning almost the entire bank only that he did this by using proxies. This can lend credence to the fact that one of such rented shareholders in respected banker, Karia, based in Nairobi, has since owned up.

The file of Sapphire, a company which Sudhir had hitherto stated was domiciled offshores, shortly after Crane Bank had been shut down, mysteriously went missing from the registrar of companies office. The timing of the disappearance of the file is telling. This is because Bank of Uganda had hired external auditors to carry out a forensic audit of the extent of the loot that went on at Crane Bank before its closure.That the auditors required all the files in this case touching on the shareholding of Crane Bank, could have scared someone and they dashed to cause the disappearance of the same.

Missed Opportunity

The extent to which Sudhir and his family members supposedly looted Crane Bank and thereby caused its demise, we shall never know. This is because, Sudhir fought vigorously and made sure that no full court hearing happened in this affair.

Missed opportunity

If the court hearing had taken place, the country would have been accorded an opportunity to get to know whether Sudhir and his family members actually received back debts such as this one repaid by Bitature on behalf of Crane Bank. And whether, if at all, they went ahead and banked the money on the Crane Bank’s account or, kept it.

Much as Sudhir survived the process of giving full accountability for what killed Crane Bank, he remains a haunted man given the fact that he denied himself and his family members an opportunity to clear themselves. In effect, what the courts of law did was to hand Sudhir and his family justice devoid of full accountability which is double edged by the reason that the public court still holds them culpable for the reason that they never cleared themselves.

The DPP did so by requesting the Magistrate`s Court in Entebbe for permission to prosecute the case on Mabirizi’s behalf. Sudhir had, supposedly upon learning about the summons requiring his son to appear in court, contacted the DPP to block Rajiv’s prosecution. 

This is how the DPP intrigued to take over the case under the cover of prosecuting it on behalf of the complainant who has never expressed any kind of inability to do so himself.

While the DPP was thus posturing, we reported how the DPP isn’t interested in prosecuting the matter. The truth of the matter, she merely wants to get it and drop it, as she has been doing previously, in cases involving Sudhir and other wealthy colleagues and the politically connected.

Much the same, we covenanted to disclose all the dirt surrounding this saga now that the DPP and Sudhir had conspired to sweep the matter under the rug. Here we go:

Towards the end of last year, Sudhir embarked on levelling and grading land at Kitubulu, in Katabi Sub County along Entebbe Road to pave way for construction of a hotel, reportedly billed to cost UGX355bn.

Just as he did whilst constructing Speke Resort Munyonnyo and planting rose flowers in Namulanda along Entebbe Highway, Sudhir poured trucks upon trucks into the shores of Lake Victoria in Kitubulu, in order to cunningly acquire additional land to extend the facility into.

But as his hired trucks were busier ferrying and emptying soil into the shores, unware that anyone was watching, one heroic lady was as well busier filming what was going on. Her name is Mary Assumpta Nakamya aka Maama Nalubaale. Nakamya would upon filming the saga, keep posting the photos on her social media pages. Lake Victoria, also known as  Nalubaale, is Africa’s largest lake, and the world’s second largest fresh water lake

The graphic photos infuriated Ugandans present on social media. Members of public demanded the authorities to rein in on the criminality. This is how the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) finally stopped watching by, and stepped out while pretending not to know what had been going on.

NEMA sent officials at the scene who upon seizing the trucks, directed Sudhir’s son, Rajiv to undo the mess by removing the heaps of soil from the shores of the lake. Sudhir shamelessly sent Rajiv on a face-saving mission. 

Rajiv called the willing media, including their many `arm-pit` websites, whom he told, Asumpta had posted the photos to extort money from them. This allegation, for a woman who had not sought them out in the first place, asking for bribes to keep the photos unposted!

“It, as well baffles for someone to brag about having been stopped from committing a crime simply because they failed to bribe the whistleblower! What kind of reasoning from a supposed responsible Ugandan?” wondered James Baliluno, an opinion leader in Entebbe. 

Rajiv went on to claim without evidence, how the super woman isn’t a resident of Entebbe. Yet Nakamya was at one time one of the Councilors in Entebbe Municipality! And this posture, as if any Ugandan regardless of where they stay or hails from, isn’t enjoined to protect the natural treasure from degradation! And again, as if, the same man hadn’t agreed before a meeting with NEMA, to clean the mess!

About Nakamya: (Additional report sourced from Uganda Radio Network)

Maria Assumpta Nakamya alias Mama Nalubaale has vowed to fight the degrading of Lake Victoria along its shores on Entebbe Road. The Lake is Africa’s largest and the world’s second largest fresh water lake. 

But the same is vulnerable to degradation because it is shallow, with a maximum depth of only 84 metres measured several decades ago before silting. Kenya has the deepest part of the lake while it’s shorelines are generally shallower in Uganda and Tanzania. Lake Victoria dries up every 10,000 years.

Nakamya is determined to save the lake from pollution resulting from discharge of untreated sewerage, dumping of chemicals, soil and other substances that could affect aquatic life and water quality.
Nakamya’s budding fame as “Mama Nalubaale” started growing recently after she recorded and released videos and photos of Sudhir`s trucks dumping soil into the lake shore at Kitubulu. 

According to NEMA, Sudhir`s Ruparelia Group acquired a permit to build a hotel where Ssese Gateway Beach was previously located with condition of maintaining the buffer zone of 100metres as stipulated in the National Environment Act, 2019. Speke Hotel, according to it’s manager Rajiv Ruparelia, wants to construct a resort and convention centre on Lake Victoria shores in Kitubulu. The project was by the time of NEMA halting it, at  the stage of ground leveling and construction.

NEMA halted the project after inspecting the site prompted by Nakamya’s video. NEMA on December 15 directed Speke Hotel to remove all the soil dumped into or on the fringes of the lake before  it can resume works. Nakamya however said she will remain vigilant until the developer completes the project within the approved conditions and limits.

Nakamya has been a vocal and active  member of the Democratic Party-DP in Entebbe for  close to two decades. She joined DP in 2004 because it was her father’s political party. “It was also  the only party I grew up hearing about so it was so easy to join it.” says Nakamya, who is currently the Deputy Woman Leader of DP Entebbe Branch.

Nakamya joined elective politics in 2006, aged 23 years, as a female youth councilor at Entebbe Municipal Council and then returned to the same council as  Kiwafu East and Kiwafu West Woman Councillor from 2011 to 2021.

In 2021, she contested for the Entebbe Division B Woman Councillor position at Wakiso district Council but lost. But Nakamya says this  break from elective politics has given her even time to focus on growing her personal businesses including a retail store and continue fighting for social justice and against environment degradation.

It is the reason she is fighting the dumping in Lake Victoria. She, says she took the initiative to visit the Kitubulu site in early December and noted that four heavy dumping trucks would make a daily average of a hundred trips to dump soil in the lake site.

The trucks were collecting soil from Katabi-Busambaga village in Division A, Entebbe municipality. She told some local leaders in Entebbe Division B and Katabi Town Council that these trucks were dumping soil into the lake to “expand” the land. “But these leaders said the developer is untouchable and I got angry,” she said.

“That is why I decided to record and to share the videos. This worked out well because some Ugandans here and abroad, and environmentalists pressurized NEMA to act,” she adds,” She said the campaign however resulted in her receiving insults and death threats. However she says she is no longer afraid of dying for the environment because her life will not be added to that of her killers and they will also die some day.

The 38-year-old politician says her fighting juices are sufficient. She is however  urging  the environment minister Beatrice Anywar alias Mama Mabira, Ugandan citizens, NGOs and  institutions like Buganda Kingdom to join the campaign to save the lake. She reminds indegenous Ugandans that this is the only country they have and they have to fight for its environment from abusers.

Her Background

Nakamya was born in 1983 to Ssalongo  Laurensio Lwanga and Jane Florence Namayanja. She is the fifth among nine children. In 1986, Nakamya attended Tree Shade Nursery School, Entebbe, then went to Sacred Heart Bugonga Primary School from 1987 to 1997 amidst  her parents’ financial challenges with paying school fees for her and her siblings.

She proceeded to Entebbe Parents Secondary School for O’level from 1998 to 2001. Due to financial constraints, she dropped out and instead joined politics. But she finally completed A’ level after enrolling at Entebbe Adult Centre from 2017-2018. “I hope to join university in the near future because learning is a continuous process,” Nakamya says.

We are privileged to reveal all that is there to reveal about this saga where the `mighty` tycoon has jumped into bed with the DPP to gag Mabirizi. In this matter, Sudhir`s son Rajiv Ruparelia stands accused of shamelessly extending the family’s synonymous land-grabbing escapades into Lake Victoria.

Mabirizi says Sudhir’s family, through Rajiv, did what he is accusing them of doing, by dumping  trucks upon trucks of soil into the Lake Victoria at Kitubulu shores. He states the reason why the Sudhirs were turning the lake into a dumping ground. He avers they were looking to dubiously acquire extra land upon which to build an hotel.

Sudhir doesnt want the world to know this and other dirt. Yet Mabirizi is itching to take the witness box and reveal all the litter against the son and the family. So, the wealthy man has since contacted the DPP Jane Frances Abodo`s office to do the needful. And indeed, the DPP has subsequently asked Entebbe trial Magistrate, to hand the case to her.

The DPP told the Magistrate that her office wants to prosecute the case on behalf of Mabirizi. Of course, Mabirizi has never asked the DPP to prosecute his case. In any case, one would ask why is the DPP picking interest in this matter now, yet her office was doing virtually nothing before the patriotic Mabirizi brought the issue to the attention of court! 

So, let the naïve believe the lie, but to those in the know, the DPP wants to save Rajiv from prosecution.Nothing less and or more to that! Indeed, the DPP has previously done as such many times, especially in cases involving the wealthy and highly connected criminal suspects.

In Investigator’s case, for example, the DPP infamously rescued Sudhir from prosecution over hacking into the social media accounts belonging to our CEO, Stanley Ndawula and other staff members. The DPP did so by secretly closing a case file loaded to the brim with water-tight evidence, revealing how the tycoon paid the hackers in this saga. “Close and put away,” she directed the Investigating Officer. 

Certainly, Ndawula is of the unshakable view that he had made the work of the DPP easy by providing necessary evidence, leaving the Temple of Justice with no choice but to reprimand the businessman. He didso by arresting the hackers. The hackers  went on to write statements with the CID at Kibuli via which they totally implicated Sudhir. 

The hackers named Sudhir’s digital Personal Assistant, Ussa Segawa as the one who arranged the deal on behalf of Sudhir. And further, Ussa named Sudhir as the mastermind figure that assigned him the ugly project. The young man had colloborated all the evidence that the hackers had presented against him.

Do you know what? The DPP closed the case file secretly. She didn’t offer any kind of justication to Ndawula or his lawyers, for closing the file in the manner she did. This is not to mention that the lawyers of Muwema and Co. Advocates had kept in touch with her office all the time, seeking to know the process of the investigations!

Watch this space…

Mayanja should watch out. This is because he is joining the anti-land grabbing crusade at a time when colleagues, notably Kampala affairs minister, Kabuye Kyofatogabye, are disappointingly backing the likes of Sudhir to construct on the public land dubiously acquired.

Mayanja stepped out to warn Sudhir while addressing a presser at which he decried the dubious manner in which the tycoon grabbed the public school’s land, going on to shamelessly register it in names of Kampala Parents’ School, a wholly private school owned by the controversial entrepreneur himself!

Mayanja had summoned press corps to reveal to the country how he was going to hand over a total of 400 Land Titles registered on wetlands and public forests, to the State House’s Anti-corruption unit, for thorough investigation and eventual cancelation.

Dr. Mayanja has the eyes and ears of Uganda’s CEO, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Museveni appointed Mayanja to specifically fight and bring an end to the vice of land grabbing masterminded by powerful and wealthy guys to the disadvantage of the weakest and voiceless within society, such as Kololo SS.

All being well, we are expecting the now seemingly fierce and reportedly incorruptible lands minister to deal with the Nile Perches among the land grabbers, instead of concentrating on the silver fish (mukene), the like of his ancestors in the docket used to. 

If the minister fights the vice without fear or favor, and irrespective of whether the person involved is powerful or wealthy, he would go down in history as one of Uganda’s rare breeds of soldiers who helped to bring to a stop, the misery of millions of Ugandans presently being deprived of land merely because they are defenseless and underprivileged to fight back on their own.

Being Mayanja’s dogged pen soldiers, we now, exclusively and fearlessly reveal the key government officials who helped Sudhir on the way of grabbing the Public School’s land, Kololo SS. Read on.

The Accessories

Charles Bakabulindi

The first one is Charles Bakkabulindi. This one was the minister of education in charge of sports at the time Sudhir questioningly leased the school’s 6-acre playground. We know for sure that this man casually gave a vote of no-objection to Sudhir which the businessman used to register himself on the land.

This stance, despite the fact that Bakkabulindi’s senior colleague, Maj. Jessica Alupo, now Vice President, and the ministry’s PS, Xavier Lubanga and successor, Dr Rose Zalwango Lukwago, had frowned and patriotically so, at the comical idea of giving away the school’s playground to an absolutely private school. 

Frank Tumwebaze

We understand Frank Tumwebaze, the Minister of the Presidency at the time, had impressed it upon the Education and Sports ministry how Sudhir’s rather Mafioso idea was too good to be missed! “This is a good idea worth supporting,” Tumwebaze claimed while recommending Sudhir’s idea to be embraced by the relevant ministry.

Joash Mayanja Nkangi

The Late Mzee Joash Mayanja Nkangi, who Sudhir had allegedly taken care of earlier on, was no wonder found to be a willing accomplice when it came to the real time of granting lease on the public land. A self-professed Born Again at the time the lease was granted to Sudhir, Mayanja happened to be the Chairman of the Uganda Land commission (ULC).While ULC is mandated with keeping public land in trustee for Ugandans, the government body has over time grown into a clearing house for dubious public acquisitions by the likes of Sudhir and company. Mayanja should therefore start treating the cancer of grabbing public land by stopping it’s autho

Seconds after, three other cars enter and four plain-clothed detectives jump out of one and head to the reception. They have no time to waste. They are looking for a certain resident. His name is Majed Abass and he resides on fifth floor. It doesn’t take them long to reach him. “You`re under arrest Mr. Majed,” announced the lead detective. 

However, what they had assumed to be a normal operation turned into an uphill task. Majed made frantic calls and before long, a Toyota Harrier carrying someone who later introduced self as the Deputy Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Uganda, pulled up at the entrance. Majed was not going anywhere but at the embassy. He demanded. 

But the no-nonsense detectives were dead serious! They held him by the belt (Jerk style) and threatened to mercilessly pull him through the corridors for all to see, of course at his own peril and discomfiture to the Embassy. There was no option but to give in and hence, him, two detectives and an armed Cop jumped into the embassy car and off, they headed to Kibuli based CID Headquarters where, the I.O was waiting.

The Story

It all started way back in 2018 when, a local labour export Company called ROKAS, entered a deal with that of Abass, called Mayar Almajed Recruitments Office which is located in Nuran, Saudi Arabia. ROKAS is owned by Hon. Derrick Orone, the current Member of Parliament for Gogonyo Constituency in Pallisa District.  

Whereas through ROKAS, Majed`s company had for long exported domestic workers for some years, no record of follow-up on the same is available on the side of ROKAS. However, their luck ran out when, among the group he took in 2018, was a one Martha Apio, a young girl from Pallisa. The last Apio`s people heard of her was when they saw her off at ROKAS offices located in Makindye, a Kampala south city suburb.  

“She was deployed in 2018 but up to now, there has been no communication or whereabouts for this girl… we have put in different efforts for example writing complaint letters to ministries of labour and foreign affairs plus to the Company but in vain. Her contract was supposed to be for two years but it was extended up to now…” a complaint lodged with the CID Director, Maj. Tom Magambo, and authored by a one Shifra Mugabi, reads in part. 

At Kibuli, Majed first denied having ever stepped in Uganda before, and any knowledge of the girl in question. But this stance, without a hint of his passport being a prime witness against his claims. He later said the girl had left his company and switched to another, whose particulars, he failed to avail. 

Magambo binned all the embassy pleas to have him released to them and be produced at any time he would be required. He instead ordered for his detention at Kabalagala Police Station where, some of his friends kept outside at guard up to morning.

The following day (Thursday) several calls exchanged handsets to have Majed released but Magambo sworn upon the living God not to let the Saudi Arabian Tycoon off the hook. “We have intelligence that he took many girls whose whereabouts are unknown for years. We want to use this case to have him laid to justice,” a detective privy with the case intimated.  

If ROKAS entrusted Majed with many girls whose whereabouts are a mystery, why is Apio`s a special case? We posed a question whose answer was simple. Apio is close relatives with Hon. Orone, the owner of ROKAS and hence, he was finding hard times with the entire clan over this girl. With use of Private Investigators, he trailed Majed until when he sneaked into Uganda and booked into his usual home of Bukoto Heights. 

By the time we penned this story on Friday, Majed had suspiciously been released from police and handed over to the embassy. Before this development, a story had been told to us of how Orone himself had tried to convince Magambo to drop the case but the no-nonsense CID boss had jammed to kowtow… Watch this space for more details. 

Human Body Organs trade in Uganda:

The stories of this trade started steaming into society about four years ago, self-driven by Tamale Mirundi, a veteran journalist and former President Museveni`s Spokesman. Tamale first claimed that his daughter, who died while delivering her baby in Albert Cook, Mengo Hospital, had actually been instead killed and her organs extracted. 

He further lined up cases of young girls whose bodies were found dumped around Entebbe areas with their body parts missing. Until recently, Tamale`s allegations have always been dismissed by all concerned government institutions but not the public. Cases of Ugandan domestic workers dying mysteriously at the hands of their employers in Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries started penetrating the social media, giving credence to Tamale`s claims. 

Recently, a Ugandan domestic worker, Judith Nakintu sued and won a case against her boss Saad Dhafer with whom she, on March 20^th 2020, was involved in an accident that saw her hospitalized before her right kidney was removed. The Court, presided over by H.W. Ibrahim Mohammed Hamud Al-Mahyan found Saad guilty before awarding Nakintu a Shs270M compensation. 

Nakintu had gone to Saudi Arabia through a Labour export Company known as Nile Treasure Gate, located in Kiwatule, a Kampala City suburb. After her one year-long hospitalization in Saudi, Nakintu was returned to Kampala but with lots of complications. Upon several checks in Mulago, it was established that she had lost her right kidney to doctors back in Saudi. Ugandans should ignore Tamale`s stories at their own peril…