{"id":394032,"date":"2017-06-03T17:23:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T17:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/03\/court-bid-to-exhume-ugandan-celebritys-body-buried-with-cash\/"},"modified":"2017-06-03T17:23:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T17:23:25","slug":"court-bid-to-exhume-ugandan-celebritys-body-buried-with-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/03\/court-bid-to-exhume-ugandan-celebritys-body-buried-with-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Court bid to exhume Ugandan celebrity&#8217;s body buried with cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A concerned citizen, a one Abey Mgugu, has dragged \u00a0A-Plus funeral management and Bank of Uganda to the High Court\u00a0seeking\u00a0orders that the body of late Ivan Ssemwanga be exhumed and all the currency notes that were buried with him removed.<\/p>\n<p>Mgugu argues that the purposes of the said monies put into the grave were misused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBurying a dead body with money is a wastage of public property which violates social and economic rights of other people,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/aaaaaaabig-703x422.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:302px; margin-left:2px; margin-right:2px; width:503px\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"4059175209\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/aaaaaaasmall-680x453.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; margin-left:2px; margin-right:2px\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"1296836547\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mgungu wants an order that the said money be put back into circulation\u00a0\u00a0for purposes of respecting the currency of Uganda and other countries like South Africa\u00a0and the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>Mgugu wants a declaration that Bank of Uganda willfully and negligently failed to ensure the respect of the said currencies\u00a0and\u00a0is also seeking a declaration that he be allowed to recover the money from the grave on behalf of Ugandans.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday this week at Nakaliro village in Kayunga, \u00a0socialites of the so called Rich Gang team, were seen throwing money into their colleague Ivan \u00a0Ssemwanga\u2019s grave, an act for which Mgugu \u00a0seeks general damages.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Ssemwanga,39, died on Wednesday May 25, 2017 at Steve Biko Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa where he was based.\u00a0Semwanga was one of the members of the self styled Rich Gang group well known in both South Africa and Uganda.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/10390283_646647185477917_6081390805068415772_n.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:530px; margin-left:2px; margin-right:2px; width:530px\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"3628175967\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\">Ivan Ssemwanga with money in his bed<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ssemwanga was a\u00a0former husband to another\u00a0city socialite Zari \u201cBoss Lady\u201d Hassan, with whom they had three boys. She is now in a relationship with Tanzanian celebrated musician Diamond Platnumz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A concerned citizen, a one Abey Mgugu, has dragged \u00a0A-Plus funeral management and Bank of Uganda to the High Court\u00a0seeking\u00a0orders that the body of late Ivan Ssemwanga be exhumed and all the currency notes that were buried with him removed. Mgugu argues that the purposes of the said monies put into the grave were misused. 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