Buganda Land Board now goes for tycoon Kiggundu’s Ham Towers after Kigo land

KAMPALA-UGANDA/NEWSDAY: The Buganda Land Board (BLB) has escalated the war against businessman Hamis Kiggundu with the latest move attempting to take his multi-billion Ham Towers at Makerere.

BLB’s Managing Director Simon Kabogoza on December 6 wrote to the Ministry of lands commissioner for Land Registration seeking to cancel what he called illegal leases that were issued to Kiggundu by the Kampala City Council.

Kabogoza says that BLB detected a fraudulent lease offer to Ham after new plots were created over Kabaka’s official Mailo title located on Block 9 plot 440 at Makerere and created three plots 923, 924 and 925.

Part of Ham Towers is located on plot 923 and it is which BLB is now seeking to takeover.

Sources said that there have been frantic efforts to resolve the row but both sides failed to agree. The escalation is now said to have come after another ongoing row at Kigo land which BLB wants to take,  to the high contestation of Ham.

In a letter to the Ministry of Lands, BLB is also seeking cancellation of land at Kansanga located on Block 254 plot 82 which is owned by Ham.

KAbogoza said that KCC issued the lease to Kiggundu yet the rightful controlling authority was Uganda Land Commission.

“We think that these fundamental errors require rectification of the register,” Kabogozza’s letter reads.

Ham is currently battling a land fight involving the Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi and he has filed an appeal against a ruling by the Commissioner Land Registration to cancel the businessman’s titles on a 140 acres piece of land located at Kigo .

The land is comprised in Kyadondo Block 273 Plots 23974, 23975, 23976, 239777 subdivided from Plot 23977, subdivided from Plot 23720 and the ministry of lands concluded it was illegally subdivided and must be cancelled.

In the Kigo row both sides have traded insults with Ham labelling some BLB officials as thieves hiding behind the Kabaka to steal.