In Masaka City, the court has acquitted Hon. Alice Nanungi, the councillor representing Nyendo-Mukungwe Division in the Masaka City Council, of charges related to conspiracy with former council clerk Luwaga Steven to forge council resolutions from meetings held on May 26, 2023, and August 24, 2023.
Presiding over the case, Magistrate Kayiiza Abudallah ruled that the evidence presented by the prosecution was insufficient to prove that Hon. Nanungi conspired with Luwaga Steven to alter the council’s resolutions. As a result, he declared that Hon. Nanungi was not guilty.
However, Luwaga Steven has been ordered to return to court on July 3, 2025, to face separate charges related to the alleged forgery of council resolutions, although the conspiracy charge involving Hon. Nanungi has been dropped.
Hon. Nanungi’s legal representative, Sam Ssekyewa from Ssekyewa and Matovu Advocates, stated that the prosecution’s evidence clearly showed that Hon. Nanungi did not attend the council meetings in question—those held on May 26 and August 24, 2023—proving that the charges brought against her was baseless.
Meanwhile, Hon. Alice Nanungi claimed that the charges against her were politically motivated. She stated that her involvement in supporting certain members of the Mayor’s council, particularly those from the National Unity Platform (NUP), led to political retaliation and false accusations intended to tarnish her reputation and fail her to contest in the general coming elections.