Naguru investors to withdraw case against govt
Jun 04, 2010
LOCAL investors who acquired land in the Naguru-Nakwa estate have asked the Government to give them two weeks to withdraw a court case they had filed against it.
By Barbara Among
LOCAL investors who acquired land in the Naguru-Nakwa estate have asked the Government to give them two weeks to withdraw a court case they had filed against it.
The group said this during a recent meeting with the local government state minister Perez Ahabwe.
The investors went to court to block the Government’s cancellation of their land allocation at Naguru-Nakawa housing estate.
Last month President Yoweri Museveni directed that the investors’ land titles that were erroneously issued be cancelled as advised by the Attorney General last September. He suggested that the investors be allocated land that belongs to the Uganda Railways Corporation in Nsambya.
In the letter April 30 letter, he directed to transfer the custody of the land to Uganda Land commission. “This should pave way for the allocations to all the private local investors whose titles were issued in error in Naguru-Nakawa upon cancellation of those titles.â€
Musevni said his directive followed a February meeting at State House Entebbe, attended by the local investors in the Naguru-Nakawa re-development project.
The Government in 2007 signed a contract with UK-based Opec Prime Properties Ltd to re-develop the 138 acres of land into a $300m satellite town with low-cost houses for the 1,745 tenants.
The re-development that was meant to begin in 2003 stalled following a standoff between the Government and the tenants.
As the dispute raged on, six small developers acquired titles for plots on the same land. Tile dealers CTM got five acres, former footballer William Nkemba got six acres, the Islamic University got 10 acres and the National Library of Uganda got an unspecified plot number.
Ten acres were given to House of Dawuda and the Libyan Cultural Centre.
The Attorney General in September advised that these titles be cancelled prompting the developers to go to court to retain them.
LOCAL investors who acquired land in the Naguru-Nakwa estate have asked the Government to give them two weeks to withdraw a court case they had filed against it.
The group said this during a recent meeting with the local government state minister Perez Ahabwe.
The investors went to court to block the Government’s cancellation of their land allocation at Naguru-Nakawa housing estate.
Last month President Yoweri Museveni directed that the investors’ land titles that were erroneously issued be cancelled as advised by the Attorney General last September. He suggested that the investors be allocated land that belongs to the Uganda Railways Corporation in Nsambya.
In the letter April 30 letter, he directed to transfer the custody of the land to Uganda Land commission. “This should pave way for the allocations to all the private local investors whose titles were issued in error in Naguru-Nakawa upon cancellation of those titles.â€
Musevni said his directive followed a February meeting at State House Entebbe, attended by the local investors in the Naguru-Nakawa re-development project.
The Government in 2007 signed a contract with UK-based Opec Prime Properties Ltd to re-develop the 138 acres of land into a $300m satellite town with low-cost houses for the 1,745 tenants.
The re-development that was meant to begin in 2003 stalled following a standoff between the Government and the tenants.
As the dispute raged on, six small developers acquired titles for plots on the same land. Tile dealers CTM got five acres, former footballer William Nkemba got six acres, the Islamic University got 10 acres and the National Library of Uganda got an unspecified plot number.
Ten acres were given to House of Dawuda and the Libyan Cultural Centre.
The Attorney General in September advised that these titles be cancelled prompting the developers to go to court to retain them.