It all started on 25th June 2011 when Salongo Joel Kizza claimed to be the father of Dr. Victoria Nabule Mukasa, the owner of the land on block 12 plot 655 measuring 2.67 hectares (6 acres) went to Cosy Homes Ltd and told its managing director Paul Kyasanku and operations manager, Abbey Kitenda that his daughter Ms Victoria who resides in Namibia had given him powers to sell her land located at Mengo Kisenyi in Kampala.
He also convinced Kitenda and Kyasanku that the land in question was measuring 2.67 acres and that the land was being sold at 7bn shillings. Kyasanku and Kitenda afterwards paid 25m as commitment fee in the office of one Mbajja Rukia of Mbajja Nansukusa and co. advocates on general post office building 4th floor. Mbajja also reportedly received another 50m from Cosy Homes ltd on behalf of salongo. On 29th June this year she was also paid $10,000 according to the receipts our reporter has seen. After finding out that the land which was being sold at 7bn was 2.67 acres but not 6 acres as the seller had earlier told the buyers, the management of Cosy Homes opted to pull out of the transaction. When they approached Rukia Mbajja, she told them that she had given the money to Mze Salongo Kizza, the father of Dr. Victoria Mukasa. But Salongo Kizza was sick therefore he sent his two sons Norman Kiwanuka Magambo, who alleged to be the proprietor of Wits College Namulanda on Kampala Entebbe road, Margret Sempa, who also purported to be the daughter to Mze Kizza and one John Serubiri, who also claims to be a son to Mze Kizza.
Then Magambo, Serubiri and Margret Sempa came in and promised to pay back the money their dad had received from Rukia Mbajja as part payment. Rukia Mbajja was arrested in November last year but she was released on a police bond after making a statement that she gave the money to Mze Kizza whom she couldn’t trace and that even the two sons and a daughter who came to stand in for the father could not be traced.
Of recent, some land brokers approached a friend of Kyasanku that someone was selling him a piece of land which was later found out to be the same plot in the names of Victoria Mukasa and they were at the last stage of paying. So the suspects were arrested when they had gone to pick the one billion shillings as part payment and it came out that it was the same people who had conned Cosy Homes. They were arrested and taken to CPS, then to old Kampala police. Dr. Victoria also flew in yesterday and denounced knowledge of the suspects.
The spokesperson of police for Kampala, Ibin Senkumbi confirmed the development and said that their case is registered at CPS as CRB/49/41/2011. He says the suspects were charged with obtaining money by false pretence, forging documents and criminal trespass.