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Socialite Don Zella drags Speke Apartments to court, demands to be compensated UGX. 460M

GILBERT KAZIBWE | PML Daily CORRESPONDENTbyGILBERT KAZIBWE | PML Daily CORRESPONDENT
January 6, 2021
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Socialite Don Zella (PHOTO/Courtesy).

KAMPALA – City socialite Sheila Nadege better known as Nalongo Sheila Don Zella, has reportedly sued Speke Apartments to the courts of law seeking payment for damages worth $125,000 (Shs 461M).

In her lawsuit filed before the High Court Civil Division, Ms. Nadege states that on December 6, 2020, she rented two apartment rooms number 107 and 512 operated by Speke Apartments. However, on December 25 while she and her family members were away, thieves broke into her apartment at around 4 pm, room 107, and stole her properties worth Shs450 million.

Through her lawyers of Semuyaba, Iga & Co Advocates, Ms. Nadege claims that the said loss was occasioned by the negligence of Speke Apartments to which she holds liable for her stolen properties.

Court documents indicate that Ms. Nadege lost eight passports (7 USA and 1 Ugandan passport) requiring $2,000 (about Shs7 million) for replacement, two laptops (H/P ProBook and Macbook, a hard drive worth $3,000 (about Shs11 million), jewelry worth $15,000 (about Shs55 million).

Other properties included; four phones worth $4,800 (about Shs18 million), two kids’ tablets worth $600 (about 2 million), a Nikon D850 camera worth $4,000 (14 million), cash of $90,000 (about Shs 332 million), and Shs30m.

According to court documents, the said property was left in the locked apartment and also in the safe that was in the apartment for valuables which the thieves allegedly unscrewed and stole.

“That it has been revealed by the defendant (Speke Apartments) to the plaintiff (Ms. Nadege) that the identified thief had been booked as Jeremiah Ojok in apartment number 110 for a day,” reads part of her affidavit in part.

The socialite states that she was denied the key to her bedroom in the rented apartment despite numerous requests to the manager only identified as Nimesh which would have mitigated the loss.

“Failure to station a security guard on the apartment floor well knowing the residents keep valuables within the apartments and failure to require foreign residents like the identified thief to deposit passports or copies thereof with the defendant as it is alleged he was a Kenyan amount to negligence,” her affidavit reads further.

She also holds Speke Apartments liable for failing to have a system of checking residents when moving out of the premises that allowed the alleged thief to move out with a safe he had removed from her room and tampering with the scene of the crime before the police and she got there making it difficult to apprehend the alleged thief in time.

Ms. Nadege states that that the loss she suffered is legally recognizable and not too remote from the breach of duty by Speke Apartments as it was foreseeable thus she was not in any way contributory negligent nor did she voluntarily assume any risk to cause the above loss to her.

“The plaintiff shall aver that the defendant owed her a legal duty to take care of the circumstances. The plaintiff shall further aver that there was a breach of that duty like the defendant’s acts failed to reach the standard of carefulness required by the circumstances and so there is a breach of the duty to take care,” court documents read in part.

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