{"id":77570,"date":"2024-10-24T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=77570"},"modified":"2024-10-24T13:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T10:00:33","slug":"kampala-land-boss-granted-bail-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/kampala-land-boss-granted-bail-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kampala land boss granted bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kampala District Land Board Chairperson, Mr. David Balondemu, has been granted bail by the Buganda Road Magistrates Court after being charged with forgery.<\/p>\n<p>He was ordered to pay a cash bail of Shs5 million and his sureties, including his wife, sister, and brother-in-law, were each ordered to execute a non-cash bond of Shs 20 million. Additionally, Balondemu must surrender his passport to the court and refrain from traveling outside the country without prior court approval.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I therefore find that the accused person possibly did not read the summons and therefore did not deliberately refuse to honor the said summons,&#8221; the trial magistrate, Ronald Kayizzi said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Balondemu has been in custody at Luzira Prison since October 15, 2024. He is facing charges jointly with a medical doctor attached to Mulago Hospital, Mr. Hassan Segujja, who is currently wanted by the court.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecution, Dr. Segujja, in collusion with others, forged a prescription medical form in 2023, falsely indicating that Balondemu was a patient at Kampala Hospital. The forged prescription form and CT scan were allegedly created between June 12 and November 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>These documents were presented to the Buganda Road Court as evidence to secure Balondemu&#8217;s bail in a previous case where he was accused of obtaining over US Dollars 50,000 from KG Unlimited LLC under false pretenses.<\/p>\n<p>The case has been scheduled for hearing on November 26, 2024, and the warrant of arrest against Dr. Segujja has been extended to the same date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kampala District Land Board Chairperson, Mr. David Balondemu, has been granted bail by the Buganda Road Magistrates Court after being charged with forgery. He was ordered to pay a cash bail of Shs5 million and his sureties, including his wife, sister, and brother-in-law, were each ordered to execute a non-cash bond of Shs 20 million. Additionally, Balondemu must surrender his passport to the court and refrain from traveling outside the country without prior court approval. &#8220;I therefore find that the accused person possibly did not read the summons and therefore did not deliberately refuse to honor the said summons,&#8221; the trial magistrate, Ronald Kayizzi said on Thursday. Balondemu has been in custody at Luzira Prison since October 15, 2024. 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