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BRAINY DECEITS: Ugandan Top Cons who have earned The Country a Dubious No.2 Position behind Nigeria as Notorious Frauds in the Region of the legendary Mr. Hare and his Associate the Fox
TAHE BATCH: These and others have 'earned' us position No. 2 in conning
Ugandans have earned international notoriety as cons. In fact we are only second to Nigeria in the con game. This is how big we have perfected the bad game. From hiding behind 'Sangomas' to defraud raw South Africans, posing as Pastors to con desperate miracle seekers, selling useless stones as valuable diamonds, gold to showering bazungu with false love in order to con them, we have done it all.
Today we dig out some of our celebrated (is it infamous cons). We are doing this in line with our motto: Without Fear or Favor)
Hajj Nasser Ntege Ssebaggala aka Seya
He made a name as an international conman when the good Presidential Advisor stole US travellers' cheques bank in the 1990's. Done with the theft, Seya banked the documents and sat back to enjoy the benefits of his craftiness.
Aware that you don't mess with Uncle Sam's dollars and get away with it, Seya, which is a street slang for buddy, declared self a persona non grata in America.
It took another seya of sorts, Catherine Naava Nabagesera aka Aisha' well laid trap, for Hajj to land in the hands of the Americans. Aisha, her Islamic name was, when she got married to Seya, told his dear husband that it was Ok for him to go to America. Seya Aisha told seya Ssebaggala that Americans would not arrest him now that he had become a VIP- Mayor of Kampala. We mean the capital city of some damn banana republic answering to the name Uganda!
Ssebaggala bought the lie. And you forgive him. Here was a lawyer and wife, telling a lowly schooled husband that he was safe from the Americans. Which man wouldn't trust a counsel given by a woman he has just married and a learned friend at that one? If you won't, poor Hajj did.
On returning to Uncle Sam's land, Seya fell into the itching fingers of Americans who wasted no time in throwing him into jail. Thanks to Aisha's slyness, Seya had lost his hard fought for mayorship. I think you now get the clear conscious of seyas. They even trap fellow seyas. It does not even matter whether the trapped seyas are their own husbands!
Basket of fake papers
Fresh from the American jail, Seya who hit town like a cult leader, announced he was running for presidency. To show he had learnt and forgotten nothing from his mistakes in America, Seya went ahead to issue a basket of fake academic papers to the electoral commission. His basket of papers included certificates of attendances. Challenged that his papers were wanting; Hajj circulated them to his seyas to make copies and vend them on the streets other than giving them to the Electoral Commission. Trust Seyas, Hajj who had swore his papers were as weighty as Robert Mugabe's, ended up going back to school to acquire genuine papers!
And what's more? Seya also entered the HALL OF INFAME, when he issued fake cheques to Barclays bank during the days of his Kisaasi Forex Bureau, smiling away with hundreds of millions of underserved monies.
Taken to court, Seya argued that he also innocently received the cheques from clients who wanted Forex as a dealer for a fee. As such reasoned Seya, he in turn issued them to the bank, to get back the money he had exchanged for the cheques.
Because the bank received cheques expecting a fee, Seya argued, the financial institutions had to treat the transaction as a deal gone bad. Justice Edward Lugayizi saw through Seya's slyness and ordered him to return Shs116m to the bank.
Joana Nanyonga
This Rakai woman hit headlines prescribing soil as an HIV cure in the 1980's. As people from across the world poured into her ram shackled home for an HIV cure, the sly woman was pocketing money off the desperate sick!
Interestingly, when she later suffered a chronic disease, she could not eat the soil herself to cure self. Yet she had prescribed the soil as a cure for all diseases under the sun!
Prof Charles Ssali aka Mariandina (Deceased)
The departed professor made quite a dime selling food supplements as an HIV cure at his Kitante based residence. When government finally banned his mariandina pills, he hopped onto the next flight to UK and started from where he had stopped while in Uganda.
Michael Ezra Mulyoowa
Though, the onetime break-dancer champion had failed to pay Ushs1.2Bn in taxes to URA and faced arrest, Ezra went on to flash $3m dollars to journalists. Instead of moving to URA and sort out Madam Allen Kagina, he instead flashed the dollars to journalists to show he was loaded. Three years down the road, info from URA, indicate Ezra's, the billionaire's bill, has since grown to Shs3Bn.
We are talking about tycoon Mulyoowa who later failed to pay for bail and save self from jail in Kenya. Later alone clearing Shs49m on cheques he paid to some Asians in Kenya.
Though he talked of having bought a watch at more than Shs1bn from Saudi oil barons, bid to buy out then bankrupt Premier League outfit, Leeds United, ordered for an Airbus worth hundreds of billions, Ezra could not refund Shs2bn for siblings Frank Katusiime and Dr Mushabe. This is money he received after he lied to the siblings he would invest it in a multi-billion hospital facility in Kampala. Sorry, the international conman's games are so many, we had better stopped here.
Karim Hirji
The leading hotel magnate proved he is another con guy when he billed government up to Shs76m for workshops that never sat at his Imperial Royale Hotel. Trapped, the chubby cheeked tycoon promptly wired the money back to the Ministry of Works Account in Bank of Uganda. Oh yes, the hotel's senior accounts assistant Rebecca Mella wired Shs76,993,000 to the Ministry of Works in BOU number 000160088000014.
The last we checked, CIID iron lady Grace Akullo was still twisting Karim's beefy neck so he could vomit millions for another Ministry of Health workshop that never sat at his Imperial Hotel, but for which ghost workshop, he sent government a bill.
Bad Black
When he opened her heart and what have you to David Greenhaigh, the raw Mzungu thought Sharita Namuyimbwa was the best lover that ever lived. He only learnt that our super socialite girl was a con when she cleaned his pockets of more than Shs11Bn.
Meddie Ssentongo
Seeking to land Bad Black's windfall, he made advances to the girl who took him in. Meddie would turn into an overnight tycoon hopping from happening place to happening place and throwing around money as if he grew it on trees, till luck run out for him. For don't they say that crime does not pay. Trust, Namuyimbwa, she did exactly what she did to the Mzungu on falling out. She is now in the hands of another man, whom she hooked up even before poor Meddie could leave prison. Seyas!
Godfrey Kirumira aka Baggery
The socialite tycoon hit headlines when he peeped into Bank of Baroda and saw unused Kiruhura's funds. Salivating, Kirumira crafted ways to divert the Shs160m, which plot was successful. As he enjoyed the money, Kirumira forgot that it belonged to First Lady Janet Kataha's home district: Kiruhura.
The pot-bellied polygamist would later collapse in a heap when Janet called CIID iron lady Grace Akullo and directed her to squeeze Kirumira real hard for messing up with Kiruhura's dime. Released to return for questioning the next day, Kirumira only returned to report he had wired the money back to Kiruhura's account and pleaded for release.
Andrew Kananura aka Desh
His business partners including former minister Sir Richard Kaijuka, journalist Andrew Mwenda and city lawyer Bob Kasango are squeezing the Naguru ill-fated Panamera bar owner and rally driver hard for allegedly conning them out of close to Shs1Bn.
Info we obtained indicates that Desh conned Kaijuka of Shs450m. Bob Kasango of Shs420 while Mwenda lost $1000 to his business associate.
Another victim of Makerere Chancellor Prof Mondo Kagonyera son's con-game is former minister Mary Mugyenyi. Mugyenyi claims that Desh lured her into a BMW X-Land swap deal where the former minister agreed to exchange her Shs275m land in Kiruhura for the wheels and a cash payment of 100m.
It's alleged that Desh paid Shs100m to Mugyenyi and requested her to move with him to the bank at Acacia Avenue for the balance, only for the fox to reportedly mingle with the pedestrians and disappeared.
Mugyenyi alleges that she would later nearly drop dead when Desh sued her complete with a land sales agreement for the land, which she never participated in making.
Bob Kasango
If Queen Mother Best Kemigisha story, in fact a court case, is to be believed, Desh's accuser, city lawyer Bob Kasango is not a clean man either.
King Oyo's mum claims Kasango picked her Shs4.5Bn from government, for land she had sold the State, only for the brown skinned youthful lawyer to keep Shs3.5Bn to himself. Based at the plush Workers House, Kasango who drives top of the range cars still faces criminal charges at Buganda Road Court.
These are some of the few con guys we have brought for you today, but there many more and we will keep smoking them out. Long for now.
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H.OGWAPITI
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