No-Nonsense Col.Nakalema Arrests City Lawyer Over UGX 150M Fraud, Charged, Remanded!

No-Nonsense Col.Nakalema Arrests City Lawyer Over UGX 150M Fraud, Charged, Remanded!

By Spy Uganda

Kampala: On Tuesday Col Edith Nakalema’s State House Anti-Corruption Unit in liaison with Uganda Police arrested city lawyer Lukungu Musa over an alleged fraud of UGX150M in fraudulent land transaction.

Lukungu was today Wednesday arraigned in KCCA Magistrates court before Magistrate Tumuhimbise Valeria and read charges of receiving money by false pretense among other charges, before he was remanded to Kitalya prisons till January 7 2022 when he will return to court.

According to Nakalema’s Anti Corruption Unit, Lukungu and others fraudulently sold at UGX150M, land comprised in Kyadondo block 917, plot 257 in Munyonyo belonging to Opio George to Othieno Clement.

The suspect Lukungu Musa, a lawyer working with FX Ogwada Advocates used this law firm to initiate a fictitious suit in the commercial court against Opio George claiming that he had sold plot 257, Block 917 to them in Munyonyo but had refused to hand over the land title.

They fraudulently used the Court system and obtained court orders and sold Opio’s land to a one Othieno Clement at Sh.150 million.

In this case, Lukungu Musa served as an attorney of the purported claimant Lutaaya Godfrey, who in the fraud process used a different name, Bwanika Deogratius.

It is when Othieno attempted to develop the land he had purchased that Opio George surfaced and revealed that he had never sold the land to anyone and had no information of any existing suit.

He made his submission to Commercial Court and reversed the entire process, Opio regained his land though Othieno who lost his money to the fraudsters.

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