Justine Nameere remanded over sh55m debt

Former television personality Justine Nameere has been sent to prison for six months after failing to pay a sh55m debt to businessman Emmanuel Muwonge.

Nameere, also the daughter to agriculture minister Vincent Bamulanzeki Ssempijja, was on Thursday remanded by execution and bailiff's High Court registrar, Flavia Nabakooza.

"You are hereby commanded and required to take and receive Nameere into the civil prison and keep her imprisoned for a period of six months or until she pays the debt," Nabakooza ordered.  

Court documents indicate that Nameere sold to Muwonge a Mercedes Benz worth sh55m yet she had placed it as security at Platinum Credits.

Muwonge demanded that Nameere refund his money and she accepted to pay the money in February this year in vain.

"We carried out investigations and found that she had many cases and so we decided to deploy people at different Police stations with her picture so that she can be arrested," Muwonge's lawyer Allan Tumwesigye said.

Her husband, Raymond Kagimba Mugimba, 38, the head of sales and marketing at Buganda Broadcasting Services (BBS) Television was remanded on Friday for allegedly uttering an introduction letter for a loan, purportedly signed by Vision Group senior advertising manager Harriet Mpora, to Uganda Micro Foundation Limited.