The four Annette Natukunda, Irene Akiteng, Immaculate Ayebazibwe and Elly Ampurire were arrested on March 12, 2019, when the commission invaded Prime Housing Estates offices in Masooli, Wakiso District. The company is owned and managed by Ruta Ngambwa, a businessman, who has been cited in several cases of land grabbing.
The Widow, Grace Birabwa Namutebi Isharaza, told the commission today that Kekimuli took over a family ranch which she and her husband purchased in 1982, in kemiyoga, Kashari. She says the family had used the land to keep cattle, grow food and plant a forest.
The Commission Chairperson, Justice Catherine Bamugereire directed Ngambwa on Monday to go with the Commission security and produce the titles later today
Nanfuka said the disputed land belonged to their late father, Gabriel Bagunywa who died in 1971. She explained that after selling off the land in 2012, Kasule ordered them to vacate it.
Nansubuga explained that the association members led by their Chairperson, Sulaiman Kubo and Jamada Iga started visiting her family land in 2014 shortly after the death of her husband.
As the team approached ESO headquarters, a soldier identified as Corporal Julius Katuriba Number RA 095301 yelled at the Commission security, which was advancing towards the checkpoint.
Appearing before the Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters on Wednesday Kasasa says that in 1996, a military detach was set up on his land in Mutungo. He says that he ignored their presence hoping that they would vacate.
Wasajja said that the family has not asked for any compensation but should be compensated for the private property damaged. He explained that Sir Edward Mutesa 1, the Kabaka then, lost a lot of property and cited Roll-Royce motor vehicles among other personal property.
Bamugemereire ironically ask Ojera if he agrees that there was something fishy about the entire process through which the land was plotted. Ojera who seemed to insist that the process was done properly blamed irregularities on the existence of residue.
In a press release issued today, Katureebe raised concern with the mode used by the Commission to communicate matters concerning the judiciary with the Chief Justice saying that the Commission findings would have been communicated through an Interim Report to the President, and not a press release.
Banobas testimony contradicted evidence on a 41 minute video footage presented to the Commission by Umar Ssebuyungo, an Operations Officer in the Uganda Peoples Defense Reserve Force showing men destroying peoples houses and plantations.
The Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters has interrogated a retired police officer Frederick Patrick Munalwa over his involvement in land evictions in Nama Sub-county in Mukono district.
The Commission Lead Counsel, Ebert Byenkya, said the Commission has a huge wage bill which includes the emolument of Commissioners and investigators among others.
Nayebare was accused together with senior security officers for allegedly assaulting, raping and destroying property while evicting members of the society from 980-acre resettlement land in Gomba district.
Justice Catherine Bamugemereire, the Chairperson of the Land Commission issued the arrest warrant on Friday, indicating that her investigators had been unable to trace Otema-Awany.
The Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters questioned Abbas Mawanda, a banker who sold the controversial Temangalo land to businessman Amos Nzeyi between 1988 and 1993.
The summons follows a petition filed by a Canadian-Asian family led by Nazim Moosa claiming ownership of the 366.2 acres of land at Temangalo. Nazim says the land registered as Temangalo Tea Estate Limited was owned by his parents Mohammed Hassnali Moosa who died in 1997 and Sherbanu Hassnali Moosa.
