State House Anti-corruption Unit together Uganda Police Force on Thursday arraigned Hakim Bigomba, Kenneth Nsubuga Sebagayunga, Zahura Shamim and Musa Lukungu at Mukono Magistrates Court on charges of fraudulent procurement of certificate of title, forgery, uttering a false document and conspiracy to commit a felony.
They were arrested over allegedly procuring of certificate of title and forging documents for purchase of 28-arce land in Mukono.
The said land belongs to the family of the late Sarah Mulira. The suspects and others still at large allegedly committed the offence on 11/8/2021.
During the investigations it was understood that Sarah Rosemary Mulira died in June 2020 and left property among them Block 191 plot 275 kyagwr land at gwanya, kinga, kapeke in Mukono and Nsike ndeeba Lubaga.
On 11/8/2020 the suspects Namuddu Harriet Kibuuka, John Brian Menya and Arthur Mwime fraudulently transfered the above land of Mukono into their names.
They wanted to use it to secure a loan of 4Billion from Legacy Credit Ltd. The institution sent a surveyor to open boundaries of the land and the relatives of the late discovered the fraud.
The suspects presented a purported sales agreement allegedly signed by sarah Mulira but the signature was forged.
They claimed to have paid 800,000 USD at once to the late at Mukono and later paid instalments to make a Total of USD 1,534,246.
The suspects connived with a Lawyer Keneth Nsubuga Sebagayunga of Mukono to make the agreement and backdated it.
The agreement was witnessed by Gastavas Kiwanuka for the vendor yet he is a boy friend to the suspect Namuddu.
Joel Mukasa and Jovan Mukuumi witnessed for the suspects on the said forged agreement.
On the other hand, the suspects created another person Hakim Bigomba who also claimed to have purchased 8 acres of land out of the same land from the same late Sarah Mulira in February 2021.
He also claimed to have paid ugx 800,000,000/= to sarah Mulira at Mukono.
He also connived with a Lawyer Zahura Shamim of Mukono to make the purported sales agreement which similary have a forged signature of the late sarah Mulira.
The suspects have never held accounts with money close to the sums claimed to have been paid to sarah Mulira.
Hakim Bigomba and Zahura Shamim sued the first suspects in Mukono High Court for purposes of entering a consent Judgement to use court to legalise their fraud.
Onother Lawyer Lukungu connived with the suspects to pursue court process and was on the same piece of land when they claimed to be owners.
The suspects have since gone into hiding save for the three Nsubuga Keneth, Bigomba Hakim and Zahura Shamim who were re arrested and Namuddu who is on remand at Kigo prison on other similar charges in Kira Court.
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