The chairman of the bibanja holders at Kyasa village in Namayumba Sub County, Wakiso district and veteran Ali Kiwendo has asked government to use the land fund and purchase land for the people of Kyasa.
According to Kiwendo, government’s intervention to buy land for the people will solve the rampant land wrangles in the area.
Kiwendo was apointed by president Museveni when he visited Kyasa in 2019 and was informed of the suffering the people go through due to land wrangles and he promised to intervene into the matters.
Kiwendo is currently accusing Obed Mwebesa of taking his five acres of land.
When contacted over the matter, Mwebesa clarified that when he bought the land way back in 2001 from Edwin Mujjuzi, Kiwendo was not among the tenants on his land.
“I know all my tenants and Ali is not one of them. I have five recognized tenants, the ones I found there and they are not harassed,” said Mwebesa.
Mwebesa even issued a letter to Kiwendo warning him against trespassing on his land at Kyasa.
Mwebesa also presented an agreement which Edwin Mujjuzi made for Kiwendo indicating that his land is at Namayumba and that he was going to process a land title for him.
The agreement was made on 25/April/2008 and it indicated that Kiwendo’s land measures 5.23 acres.
It was from this point that Mwebesa pointed out that Kiwendo should ask Edwin Mujjuzi to give him his land.
When contacted over the matter, Mujjuzi pointed out that he sold 200 acres of land to Obed Mwebesa and Winfred Niwagaba.
According to Mujjuzi , by the time he sold the land to the two people, Kiwendo had not formalized his tenant ship and that land was vacant.
Asked whether he knows Kiwendo as one of his squatters on his land at Kyasa, Mujjuzi accepted adding that he even demands him 3m shs for Kiwendo to formalize his tenant ship.
However, Kiwendo stated that he paid the 3m to Kiwendo remaining with a balance of only one million.
Asked where Kiwendo’s land is, Mujjuzi could not locate it saying that by the time he sold the land there were no tenants.
The LC1 chairman Ben Kasumba said president Museveni had promised to help the people of Kyasa.
He revealed that Mujjuzi sold off the land without giving the squatters a chance to buy their bibanja.
The chairman pointed out that people were poorly compensated and made to sign agreements which saw their land taken.
He added that when they run to courts of law, cases take long to be concluded.
Shortly after the president’s promise to bail out people, the minister of state for lands Persis Namuganza visited the people of Kyasa.
According to Kasumba, Namuganza assured them that all of them will go back to their bibanja but the matter was interrupted by the CORONAVIRUS outbreak which resulted in a lock down.