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A city businesswoman who was charged with forgery over land worth shillings 500 million, has been freed on bail.

Annet Ndagire was on April 16, 2024, charged at the Nakasero-based Anti-Corruption Court before Chief Magistrate Joan Aciro with seven counts of forgery. However, she was granted bail on April 23, 2024, after she presented three sureties.

Aciro released Ndagire on a cash bail of shillings five million and his three sureties are to execute a noncash bond of shillings 100 million each.

The magistrate stated that if Ndagire absconds her trial, the sureties will be compelled to pay shillings 100 million or face six months in jail. 

Charges

The offences are in connection to land comprised in Block 392 Plot 23 Sekiunga Musaale, Busiro in Wakiso district.

Ndagire, only identified as a businesswoman, was charged alongside Pamela Musiimire, a businesswoman residing in Kitala Kajjansi in Wakisio district and assistant registration officer at the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) Loyce Kiconco. Kiconco was charged before the court on March 13, 2024. Kicoco and Musiimire are out on bail.

It is alleged that Ndagire and Dalausi Kabogoza, a businessman residing in Munyonyo, Kampala, between February and September 2021 in Kampala and Wakiso district forged a Power of Attorney dated February 15, 2021, claiming that it was signed by Mary Grace Deppler Nandawula as a donor and Paulino Ssedduge as a Donee whereas not.

The prosecution further alleged that Ndagire and Kabogoza between February and September 2021 in Kampala and Wakiso to defraud forged a Power of Attorney on February 15, 2021, purporting that the Power of Attorney was commissioned and signed by Alexio Makorongo Ayebazibwe whereas not.

Furthermore, the prosecution led by chief state attorney Nelly Asiku alleges that Ndagire and Kabogoza between February and September 2021 forged a Power of Attorney claiming to have been drafted by Noella and Company Advocates.

Additionally, the prosecution alleges that Ndagire and Kabogoza between February and September 2021 uttered a fake Power of Attorney to the office of the Uganda Registration Service Bureau (URSB) purporting to have been signed Nandawula as Donor and Ssedduge as a Donee whereas not

Prosecution’s case

The prosecution alleges that Ndagire and Kabogoza 2021 in Kampala and Wakiso district forged a land sale agreement dated February 23, 2021, purporting to have been signed by Ssedduge as a seller and that they as buyers of the land comprised in Block 392, Plot 23 Sekiunga Musaale, Busiro, in Wakiso district.

According to the prosecution, Ndagire and Kabogoza with intent to defraud, forged a document claiming it was an acknowledgment deed and that it was signed by Ssedduge as payment of shillings 500 million for the land comprised in Block 392, Plot 23 Sekiunga Musaale, Busiro, in Wakiso district.

Musimiire was charged with forgery of a notice and conspiracy to defraud. It is alleged that Musimiire forged a notice purporting to have been signed by Nandawula stopping encroachers on the land comprised in Block 392, Plot 23 Sekiunga Musaale, Busiro, in Wakiso district. She is also accused of conspiring with others to defraud Nandawula. All the accused denied the charges.