Avoid Uganda | Sandrah Namata Case — Theft, Fake Domestic Abuse & Police Collusion

Case 1: Sandrah Namata, Okoth David Okango, Sgt. Beatrice Gonza and Advocate Mugabi — UPF IGP Impersonation, stolen apartment goods, a fake “domestic abuse” case, Ugandan Police bribing, complete corruption of Police process.

This case is about a Ugandan woman named Sandrah Namata who emptied an apartment that a European expat had rented for the two of them. He was supposed to be her boyfriend. They never lived together. He discovered she was a gold digger and ended the relationship before he arrived in Uganda. She took the contents of the house and left. Among the stolen items was a computer meant for work.

When the expat pressed her for the return of his belongings, two things happened.

First, Sandrah went to policewoman Sgt. Beatrice Gonza of the police station on Kira Road (Sgt. Beatrice Gonza was Sandrah’s friend). Together they filed a fake “domestic abuse” report — even though the expat and Sandrah had not seen each other in many months and had never cohabited.

Second, the expat asked for help and mediation (not for free) from a man who presented himself as a lieutenant of the UPDAF (Uganda People’s Defence Air Force) and a pilot — and, most impressively, as the son of the then Inspector General of the Uganda Police Force, Martin Okoth Ochola. His real name is OKOTH DAVID OKANGO.

What follows are recorded phone conversations between the fake Ochola son, Sgt. Beatrice Gonza, Chairman Kulambiro of Kisaasi, and a man named Mugabi who was presented as a lawyer representing or helping Sandrah.

Warning to Expats & Tourists

If you are in Uganda, assume the woman you are with is most likely a gold digger. If you do not play the way she wants, she can try to have you arrested with a fake “domestic abuse” filing. You do not want to be arrested by Ugandan police.

People in this case

Sandrah Namata, Uganda — subject of the stolen-apartment and fake domestic-abuse case — Sandrah Namata

Mugabi, presented as a lawyer helping Sandrah Namata — Mugabi — presented as lawyer for Sandrah

Audio recordings

File	Player	Caption / Notes
1.mp4		First call between fake Ochola son and Sgt. Beatrice Gonza of the Ugandan Police on Kira Road
2.m4a		Sgt. Beatrice Gonza will do anything for the republic as long as there is an "appreciation"...
3.m4a		The rot continues...
4.m4a		OMG - more to come!

Other images

File	Preview	Caption / Notes
Beatrice.png		Sgt. Beatrice Gonza standing next to stolen computer — apparently endorsing it all.
jailed.png		Fake Ochola's son is some kind of Air-Force officer who showed me this to impress me

Video evidence

Scammer Ugandan Air Force officer pilot in the cockpit.

Mayi Nalubega (aka “Maya”) — Serial Scammer & Gold Digger, aided by a population of “Professionals” and “Officials”, that are ready to do anything for some money.

Based on a statement to Uganda Police dated 8 June 2022. The complainant’s name is withheld here.

An EU citizen arrived in Uganda for the first time on 9 November 2020 to meet Mayi Nalubega (“Maya”), whom he had met on the webcam site imlive.com. Webcam work of that kind is legal in most countries outside Uganda.

At that time Maya was working at a studio later shut down by Kampala police. Her boss was Olivia (real name: Oliver Nakaziba), later arrested by Ugandan Police with other models. On 6 June 2022, Territorial Police in Kabalagala publicly reported the bust of an online sex hub run from a rented apartment under the cover name “Online Module Center.” Arrested with Olivia were Wainawalo Ester (18), Matovu Patricia (18), Katusiime Mackline (20) and Atim Rital (25).

When the complainant arrived, Maya had started her own studio. He helped her, believing it was a legitimate business. After the complainant found that it was not a legal business in that particular country, and after the relationship had already collapsed, he decided to close the apartment he had rented, sell the contents and leave the country.

While he was away for a temporary business trip, Maya returned to that apartment with family members and a policeman she knew. They entered illegally and took all the contents of the apartment (leased under his name) that were purchased and belonged to him. The landlord in Makindye, named Bryan, can confirm that account (his phone number is available on request).

Maya then reopened her own studio at another location using the stolen goods. That studio was also closed by the complainant, upon his return, with help from friends and police. Facing the loss of the studio again, Maya tried to convince him she had been left pregnant by him without telling him, and sent photographs of an apparent pregnancy.

He was not convinced. She then said her mother had died and that she had to abort twins. He sent her to a clinic of his choice, which produced a report that testified that an abortion had indeed taken place. He later concluded she had paid the clinic for a fabricated report. A handwritten clinical note from Alth Care / Malcom Health Care (Kampala) and a receipt dated 7 May 2021 for UGX 500,000 in the name “MAYA” were part of that paper trail and are attached here.

The EU expat believed the story, had a tattoo made of his “lost twins,” and returned to Uganda to find her. On arrival he found fattening pills at Maya’s apartment (Dexona/dexamethasone) and discovered that her mother was alive and had been hidden so she could pretend to be dead. The pregnancy, abortion and death story were fabricated to pull him back and keep the studio running.

They broke up at the same apartment she occupied for some more months after he left — once more an apartment whose lease was under his name. He later found she was still running the same work from that apartment and employing other girls too to do the same.

Mayi Nalubega is a con-woman who has burned and extorted many men. She is one of the thousands of Ugandan women who survive doing cons like that or worse.

Warning to Expats & Tourists

This scam follows a typical pattern employed by Ugandan gold diggers. Meet online. Extract money and housing. When the victim leaves, empty the apartment with help from family and perhaps a friendly or paid policeman.

If things toughen up, invent pregnancy, abortion and dead relatives to muddy the waters and gaslight, in order to keep achieving the goal of extortion. Provide seemingly credible proof from “professionals” or “officials” who will provide anything from fake medical reports to death certificates, birth certificates and even fake IDs — with the significant detail being that these are not counterfeit documents, but official documents made to order (for a negotiable fee) by Uganda’s official authorities or seemingly respectable large businesses.

Evidence from the police statement

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File	Preview	Caption / Notes
maya-police-bust.jpg		6 June 2022 news: Kabalagala police bust of Olivia’s studio — the workplace Maya came from.
maya-pregnancy.jpg		Photo Maya sent claiming pregnancy after the first studio was closed.
maya-clinic-note.jpg		Clinic note she produced. The statement says she paid for a fake report.
maya-clinic-receipt.jpg		Receipt 7 May 2021 — UGX 500,000, name MAYA, Malcom Health Care, Kampala.
maya-twins-tattoo.jpg		Tattoo made after he believed the twins story and returned to Uganda.
maya-dexona.jpg		Fattening pills found on return — Dexona (dexamethasone).
maya-bedroom.jpg		One of the photos sent with the pregnancy story. Exposed area covered.
maya-cam-profile.jpg		Cam profile (AmandaRomance) showing the same work continuing after the breakup.
maya-cam-photo.jpg		Photo from that profile. Exposed area covered.

Underage Ugandans obtain OFFICIAL adult age IDs by bribing in order to work online as sex cam girls

There are almost certainly underage Ugandan workers on sex cam sites, because there is very strong evidence of extreme corruption in Uganda’s official authority of ID issuance (NIRA), whereby bribing can change date of birth, and pretty much everything else — something that I witnessed myself a couple of years ago while in Uganda.

Right below you will find links to articles about exactly that, written by Ugandan reporters, and involving even a request that the government provide an “age verification machine”, because official IDs cannot reliably establish the age of a Ugandan citizen, even within Uganda.

Why an adult ID is not proof of age

If a national ID can be issued, or its date of birth altered, for a fee, then a cam site that accepts that ID as age proof is not checking age. It is checking a document Ugandan reporters have already described as for sale.

Warning to Expats & Tourists

If you are in Uganda, you may have sex with a girl who is underage even though she holds an apparently valid and official adult-age ID. You can later be jailed in Uganda as a pedophile, or extorted of a lot of money by the police in order to be let go. An official-looking adult ID is not a defence.

Ugandan reporting

Screenshots of those reports

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Sunday Vision, 5 May 2019: Forgery, bribery hit ID project — Sunday Vision, 5 May 2019. Headline: “Forgery, bribery hit ID project.” Also: “NIRA officials ask applicants to pay for documents” and “Ugandan citizenship on sale, NIRA officials on the spot.”

Daily Monitor, 29 April 2022: Govt tightens rules for changing date of birth on IDs — Daily Monitor, 29 April 2022. NIRA said some Ugandans apply to lower or increase their age on National Identity Cards.

Observer viewpoint, 11 March 2026, on the proposed age-detecting machine — The Observer, 11 March 2026. Government Analytical Laboratories asked Parliament for at least Shs 2 billion for age-detection equipment after NIRA referrals.

Observer article page on NIRA age referrals and altered ages — Same article: NIRA referrals during ID renewal, and the writer’s claim that altering age has long been a norm.

Observer article page saying many Ugandan IDs carry imaginary ages — Same article: driving permits, birth certificates, passports and national IDs described as carrying imaginary ages.

Ugandan Police is really a ruthless criminal cartel

The passages below are short extracts from published reporting and official human-rights findings about the Uganda Police Force. Where a source is describing the police together with other security forces, the extract says so. Each passage is linked to the page it comes from.

Warning to Expats & Tourists

Ugandan Police (UPDF) can arrest you at any time for no reason at all. They can beat and torture you (beatings can be public), and they can break into your home at any moment without any legal process or document. Please understand that as an expat or tourist you are under the complete disposition and mercy of the Ugandan Police, although you may not realize it. They may even arrest you just to extort money from you for your release, while a real reason for it all will never be given.

“The Ugandan police Rapid Response Unit frequently operates outside the law, carrying out torture, extortion, and in some cases, extrajudicial killings.”

“Sixty of 77 interviewees who had been arrested by RRU told Human Rights Watch that they had been severely beaten at some point during their detention and interrogations. In 2010, at least two people died of injuries from beatings during interrogations, and four people were shot and killed in the course of an arrest.”

Human Rights Watch, 23 March 2011 — https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/03/23/uganda-torture-extortion-killings-police-unit

“This report details extrajudicial killings, torture, illegal detention, forced confessions and other abuses by the Rapid Response Unit (RRU) of the Uganda Police Force.”

“RRU officers routinely use unlawful force during arrest, including beating suspects and, in one instance that Human Rights Watch documented, shooting a handcuffed suspect. RRU personnel were allegedly responsible for at least six extrajudicial killings in 2010 alone, frequent use of torture during interrogations to extract confessions, and prolonged illegal and sometimes incommunicado detention of suspects at RRU headquarters in Kireka, Kampala, and other locations.”

Human Rights Watch, 23 March 2011 — https://www.hrw.org/report/2011/03/23/violence-instead-vigilance/torture-and-illegal-detention-ugandas-rapid-response

“A special unit of the Uganda police has carried out torture, extortion and extrajudicial killings, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. Officers from the Rapid Response Unit regularly beat people with objects including batons, glass bottles, and metal pipes, the report said. It said in some cases they inserted pins under detainees’ fingernails.”

“A Ugandan police spokeswoman said there had been cases of torture, but their number had been reduced.”

BBC News, 23 March 2011 — https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-12828320

“In the five weeks since electoral campaigns began on 9 November, dozens of people have been killed in election-related violence, most of them shot dead by police and other security forces, including unidentified gun-toting individuals in plainclothes, and dozens more have been injured.”

“President Yoweri Museveni has publicly stated that 54 people were killed on 18 and 19 November in the protests and unrest that followed the arrest of the leading opposition presidential candidate and popular musician, Robert Kyagulanyi (popularly known as Bobi Wine).”

Amnesty International, 14 December 2020 — https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2020/12/uganda-stop-killings-and-human-rights-violations-ahead-of-election-day/

“Police said they used live bullets, tear gas and water cannon, and arrested nearly 600 people.”

“Police pathologist Moses Byaruhanga told Reuters on Friday the death toll had jumped to 37.”

“Witnesses said they saw university and high school students gunned down in the streets.”

Reuters, 20 November 2020 — https://www.reuters.com/world/ugandas-bobi-wine-released-bail-protest-death-toll-rises-37-2020-11-20/

“A report of an internal government investigations into the 2020 November riot killings has revealed that 39 out of the 54, or 72 percent, of people shot dead were hit by “stray bullets”.”

“Whereas the report shows arrests and prosecutions of dozens of suspected rioters … none of the security personnel who took lives of unarmed citizens has been arrested or tried.”

Daily Monitor, Derrick Wandera, 23 November 2021 — https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/special-reports/november-riots-report-stray-bullets-killed-39-victims-3628160

“There were several reports the government or its agents committed arbitrary or unlawful killings, including extrajudicial killings, during the year.”

“The constitution and law prohibited such practices, but there were credible reports security forces tortured and physically abused suspects, according to Amnesty International and other human rights activists. Impunity was rampant.”

U.S. Department of State, 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Uganda — https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/uganda

“There were several reports the government or its agents committed arbitrary or unlawful killings during the year.”

“The constitution and law prohibited such practices, but there were credible reports government agents tortured and physically abused detainees, according to media, opposition political parties, and human rights activists.”

“Allegations of abuse and torture were often associated with detainees held at the police Special Investigations Unit facility at Kireka and the nearby DIS headquarters in Mbuya. Impunity was widespread within the police, prison, and executive branch security services, as well as the military.”

U.S. Department of State, 2024 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Uganda — https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/624521_UGANDA-2024-HUMAN-RIGHTS-REPORT.pdf

“The Department of State is taking action today to promote accountability for human rights violations committed in Uganda by designating four members of the Uganda Police Force (UPF) due to their involvement in gross violations of human rights, namely torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.”

U.S. Department of State, 2 October 2024 — https://2021-2025.state.gov/designation-of-uganda-police-force-officials-due-to-involvement-in-gross-violations-of-human-rights/

The report “documents enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests, unlawful detention, torture, and other ill-treatment by the police, army, military intelligence, and Uganda’s domestic intelligence body, the Internal Security Organisation (ISO), most in unlawful places of detention in 2018, 2019, and around the January 2021 general elections.”

“Former detainees said that security officers denied them access to lawyers or family and tortured, beat, and shackled them, and gave them electric shocks, and injections of unidentified substances.”

Human Rights Watch, 22 March 2022 — https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/22/uganda-hundreds-disappeared-tortured

Photographs

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Uganda’s anti-lgbtq+ law that includes the death penalty

Uganda has recently become (with a newly enacted law) one of the few countries in the world that potentially punishes homosexuality with the death penalty.

Warning to Expats & Tourists

If you are LGBTQ+ and you are going to Uganda, exercise extreme caution as you can be arrested simply for holding hands, and much worse if you are caught in a more compromising situation. Incarceration, beating and extortion are very real outcomes.

Relevant information can be found in the following links: