A group of youths under the Poor Youth Network have petitioned the President Yoweri Museveni over what they have termed as ‘excessive legal fees payments’ in court case between the Bank of Uganda and former shareholders of Crane Bank Limited (under receivership). In the petition, Ssempala Zahid, the national spokesperson for Poor Youth Movement copied to the World Bank, the Speaker of Parliament, and IMF among others, calls for the president’s intervention into the matter so that the case is settled outside court to save the tax payers money. “We are writing to inform you that, on 23rd June 2020,…
Youth Group petitions Museveni over ‘Tax payers’ Money Wastage’ in Court case between BoU and Sudhir Just last month, Court of Appeal upheld last year’s Commercial Court ruling that a bank in receivership, under the Financial Institutions Act (2004) cannot sue or be sued and therefore Crane Bank (in receivership) cannot and should not have sued businessman Dr. Sudhir Ruparelia and his company Meera Investments

Businessman Sudhir Ruparelia (centre) together with his son Rajiv Ruparelia and KAA lawyers at the Court of Appeal in Kampala after his second-round Court of Appeal win. KAA has appealed to Bank of Uganda to go to Supreme Court if they are disatisfied with the Court of Appeal ruling insead of making false and inaccurate statements in the media.




