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OPINION: Shielding delinquent bankers, ignoring odious debt: Everything that is wrong with the UGX142 bn Basajjabalaba ruling

by Isaac Ssemakadde
Businessman, Hassan Basajjabalaba, the proprietor of Haba Group (U) Ltd, Victoria International Trading Co Ltd, Sheila Investments Ltd, Yudaya International Ltd, and First Merchant International Trading Co Ltd has been ordered to repay over UGX142 billion that he erroneously received.
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The pre-Covid19 lockdown news that Hassan Basajjabalaba, the former chairman of ruling party NRM Entrepreneurs’ League and frontman for a string of briefcase companies, has been ordered by court to refund hundreds of billions of shillings which he was paid as ‘compensation by government’ was not only profoundly disappointing but also sadly predictable. It depicts the failure of our judici

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