STATE HOUSE | LAND GRABBING | POLICE

KAMPALA - The State House anti-Corruption Unit (SHACU) headed by Col. Edith Nakalema has arrested three people in connection with the unlawful eviction of a 97-year-old woman, Mayimuna Kyamulabi. 

Last month Col. Nakalema invited Kyamulabi in her office and listened to her ordeal of how she had been tormented by land grabbers in connivance with her daughter and son-in-law. 

They forcefully threw her out of her residence and razed her house and other rentals where she used to earn a living. 

She had been on the land since the early 1970s when she inherited the land from her father, Tmiteo Mitala, a First World War veteran.  

Kyamulabi said she originally had over 20 acres of land, but it had been forcefully sold off by people taking advantage of her old age. (Photo by Eddie Ssejjoba)

Col. Nakalema, who was disturbed by the old woman’s story vowed to pursue the tormentors, saying it was a big shame that they did not consider her age and the fact that she did not consent to the selling of her land.   

On Friday (June 18, 2021), Muhammad Musoke, Geoffrey Kayizi Kizito and Kyamulabi’s daughter, Amina Zawedde of Buwambo in Kira Municipality were arrested and brought to the Unit’s head office at Parliamentary building where they were interrogated. 

They wrote statements and were later transferred to the Central Police Station in Kampala where they were detained awaiting to be arraigned in courts of law.  

Sources at SHACU revealed that investigations into the matter have been completed and the suspects will soon be charged. 

Nakalema assisting Mayimuna to walk.

Kyamulabi told Nakalema that her last born, Zawedde, working with her husband (son-in-law) Abdul Kikoyo teamed up with her son, Khalid Ssaabwe Bazzeketta to sell her land.  

She said that during the lockdown last year, the suspects destroyed her nine rental rooms claiming that they had bought the land from her daughter.  

Kyamulabi was saved by one of her daughters, Mastullah Nakibuule, a resident of Nabbingo in Wakiso district who fought with the men who were harassing her mother. 

Nakibuule sustained injuries during the fight. 

Kyamulabi said she originally had over 20 acres of land, but it had been forcefully sold off by people taking advantage of her old age.  

“I am too old to quarrel with anybody. My wish was for me to die and be buried near my parents and siblings, but all that I owned has been destroyed and the land was forcefully taken,” she narrated.