Youth Pressure Group Want Lawyer, Mpanga To Return Shs9b Tax Payers Money

By SM News Correspondent

Not all seems well of late for renowned city lawyer, David Mpanga.

The latest news is that concerned citizens under the pressure group: “Uganda Poor Youth Movement” (UPYM) have embarked on a campaign to make David Mpanga return taxpayers’ money which BoU had paid him for services he did not render.

Mr. David K. Mpanga is on the spot for failing to refund over Shs9Bn which was paid to his law firm AF Mpanga Bowman in 2017 by Bank of Uganda.

The said money was paid to Mpanga such that his law firm could represent Bank of Uganda in a case the Central Bank had filed against tycoon Sudhir Ruparelia, accusing him of allegedly siphoning Shs397Bn from Crane Bank before it was closed by BoU in 2016 and later sold to Dfcu bank in 2017.

Mpanga was however thrown out of the case after court ruled that he had conflict of interest because he had earlier on been working as both Crane Bank and Sudhir’s lawyer.

After being thrown out of the case by BoU, they hired new lawyers who however also didn’t succeed and a few months later the high court commercial division dismissed the case with costs, in Sudhir’s favour.

However, despite the fact that Mpanga had been thrown out of the case, he did not refund the money he had been paid together with his law firm for the said job.

Led by the UPYM speaker Zaid Ssempala, the pressure group revealed on Friday at a press conference that they have since petitioned several organisations about the matter, such that they can prevail upon Mpanga to refund the taxpayers’ money which he pocketed for a job he never did.

Ssempala said that “We have petitioned Bowman’s Gilfillan African Group, the Uganda Law Society, International Bar Association UK Bar Association and other relevant authorities to get involved this matter.

Mpanga is exhibiting a lot of unprofessionalism and unethical behavior in his mode of operation, reason why these organisation have to investigate his actions institute the necessary disciplinary action he deserves.”