Court to rule on Meddie Ssentongo''s properties

Apr 04, 2015

DAVID Greenhalgh claims that Meddie Ssentongo obtained the properties by use of the money stolen by his former lover Shanita Namuyimbwa popularly known as Bad Black

By Farooq Kasule

 

THE Civil Court has set April 8 to make its ruling on whether the city businessman Meddie Ssentongo can reclaim his properties.

 

Ssentongo filed the case at the Kampala High Court division in an effort to regain his properties that were awarded to a foreigner David Greenhalgh.

 

Greenhalgh claims that Ssentongo obtained the properties by use of the money stolen by his former lover Shanita Namuyimbwa popularly known as Bad Black.

 

For over three years, Ssentongo has been waiting to see whether he will regain his 107 properties.

 

The properties were seized on the court’s orders after the duo were convicted for stealing Greenhalgh’s money totaling to over sh1b.

 

The money was meant for investment in the country through Greenhalgh’s company of Daveshan Development Uganda Limited.

 

Properties that Ssentongo is trying to reclaim include houses, land in Kampala, Entebbe, Mukono, Wakiso and Masaka.

 

Others are five the bank accounts in Uganda and South Africa, properties in Chicago, over four vehicles and a flat in the United Kingdom all of which were confiscated by Greenhalgh on the court’s orders.

 

The vehicles include a Range Rover Sport UAN 300D and UAO 838L, UAR 727Q 2005 model, BMW X6 UAP 304, and three Ford pickup trucks plus a Mercedes Benz.

 

The duo was convicted by Justice Catherine Bamugemeire in 2012 after a drawn out court battle.

 

While convicting Bad Black and Ssentongo, Justice Bamugemeire said that “the funds were unlawfully withdrawn and stolen from the company account by Namuyimbwa, a director of Daveshan without any authority and consulting the owner of the company”.

 

Justice Bamugemereire said she mostly relied on the evidence of Ponsiano Kaweesa of Peekay Steve Associates, a private audit firm, who testified about what he called a financial relationship between the two convicts.

 

Ssentongo served eighteen months at Luzira Prison and was later released after the end of his sentence while Bad Black is still serving her sentence.

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