Date: [July 9th, 2025]
The Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court has convicted Mr. Ssegujja Hassan, who was facing charges of forgery and conspiracy to commit a felony, after he entered into a plea bargain agreement with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP).
Ssegujja pleaded guilty to all three counts and was convicted accordingly. Each count carries a penalty of either a UGX 1.5 million fine or two years’ imprisonment.
As part of the plea bargain, Ssegujja agreed to testify against his co-accused, Mr. David Balondemu, a prominent city lawyer and Chairperson of the Kampala City Land Board.
In his testimony, Ssegujja admitted to assisting Balondemu in fraudulently forging medical documents intended to support a bail application in a case where Balondemu is charged with obtaining over UGX 2.2 billion by false pretenses and conspiring to defraud an American company.
He further revealed that Balondemu had defrauded him of UGX 10 million, falsely promising to shield him from arrest and prosecution by SH-ACU and the ODPP.
Ssegujja’s revelations also exposed how Balondemu has, on many occasions, maligned investigators and prosecutors with unsubstantiated allegations of corruption, but it is now turning out that he is the one who thrives on such false promises, using the names of the investigators and prosecutors.