Orphans have reported Uganda’s ambassador to china, Rutega Solomon to president Museveni that he is using his office to grab their land situated in Mutungo.
Edward Kalemba Luzira and his son Sam Mulonde reported to president Museveni’s office that Rutega and a group of other government officials grabbed the land of their late mother and grand mother respectively, Tereza Nalugwa in 2001.
The orphans allege that Rutega went to Ms Tereza Nalugwa’s home in Mutungo in 2011 and unlawfully evicted her from her land and made her to sleep under a mango tree, where she died afterwards.
Edward Kalemba says that the ambassador did not pay his mother any compensation for her house and other developments that was on the land. The law requires that a tenant can only be evicted after the tenant has been paid compensation.
Ms Nalugwa died last year but still the ambassador and his friends identified as only Bwoki, Dr. Sebuyira, Madila, Isaac and Andrew Mwenda constructed on her land new structures without the consent of her son and grand son. Kalemba says that his mother received this land in early 1950’s from Sir Edward Mutesa II. She used to pay the land tax (busuulu) for all those years. He says when their land was grabbed they reported the matter to area LCI chairman, Minister of land and Environment, RDC Nakawa, LCIII chairman Nakawa, Buganda Land Board, and Kitintale police station but no action was ever been taken. Kalemba therefore decided to report this matter to president Museveni. The Special Presidential Assistant, Ms Resty Nakayenga Kiguli confirmed the development and said that the president’s office is trying to help the orphans to reach a peaceful solution with Rutega in the following way: compensation of destroyed property and or re-instating their rightful ownership as bonafide occupants of the land in question.
Nakayenga says that so many lawyers the orphans hired in help them pulled out of the case under mysterious reasons. Some of the lawyers who pulled out of these case include Kimanje Nsibambi advocates, Kizito Lumu and co. advocates, Ms Nangwala, Rezida and co advocates, Kityo and company advocates, Kiyingi and company advocates, FIDA Uganda.
Ms Tereza Nalugwa before she died she had given the powers of attorney to his son Edward Kalemba Luzira. She gave him the powers to manage the affairs of her land in Mutungo including legal proceedings in the presence of the registrar of documents in 2004 May 30th.