The bitter land fight going on between city tycoon and businessman Hamis Kiggundu aka Ham and Buganda Kingdom has taken a new bitter fight as Kigo Land matters get more complicated,
Last Friday, Ham through his real estate company- Kiham Enterprises (U) Limited deployed casual laborers and grader operators who started excavating and clearing a 140 acre prime land in Kigo, which Mengo clearly maintains is Kabaka’s land.
Ham co-owns the real estate company with his uncle Edward Nakibinge Kaggwa ( Ham owns 99 percent shares whereas Nakibinge owns 1 percent).
The contested land is located on the stretch lying between Victoria Serena Hotel and Mirembe Villas.
Ham Enterprises proprietor justifies his claim over the 140 acres of land on grounds that the same was sold to him by Wakiso District Land Board some years ago under the following particulars: “WAK6104 Folio 25 Block 273 Plot 23977 at Kigo.”
“The Kabaka entourage and that of Ham spent the whole day confronting each other and exchanging bitter words as Police intervened to protect and enable what Simon Kabogoza, the Buganda Land Board CEO calls the illegal activities that were being carried out by the agents of the city tycoon who was equally on scene. He kept saying: “I’m here to give back up to my uncle Nakibinge Kaggwa.”
On his part, Nakibinge said he was a Ugandan with a right to participate in the developing of his country by coming up with big investments adding that he wouldn’t accept blackmail, propaganda or even threats by Kabaka’s supporters and subjects,” Mulengera wrote last week.
“The Uganda National Roads Authority team, comprising of William Matovu and other employees, was at hand to corroborate everything Nakibinge Kaggwa and his boss Ham were saying to justify their claim against the Kabaka of Buganda. They had a curiously-issued directive from UNRA which was signed by Frank Rutebarika who serves as the Kampala Station Manager for the Roads Authority,” reports claim.
However, Kabaka through Owek Kabogoza, has since written to key government offices demanding action against Ham whom he accuses of trying to grab his land.
Mengo/BLB also protested to the Ministry of Lands demanding cancelation of the tycoon’s title which the Kabaka maintains was criminally issued.
