Julius Hakiza, the Albertine Region police spokesperson confirmed the councilor's detention, saying that they have preferred against charges of threatening violence, sabotaging government programs and obstruction.
Worse still, the builders declined to give particulars of their bosses to the local authorities. Tumusiime rushed to the construction work and halted the works since the contractor was not known to the area leaders and district officials and questions about the manner, in which the contract was awarded.
The roads to be graded from the current dilapidated state to first class murrum include14.85km Kigaya-Kitindura-Kikuube,7.30 Kyangwali-Tontema-Mahamba, 5.20km Bukinda-Nguse, 12.40km Kabanyansi-Musaijamukuru,13.95 km Kinogozi-Kihabwemi-Kigaya,16km Kiziranfumbi-Kichakanya-Ruhunga.
The group of more than 500 members were brutally evicted from Bugoma central forest land in April this year in an operation commanded by Amlan Tumusiime, the Kikuube Resident District Commissoner-RDC.
The government contracted Kwik Build Contractors and Engineering Limited in 2019 to construct the seed school at a cost of shillings 1.8 billion Shillings. The project covered the construction of classroom blocks, an administration block, an ICT block, Science laboratories, Pit Latrines, fencing, and levelling of the sports field.
According to Tumusime, last week, Kikuube Chief Administrative Officer- CAO Andrew Milton Kamalingin Chelangat informed him that they were yet to award the contract for the construction of the administration block.
The 200 farmers are part of the more than 20,000 people who encroached on part of the Bugoma forest land that Hoima Sugar Limited leased from Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom for 99 years to carry out sugarcane growing.
According to available information, the contractor was expected to complete the project in August 2020. The contactor is yet to fix doors and windows in some of the classrooms while some have developed big cracks on the floor. The compound and sports field have not been leveled.
Hundreds of people seeking employment in the district have reportedly been conned by the district officials who demand for money from the applicants promising to help them secure jobs in the various departments in the district. But even after extorting money from them, the applicants do not appear on the shortlist.
Lungton Tukasingula, one of the people utilizing the land accuses NFA and security officials of harassment, torture, indiscriminate arrests, and destruction of their crops. He says several acres of his maize plantation have been slashed by NFA officials yet he is cultivating on kingdom land.
The more than 1,000 residents, mainly women and children, were evicted from Bukinda A and B, Bukinda 2, Kavule, Bwizibwera A and B, Kyeya A and B, Nyaruhanga, Kabirizi, Nyamigisa A and B and Katoma villages among others in Kasonga parish, Kyangwali sub-county. President Museveni's order to restore the victims on their ancetral land has been ignored by the concerned officials.
Tumusiime, says that he is currently making consultations with the various government offices including the Prime Minister's office to find modalities on how to resettle the victims back on their land.
The District Executive Members are accused of collecting money from applicants applying for various jobs in the district promising to help them secure jobs in vain.
It is alleged that the three family members have been threatening Bahuma with forceful eviction for the past three years. This prompted her to seek help from the Kikuube Resident commissioner-RDC, Amlan Tumusiime.
The Congolese refugees are Jimmy Mayuki, Heritier Mangalulu, Kiiza Benjamin, Gloire Muyale and one only identified as Yomba all refugees attached to Kasonga trading center in the Kyangwali refugee settlement area.
Julius Hakiza, the Albertine Region police spokesperson, says that they started hunting for the councillor since the assault case was reported against him until Wednesday when he was sighted at the Kikuube district headquarters.
On Monday night reports emerged that some strangers had invaded Kasonga trading center that is situated within the Kyangwali refugee settlement area and that the strangers engaged police in gunfire exchange.
It is alleged that the evictees who have since pitched camp at the offices of the Kikuube LC5 Chairperson entered the forest land after Hoima Sugar leased it from Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom and started conducting the various activities.
Preliminary information shows that the deceased travelled to Kyangwali on Monday to supply his clients with various items including soap, cooking oil, sugar, biscuits, and salt among others. He checked in at the guest house at around 6:30 pm on Monday evening after supplying the merchandise.
