The Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court has adjourned the case in which Kampala District Land Board David Balondamu and Dr. Hassan Ssegujja of Mulago Hospital are accused of forgery of medical documents to May 16th, 2025.

Chief Magistrate Ronald Kayizzi adjourned the case today after a court session where the prosecutor who is handling the case, Viola Tusingwire, was indisposed; however, State Attorney Ivan Kyazze, who is a witness in the case, was ready and present to testify.

Both Balondamu and Dr Ssegujja are out on bail, but Kayizzi adjourned the case to May for him to start hearing the case. The prosecutors allege that Balondamu knowingly and fraudulently made a false document , a CT scan medical form dated June 2023, at Kampala Hospital.

The State alleges that Balondamu, two others and others still at large, between November 2022 and April 2023, at Bloom Advocates, with intent to defraud , obtained US dollars 5530.00 from KG Unlimited LLC, falsely pretending they were going to award it a contract for supplying agricultural drone sprayers and fertilisers from the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, which was not.

His arraignment at Buganda Road Court came after weeks of his release by the City Hall Magistrates Court on charges of defrauding a Korean investor in a gold deal of 2.2 billion shillings. But the charges were dismissed for lack of evidence.

However, when he was applying for bail for the failure of obtaining money by false pretence at Buganda Road Court, Balondamu furnished Grade One Magistrate Winnie Nankya’s court documents indicating that he was scheduled for surgery at Kampala Hospital as the grounds to seek temporary freedom from prison. As a result, the prosecution, represented by Ivan Kyazze, on that day went to verify the authenticity of the documents.

In his feedback to court, Kyazze tendered evidence that Balondamu had never been a patient of Kampala Hospital and neither was he going for an operation as stated in the documents, according to Kampala Hospital Chief Executive Officer Dr Peter Kibuuka. ” According to our documents, Mr Balondamu has never been a patient at Kampala Hospital. There is no scheduled TURP surgery on November 22nd, 2022, at 8am for Mr Balondamu as indicated in the letter dated November 7th , 2023.” Dr Kibuuka said