Brothers petition Museveni over land
Aug 21, 2008
OVER 20 residents of Wakiso district have petitioned the President seeking his intervention in a land row.
By Chris Kiwawulo
OVER 20 residents of Wakiso district have petitioned the President seeking his intervention in a land row.
Through the Resident District Commissioner, Waggwa Sseguya, the residents of Bumbu-Kitezi village in Nangabo sub-county, all sons of the late Yusuf Male, say Betty Naggayi, demolished their house on the night of August 5, claiming ownership of a plot of land, which their father bought from John Ndebaleba in 1977.
Ndebaleba bought the land measuring about 40 by 100 feet from Naggayi’s mother, Elizabeth Nannono, before he sold it to their father.
“Naggayi acknowledges that our father bought the land but she said she does not want us to be there. She says she will use all the money needed to evict us. We are poor people, it is only the Government that can save us,†Juma Ssekamatte, one of the sons said.
Holding a copy of the sale agreement, Ssekamatte said Naggayi uses Police officers from Kiteezi and Kira Road Police post to arrest them.
“They arrest whoever goes to the land,†he said.
However, Naggayi’s lawyers, R.C. Munyani and Company Advocates, insist that the disputed land belongs to their client.
Naggayi has another piece of land adjacent to the disputed land where she lives. She said she inherited it from her late mother, Nannono.
On July 7, Nakawa chief magistrate’s court issued an order allowing Naggayi to take possession of the land. However, the same court reversed the decision on July 11 after the defendants lodged a petition against the decision to evict them. But Naggayi went ahead and fenced off the land despite the court injunction
Ssekamatte said three of his brothers, Hussein Wasswa, Ahmed Ssenjuba and Ahmed Nsereko, had been arrested and charged with criminal trespass.
He said this was after they reported the demolition of their house to the Police and Naggayi was arrested.
Earlier, the Wakiso RDC had written a letter stopping the demolition of the house, which was defied.
After the house was demolished, Sseguya wrote another letter on August 18, asking the Kira town clerk and the division Police commander to intervene in the matter.
The 1995 Constitution states that any tenant who has been occupying a piece of land for 12 years should not be evicted.
OVER 20 residents of Wakiso district have petitioned the President seeking his intervention in a land row.
Through the Resident District Commissioner, Waggwa Sseguya, the residents of Bumbu-Kitezi village in Nangabo sub-county, all sons of the late Yusuf Male, say Betty Naggayi, demolished their house on the night of August 5, claiming ownership of a plot of land, which their father bought from John Ndebaleba in 1977.
Ndebaleba bought the land measuring about 40 by 100 feet from Naggayi’s mother, Elizabeth Nannono, before he sold it to their father.
“Naggayi acknowledges that our father bought the land but she said she does not want us to be there. She says she will use all the money needed to evict us. We are poor people, it is only the Government that can save us,†Juma Ssekamatte, one of the sons said.
Holding a copy of the sale agreement, Ssekamatte said Naggayi uses Police officers from Kiteezi and Kira Road Police post to arrest them.
“They arrest whoever goes to the land,†he said.
However, Naggayi’s lawyers, R.C. Munyani and Company Advocates, insist that the disputed land belongs to their client.
Naggayi has another piece of land adjacent to the disputed land where she lives. She said she inherited it from her late mother, Nannono.
On July 7, Nakawa chief magistrate’s court issued an order allowing Naggayi to take possession of the land. However, the same court reversed the decision on July 11 after the defendants lodged a petition against the decision to evict them. But Naggayi went ahead and fenced off the land despite the court injunction
Ssekamatte said three of his brothers, Hussein Wasswa, Ahmed Ssenjuba and Ahmed Nsereko, had been arrested and charged with criminal trespass.
He said this was after they reported the demolition of their house to the Police and Naggayi was arrested.
Earlier, the Wakiso RDC had written a letter stopping the demolition of the house, which was defied.
After the house was demolished, Sseguya wrote another letter on August 18, asking the Kira town clerk and the division Police commander to intervene in the matter.
The 1995 Constitution states that any tenant who has been occupying a piece of land for 12 years should not be evicted.