How Tycoon Ham acquired 140 acres at Shs 100,000 in Kigo

 

LUCKY HAM GOT KIGO LAND AT 1K PER ACRE.

The raging battle for 140 acres of land in Kigo between businessman Hamis Kiggundu and Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II has entered its nastiest phase yet.

In a shocking turnaround, the businessman has laid another firm claim to the land. In March this year, Buganda kingdom stopped Kiggundu from constructing a road between Mirembe Villas and Serena hotel in Kigo to gain access to the disputed land.

He claimed to be working with the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) to construct this road off Entebbe Expressway but UNRA immediately distanced itself and withdrew the permit it had issued to him.

Mengo insisted that the land claimed by Kiggundu is Kabaka’s and all titles being brandished by Kiggundu were acquired fraudulently. Kiggundu would later denounce his interest in the said land saying, “I am a Muganda and cannot be seen to be fighting the Kabaka whom I respect a lot.”

Mengo then hired two law firms; K&K and Sebalu and Lule Advocates to begin the process of cancelling the freehold titles that had been issued to Kiggundu through his company, Kiham Enterprises.

In a turn of events, when the cancelling hearing commenced at the office of the Commissioner, Land Registration (CLR), Kiggundu came with a team of lawyers led by Fred Muwema and insisted that the land in question was legally acquired and the Kabaka wanted to steal it from him.

In their defense, Kiggundu’s lawyers claimed that their client obtained the land through Wakiso district and the titles fall in the Lake Victoria area, not Kabaka’s land.

“The area where our client’s freehold titles are situate is part and parcel of the total lake area and constitutes former public land vested in the government pursuant to Article 244 (1) (a) of the Constitution,” wrote Kiggundu’s lawyers Muwema and Co. Advocates to the CLR on May 12, 2022.

“We contend that our client’s freehold titles are not liable to be cancelled because they were lawfully issued to it by Wakiso district land board and they do not overlap any Mailo Land.”

The emerging responses, however, contradict Section 44 of the Land Act. This section of the Land Act provides that the

“Government or a local government shall hold in trust for the people and protect natural lakes, rivers, groundwater, natural ponds, natural streams, wetlands, forest reserves, national parks and any other land reserved for ecological and touristic purposes for the common good of the citizens of Uganda.”

It further adds that “The Government or a local government shall not lease out or otherwise alienate any natural resource referred to in this section.”

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Through its investigative journalist Alex Nsubuga, Kabaka’s CBS radio has joined the war against tycoon Hammis Kiggundu who is once again at war with the Kabaka of Buganda whose land interests throughout the Kingdom are always championed by the Buganda Land Board (BLB) whose officials the tycoon’s supporters have been busy haranguing on social media platforms.

The latest blockbuster by CBS radio is an interview Alex Nsubuga conducted with a top official of the Wakiso District Land Office/Board whose disputed minutes Hammis Kiggundu is supposed to have relied on to get his titles for the Kigo land issued. In the interview, which Kabaka’s radio has already broadcast to millions of its loyal listeners, the Wakiso official makes it clear that what Mr. Kiggundu keeps dangling as his land title relating to the 140 acres in Kigo, is actually very inauthentic because the entire transaction, leading to its issuance, was preceded by fraud implying it can’t stand.

Through its investigative journalist Alex Nsubuga, Kabaka’s CBS radio has joined the war against tycoon Hammis Kiggundu who is once again at war with the Kabaka of Buganda whose land interests throughout the Kingdom are always championed by the Buganda Land Board (BLB) whose officials the tycoon’s supporters have been busy haranguing on social media platforms.

Even the authenticity of Gilbert Kasozi on this correspondence remains disputed-by the way.

The latest blockbuster by CBS radio is an interview Alex Nsubuga conducted with a top official of the Wakiso District Land Office/Board whose disputed minutes Hammis Kiggundu is supposed to have relied on to get his titles for the Kigo land issued. In the interview, which Kabaka’s radio has already broadcast to millions of its loyal listeners, the Wakiso official makes it clear that what Mr. Kiggundu keeps dangling as his land title relating to the 140 acres in Kigo, is actually very inauthentic because the entire transaction, leading to its issuance, was preceded by fraud implying it can’t stand.

The official explains that the Wakiso District land office couldn’t have issued such a freehold land title for anyone regarding Kigo land because everybody who works there knows that all the land in the Kigo neighborhood is Kabaka’s mailo. The official makes reference to letters, published on this news website months ago, clearly indicating that the signatures on the instrument from which Mr. Kiggundu is supposed to have derived his title were all forgeries. The official tells CBS listeners, in black and white, that the signature of the Wakiso DLB Chairman on those documents was forged just like that of the Secretary of the same Land Board.