Lawyers want dates set for Basajabalaba case resumption
The Chief Executive Officer of the Legal Brains Trust, Counsel Isaac Ssemakadde has asked the Director of Public Prosecutions the Honorable Justice Jane Frances Abodo to give a resumption date for the Basajjabalaba case that was withdrawn earlier in August this year.
The demand results from the 2011 decision by government to compensate Basajjabalaba with 142 billion for cancelation of his lease contracts to develop and manage five city markets after which he was meant to pay tax which he did not.
Last week, Legal Brains Trust CEO Isaac Semakade during a press conference called for the resumption of the Basajabalaba case in which he is battling charges of tax evasion worth 20 billion Shillings. After the office of the director of public prosecutions responding that the case would resume, Ssemakade is now demanding for an expedited process to have the date set to have the resumption of the case kickoff.
Gawaya Tegulle, a lawyer, says that the case of Basajjabalaba portrays corruption
Basajjabalaba and his brother Muzamiru Basajjabala are facing several charges ranging from forgery of a judicial document, uttering of a false document and conspiracy to defeat tax laws under the criminal case no. 003 2013 Uganda Vs Hassan Basajjabalaba and Muziramu Basajjabaraba.
