By Angel Lubowa
ENTEBBE
When they failed to control their appetite for the promised land to end the dispute they carried the law into their hands and we’re arrested.
The no nonsense State House Anti Corruption Unit working together with Uganda police and the office of the DPP Friday 14,2025 arraigned eight suspects before the Entebbe Magistrates Court,on charges of forcible entry, forcible detainer, malicious damage to property, and theft.
The accused include; Sserungaya Alex Mukisa, Kajubi Peter, Ddungu Henry, Nnaku Ramanthan, Kaweesi Godfrey, Ngesa Robert, Mukiibi Asuman, and Mugweri Joseph, among others who are still at large.
Court heard that on January 21, 2025, the suspects unlawfully entered a 68-acre plot of land located on Block 428, Plot 192 (formerly Plot 22), which belongs to Professor Eleanor Maxine Ankrah.
They destroyed 18 acres of trees and crops and maliciously damaged property on the land.
The suspects acted under the instructions of the alleged bibanja (tenant) owners, including Lutaaya William, Nnalongo Kaita Bakumba Winfred, Kalenzo Edward, Osowa Anthony, and Robert Kayigwa.
These bibanja holders had entered into a consent agreement in the High Court that stipulated the complainant would identify the 18 acres to be shared among them.
However, on February 8 and 9, 2025, before the complainant could show them their designated portions, the same group, led by Ssebagula Aaron, a former convict with a history of land grabbing and fraud forcibly entered the land, cut down crops and trees, which they sold to unknown buyers.
It was then that State House Anti corruption unit and other anti graft agencies quickly responded, and arrested some of the individuals involved.
Investigations are ongoing to apprehend Ssebagula and his associates.
In court they denied the charges and were remanded till 28/02/ 2025.
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