By Eyewitness Investigative Team
Namibia’s newly appointed Consular, Godfrey Kalule Kirumira is mired in what looks like a fabricated money-lending deal, the Eyewitness can irrefutably and exclusively reveal.
Eyewitness understands this intriguing deal to be worth about one billion Uganda shillings.
The newly appointed consular by Namibian and also the chairman of Kwagalana Group, a loose association for Kampala’s wealthy business people, Kirumira stands accused of using the court system to try to fleece a man and his elderly mother out of a cool $426,000( over UGX984m).
But Kirumira insists Edwin Baruma Twinomuhwezi, the Dynapharm’s youthful MD, and his elderly mother, Hope Baruma Tugume borrowed that money from him on March 2, 2020.
That despite having tried to use amicable means to settle this matter, Baruma had chosen to snub Kirumira hence prompting him to escalate these matters to court to recover his money.
The Baggery’s boss is joined by his son, Gideon Kabuye to sue Baruma on behalf of Revolt Finance, their money-lending company.
Kirumira’s lawsuit pends hearing by the High Court’s Civil Division’s boss, Justice Stephen Mubiru
But in rejoinder to what Kirumira asserts, Baruma states what Kirumira falsely wants them to pay to him has it’s own roots in yet another equally bogus $6m loan transaction.
Kirumira quickly suggests he doesn’t know anything about the $6m loan Baruma is talking about but that he knows everything about the $462,000 loan he supposedly advanced to Dynapharm and which Baruma and his mother have since purportedly refused to pay back to him.
But Baruma rejects Kirumira’s assertion that his mother was involved in these things. He says Hope is an elderly woman based in the far-flung Kiruhura district in Mbarara and that she is no longer for that matter able to move to Kampala let alone to engage in the taxing job of running Dynapharm.
The son points out that he merely registered the old woman as Dynapharm’s shareholder to make the legal number required to run a company otherwise he is currently Dynapharm’s one and only director.
He divulges that what is being falsely demanded from him is what Kirumira was presumably supposed to earn in commission but only if he had helped Dynapharm to secure the above-stated $6m top-up financing.
He claims that is the arrangement Kirumira has since manipulated and paraded before Justice Mubiru to hoodwink him that he( Kirumira) indeed lent to them money and which he and his mother have failed to pay back to him.
Since it’s Kirumira he himself responsible for hatching the so-called loan arrangement and for trapping him also into it, this explains why the Express’ FC former chairman insists Baruma doesn’t have any defense to what he is alleging about them.
Baruma argues the idea behind this is to gag him as opposed to giving him an opportunity to reveal to the court the inconvenient truth about this whole chicanery.
He claims Kirumira used one of his sidekicks known as Kevin Wava to lure him into the above-stated loan transaction.
According to Baruma, it all started when he had gone to Kirumira’s home to clear a debt worth $15,000. While he admits that Kirumira had on several occasions prior to this disputed deal provided him with debts with which to use to run Dynapharm, Baruma rejects the assertion that Revolt Finance had ever been involved at all in those transactions.
That after clearing the $15000 debt, Kirumira asked Baruma how his business was fairing. That is what supposedly prompted Baruma to disclose his working capital shortfalls to Kirumira.
And it was consequent upon that revelation by Baruma that Kirumira would undertake to talk to a lender in town to sort out Baruma’s own cash deficiencies.
Things moved pretty fast. Since Kirumira is reported to have talked to the lender just within a day and even caused a meeting between him and the man in need of cash. One Kevin Wava was that lender as per Baruma.
Negotiations ensued in earnest with Baruma tabling a $6m debt proposal. Wava is reported by Baruma to have positively responded to his proposal. That would, of course, end up sending Baruma on cloud nine with elation.
But in a strange twist of events, Wava is said to have shortly thereafter changed the story and disclosed to Baruma how he was, again, going to arrange for the financing in question from either Kenya or South Africa. And for doing that, Baruma was now, accordingly, told he was obligated to pay some commission to Wava.
But even so, neither did Baruma raise any finger, question anything nor did he suspect any mischief in all that Wava had told to him that far. In Baruma’s own words, all that Wava had told to him had been quite impressive to him. After all, all that he had been interested in up to that moment was capital not the source of that capital.
Kirumira is reported also to have interjected at this juncture by tabling his own commission worth a cool $426,000. Baruma was the one who was obligated to meet that one too.
But possibly because Baruma hadn’t come to that impromptu meeting with such kind of money, Kirumira is said to have offered to use his own money to clear his commission.
As per Baruma, Kirumira had prior to coming to the meeting stated above, withdrawn a total of $300,000 from Stanbic. That was the money he would use to partly settle his own commission plus Wava’s which was ostensibly $20,000 because that’s what he would reportedly hand out to Wava.
On top of what Kirumira had used to pay himself and Wava, Baruma was reportedly told he was now going to be obligated to pay an extra $126,000 in interest upon receipt of the $6m debt.
This is how the final commission payable to Kirumira would end up shooting up to $426,000.
Whereas he had agreed to pay whatever commission Kirumira and Wava had allegedly set for him to pay to them, the duo would allegedly end up shortchanging Baruma.
He claims he would learn to his shock later that what the two had all along been styling and parading to him as a loan arrangement in his favor was indeed a ruse whose intention had been to make it look as if Kirumira had indeed advanced a loan to Dynapharm through him and his mother.
He divulges that after waiting for the loan for days on end, he tried to call up Wava to ask what was going on. But that strangely and curiously all the mobile phone numbers Wava had provided to Baruma had now been shockingly switched off.
He goes on to reveal how he has since discovered Kevin Wava to be one of the numerous con men used by Kirumira to trap his victims.
Baruma says documents had been since fabricated to indicate that he and his elderly mother had actually borrowed the said sums of money from Kirumira.
He notes that on the day Kirumira claims he and his mother were borrowing money from him, he had gone to South Africa for a business trip while the old woman was miles apart from Kampala at her home in Kiruhura district.
He then wonders how it could have been possible for him to be both present in South Africa and Kampala while purportedly recieving a loan from Kirumira let alone her mother who was away in Kihuhura at the same time Kirumira claims he was dishing out a loan to them.
But Kirumira insists Baruma and the mother were signing the relevant loan paper work on the day the ‘crafty’ son claims he had gone for a business trip in South Africa.
He dismisses the passport evidence Baruma uses to show he was away in South Africa because Kirumira insinuates it doesn’t belong to him.
He adds that whereas a trip from Uganda to South Africa by South African Airways takes only four hours, strangely Baruma’s evidence shows that he spent four days in the skies before he could finally land in South Africa.
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