The KCCA director in charge of Human Resource, Ms Jenifer Kaggwa has reportedly defied court over land owned by Kansanga market vendors. This was a result of a row over a piece of land in Kampala where Kansanga market is situated. Ms Kaggwa was recently taken to court by the vendors over reported encroachment on their land measuring 0.03 decimals.
Consequently, the chief magistrate Makindye, Charles Serubuga issued an interim order on July 13th 2012 stopping ms Kaggwa from tampering with the market land until the main suit is heard. She was served with the order which she reportedly defied and went ahead to set up a storied building. This promoted the police led by the OC Kabalagala police station, Patrick Baluku to arrest Ms Kaggwa’s workers on site.
Surprisingly Ms Kaggwa resumed work a week later saying that the order from court did not directly concern her developmental plans. The documents in court show that this said land situated on plot 843 block 254 is owned by Kasanga market vendors whose lease they got in 2000 and have a 99 year lease. When the wrangles started the vendors requested for opening of boundaries of the disputed land and this was done in May 2012, according to Kampala district land acting staff surveyor Okia Okiso. After opening the boundaries it was discovered that ms Kaggwa had encroached on the market land by 4.7 metres on the frontage and 2.3 metres at the rear. According to documents in court, the KCCA acting director Physical Planning, Joseph Semambo gave Kaggwa a temporally permit to start construction work of her storied building which is a rare occurrence in KCCA planning procedures.
It can be recalled that the dispute on this land has not started today, for in the year 2005, a brand new KCC pickup was burnt to ashes as the dispute simmered by goons led by one Aisha Nabukenya who is believed to have sold to Kaggwa. In 2007 the former IGG Raphael Baku affirmed the correct Kansanga market boundaries.
However ms Kaggwa in her written statement of defence, denied each and every allegation of trespass and avers that the construction of a storied building is within the boundaries of her land. She also says that her building plan was dully approved by the defunct KCC and she was accordingly allowed to commence construction on her land. Ms Kaggwa also avers that her boundary marks have been intact for a long time and that the surveyors later tampered with her boundaries without consulting her consent.