By KT Reporter
The Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court has adjourned the case in which Kampala District Land Board Chairperson Lawyer David Balondemu and Dr Hassan Ssegujja are accused of forgery of medical documents to May 16th 2025.
The case was adjourned on Thursday after the court hearing, as the prosecutor who is handling this case, Viola Tusingwire was indisposed. However, State Attorney Ivan Kyazze, who is a witness in this case, was present and ready to testify.
Accordingly, the Chief Magistrate, Ronald Kayizzi, adjourned the case to May for him to start the hearing of the case.
Both Balondemu and Dr Ssegujja are out on bail.
Prosecutors allege that Balondemu and Mulago Hospital Dr Hassan Ssegujja, and others still at large in 2023 at Kampala Hospital, knowingly and fraudulently made a false document, a prescription medical form dated November 7th 2023.
It is also alleged that Dr Hassan Ssegujja and lawyer David Balondemu knowingly and fraudulently made a false document, a CT scan medical form dated June 12th 2023, at Kampala Hospital.
Trouble for Balondemu started in 2023 when he was arraigned at Buganda Road Court on charges of conspiring with two others to obtain money by pretence.
The State alleged that Balondemu, two others and others still at large between November 2022 and April 2023, at Bloom Advocates with intent to defraud, obtained US Dollars 553,000 from KG unlimited LLC by falsely pretending that they were going to award it a contract of supplying agricultural drone sprayers and fertilizers from Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries whereas not.
His arraignment at Buganda Road came a few weeks after his release by the City Hall Magistrates Court on charges related to defrauding a Korean Investor in a bogus Gold deal of 2.2 billion shillings.
Although these charges have all since been dismissed for lack of evidence.
However, as he was applying for bail for the file of obtaining money by pretence at Buganda Road Court, Balondemu furnished Grade One Magistrate Winnie Nankya ‘s court documents indicating that he was scheduled for surgery at Kampala Hospital as one of the grounds to seek temporary Freedom from prison.
As a result, the prosecution, which was being represented by Ivan Kyazze on that day, went out to verify the authenticity of the documents .
In his feedback to the Court, Kyazze tendered evidence showing that Balondemu had never been a patient at Kampala Hospital and neither was he scheduled for operation, according to the Kampala Hospital Chief Executive Officer, Dr Peter Kibuuka.
“According to our records, Mr Balondemu has never been a patient at Kampala Hospital. There is no scheduled TURP surgery on November 22nd, 2022, at 8 am for Mr Balondemu as indicated in the letter dated November 7th, 2023.
Therefore, the purported documents dated June 2nd, 2023 and November 7th, 2023, were not authored by Kampala Hospital”, wrote Kibuuka in his letter responding to a request from the Director CID Kibuuli.
Consequently, the prosecutors levied charges of forgery against Balondemu and Dr Ssegujja. The Magistrate Nankya had previously warned Balondemu and his lawyers that he would be charged with forgery, should it be discovered that the medical letters were not genuine-URN. Give us feedback on this story through our email: kamwokyatimes@gmail.com
