Kampala lawyers are on spot for allegedly forging sales agreements for Kibanja at Katanga Valley near Wandegeya in Kampala District.
The lawyers of SK Partners Advocates, who represent Dr Lule Ntwatwa, allegedly forged two different sets of sales agreement and attached them on a letter dated July 21, 2023, which was forwarded to court.
Dr Ntwatwa is facing charges of forgery and uttering false documents regarding ownership of land Katanga near Wandegeya before the Magistrates Court at Buganda Road.
Documents show that the action prompted M/s Alma Associated Advocates who represent pastor Daniel Walugembe to present another set of agreements on July 26, 2023, to clarify which agreements were genuine.
The court has now questioned the origin of the sales agreements presented by SK Partners Advocates which are not on court records.
In an August 13, 2026, letter, Ronald Kayizzi, the Deputy Registrar said that upon perusal of court files, he was able to find one set of sales agreements which were introduced by letter dated December 7, 2017, but received by court on January 10, 2018.
Kayizzi indicated that the said agreements were written by Bulasio Buyise, Jonathan Massembe, Ssendawula Ronald, Sendawula Isiah and Latimer Mpagi and that there is not any other set of agreements on record of court.
According to the court document, the authentic sales agreements are those executed between Walugembe and his predecessors in February and August 1996.
“I am unable to know how the agreements attached to the letter written by SK Partners were certified and obtained from court given that certified copies of sales agreements on record were not part of the documents given to H&G Advocates by Her Worship Janeva Natukunda in her letter dated February 9,2022 reference No. DR/02/22” reads the letter to M/s Fitz Patrick Furah and Co. Advocates.
The letter by Deputy Registrar, Kayizzi was responding to a request by Patrick Furah & Co. Advocates for perusal of the court files to clarify as to which of the two sets of sales agreements is genuine and which one is false.
In a December 2017 letter to the deputy Registrar of High Court Land Division, Bulasio Buyise, Jonathan Massembe, Ssendawula Ronald, Sendawula Isiah and Latimer Mpagi while describing themselves as plaintiffs in Civil case 857 of 2000 wrote that they sold their Kibanja interests Kimwanyi and Busia Zones in Katanga Valley to Pr Walugembe.
This followed a 2015 judgement of the High Court which ruled that the Katanga Valley land was occupied by family members and their licences who are now bonafide occupants whose rights are well protected under the laws governing ownership of land.
In 2024, a private prosecutor lodged a complaint against SK Partners Advocates; Robert Senfuka and Umar Nyanzi over allegations of forgery of agreements for the sale of land (Kibanja) in Katanga.
It had been alleged that the said lawyers under their law firm, SK and Partners Advocates, while acting for and on behalf of Dr Ntwatwa Lule on July 21, 2023, knowingly and unlawfully altered sales agreements dated February 9, 1996, and August 13, 1996, respectively.
Court documents show that the accused lawyers forged his agreement of February 9, 1996, and that of August 13, 1996, to indicate MTN telephone numbers of him (Walugembe) and his lawyer as well as bearing Land Act Cap 227 as the law under which the agreement was executed in 1996 did not exist but alter the authentic agreements acquired by Walugembe.
The complaint further stated that the genuine and authentic sales agreements bore a certificate of translation whereas the forged ones did not.
Walugembe had contended that the said agreements originated on behalf of Dr Ntwatwa thereby committing the offence of conspiracy to commit a felony before they were uttered before the Magistrates Court at LDC on July 10, 2023, while cross-examining him.
