At least 348 out of the 356 legislators voted to censure the minister for alleged misconduct and violation of the oath of parliament. Namuganza's decision to sit on the front bench didnt go down well with some legislators.
The beneficiaries affected include Internal Medicine of Virginia PC (15 acres), Master Links Uganda Ltd (3 acres), Phaneroo Ministries (4 acres) and Arab Oil Supplies and Exploration Ltd (4 acres).
Parliament has adopted a committee recommendation seeking to hold the Minister of State for Housing, Persis Namuganza accountable for abuse of office.
Namuganza is accused of misleading Uganda Land Commission –ULC into allocation of the Nakawa-Naguru land to individuals and entities following Presidential Directives which were non-existent. Even the alleged beneficiaries of the allocations have disowned the purported requests uttered by Namuganza which they are alleged to have made for the land, as forgeries.
MPs sitting on the Adhoc Committee of Parliament investigating the process of distribution of 82.05 acres of Nakawa-Naguru land to different 'investors' blamed the Minister of State for Housing, Persis Namuganza for alleged influence peddling Namuganza and for not advising the President adequately citing the allocation of 15 acres of land to the Internal Medicine of Virginia whose directors are not known.
Mutabazi together with other investors that benefited from the land distribution by the Uganda Land Commission (ULC) on Thursday appeared before the committee chaired by Kazo County MP, Dan Kimosho to explain the circumstances under which they got to know about the land.
In the report, the Committee Chairperson, Kafeero Ssekitoleko, says that Cabinet had agreed to pay the sitting tenants Shillings 17.7 million each as ex-gratia. The committee however proposed that the money be increased.
