Richard Mwami, a former senior manager at MTN Uganda who was hounded out of the job in 2012 following allegations that he had orchestrated mobile money fraud, has finally got justice after the court ordered that his former employer pay him Shs 2.3 billion for “malicious prosecution.” Justice Isaac Bonny Teko ruled that although the…
The International Hospital Kampala (IHK) in Namuwongo has lost a court case in which it wanted to recover Shs82.6 million in unpaid medical bills after it treated, for five months, an employee of an American-based firm who had gotten involved in an accident. The case started after Robert Mugabe, who worked for Torres Advanced Enterprise…
In one of the WhatsApp messages, he called his colleague a “skirt-chaser”. In another, he claimed the same colleague had fired bullets at some people in Kansagati over a woman and that the police were looking for him. All this was posted in a WhatsApp forum of senior managers at the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA)….
The Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA) acted “illegally, irrationally and with procedural impropriety” when it froze a company’s bank account without promptly seeking court approval, the High Court has ruled. The dispute started on January 4, 2026, when BMS General Trading Limited discovered that it could no longer access its money in Stanbic Bank. At that…
Ahmed Luyombya, who borrowed Shs 230 million from Centenary Bank but later his job has been ordered to clear the loan by court. In a ruling, Justice Bonny Isaac Teko dismissed an application by Luyombya and his guarantor, Richard Enoch Mwami, who had asked the court for permission to defend a summary suit filed by…
The High Court has significantly raised the fees awarded to a Kampala-based law firm for defending a Libyan investment company in a prolonged dispute over debt recovery commissions. The decision by Justice Bonny Isaac Teko, originates from a 2011 civil suit where Southern Investments Limited sued the Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company (LAFICO) for $9.5…
