Law Council strikes Kampala advocate Richard Buzibira off the roll over Shs1.2b land compensation fraud

According to the Daily Monitor, the Law Council Disciplinary Committee found Kampala advocate Richard Buzibira guilty of professional misconduct through fraud and negligence and ordered his name struck off the Roll of Advocates. The complaint, filed by a pastor who owned the land, accused him of forging documents to collect Shs1.2 billion in land compensation from the Uganda Land Commission for land in Buyaga. Buzibira denied wrongdoing; the committee ordered him to pay Shs10 million to the complainant and Shs2 million to the committee.