{UAH} Australian's Uganda property to be sold

Australian's Uganda property to be sold

Updated: 11:06, Wednesday October 9, 2013

The High Court in Uganda has granted orders to attach property belonging to Ugandan-born Australian cardiologist Aggrey Kiyingi.

The attachment order comes after Dr Kiyingi reportedly failed to pay a debt of 2.5 billion Uganda shillings (about $A1 million) he owes a local businesswoman, Diana Jacqueline Asiimwe.

Bailiff Masters Limited has been granted permission to attach the property on behalf of Asiimwe.

According to one of the bailiffs, Nick Rutahaba Kashaija, the money Ms Asiimwe was hoping to recover was owed on items supplied to Dr Kiyingi's companies in Uganda.

Mr Kashaija said: 'Court has granted us permission to attach the property of Dr Aggrey Kiyingi. If he does not pay the money soon we will sell off the property.'

He, however, said under a new law in Uganda, they have to first apply for the sale of the property even if they have already attached it.

'We have already applied for permission to sell the property although we have not yet got the response. We expect it any time from now.'

Mr Kashaija said among the property attached are prime pieces of land in Kampala city.

Efforts to get comment from Dr Kiyingi were unsuccessful.

This is not the first time Dr Kiyingi has had a matter before the courts in Uganda.

In 2005, Dr Kiyingi was charged in Uganda with the murder of his estranged wife, who was gunned down in her car at the gate of her home in Kampala.

He was acquitted of the crime in 2006.

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Gwokto La'Kitgum

"Even a small dog can piss on a tall Building", Jim Hightower

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