State House Anti-Corruption Unit (SHACU) has advised one Irene Nalwoga a resident of Katabi town council, Wakiso district to seek court intervention over her alleged encroached land.

The advice by SHACU has come at a time after a viral video of Nalwoga made rounds on social media alleging that SHACU and other government agencies failed to help her as  people whom she described as powerful encroached on her land demolished her house.

“I have moved to every office government office including the SHACU but none of these people helped me,” Nalwoga said.

However, in a statement released by SHACU on February 14, the unit said their attention was drawn to a viral video in which Nalwoga claims that she was forced off her land, and despite reporting to various offices including the SHACU, she has not been assisted.

The unit revealed that on August 30^th, 2021, Nalwoga lodged a petition with our unit against police officers at Kisubi for allegedly mismanaging a case she had reported against  one Dr. Sylvia Tumuheirwe for  trespassing on her “kibanja” at Bugiri- Kiwulure, Katabi town council, Wakiso district, the unit stated.

The Unit said that investigations were duly instituted into the matter and they established that Nalwoga bought her piece of land measuring 50by 100ft on January 5^th, 2021 from one Barbara Alapo who had in turn acquired it from a one Charles Kyagaba who has severally been investigated by the unit for land fraud and is in court battling various cases about land fraud.

The unit noted that upon her purchase of the land, Nalwoga started construction of a residential house but a dispute arose between her and Dr. Tumuheirwe and her husband who claim to have acquired the certificate of title of land measuring 1.16 acres of land comprising in Busiro Block 429 Plot 256 in which the Kibanja is situated.

The unit stated that the disputed land used to form part of the estate of the late Henry Kyobe.

With more investigations from close relatives of the late Kyobe, denied that they didn’t know Alapo adding that if she owed a kibanja on the land and that it was bought on an interest, they were not aware of the alleged purchase nor consent to it.

“The sale was illegal and in the absence of the consent as required under section n 35 (1a) of the land act,” the unit said adding that on January 5^th, 2021, Alapo and Nalwoga had presented their sales agreement to David Kasujja the LCI chairperson of Bugiri- Kiwulure village who categorically refused to sign on the agreement because the people he was dealing with were not the rightful owners of the land.

The unit revealed that after investigations, the file was forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for guidance who guided that the facts of the investigations did not reveal any wrongdoing by the officers at Kasubi police station.