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Gomba: Notorious Land Grabber Charged, Remanded

By Patience NatukundaNovember 15, 2023No Comments
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The suspect, Amos Mwesigye, appearing before the Masaka Chief Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
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The State House Anti-Corruption Unit working with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arraigned before the Masaka Chief Magistrates Court a one Amos Mwesigye, a serial land grabber who has been operating in Gomba District.

Mwesigye was charged with obtaining money by false pretence after he duped a one Steven Kagyeni in a purported 120-acre land sale.

“It is alleged that in 2020, the accused, together with some family members of the late Nasanairi Kinalwa, connived and purportedly purchased 120 acres of titled land from them yet they were not the owners of the said land,” the State House Anti-Corruption Unit said in a statement on Wednesday.

The statement further noted that Mwesigye would later fraudulently sell part of the land to other people in order to frustrate the interest of the registered owner Frank Rushanganwa.

“The suspect has also been using some government officials to subdue the interests of his victims. He has been remanded,” the statements adds.

The statement, however, does not disclose details of the said government officials who were conniving with the suspect.

PrimeNews understands that Mwesigye was in a similar scandal in 2017, in Kyankwanzi District. The land in this case was a 2,560acre estate which belonged to a one Kyeyune Lwembawo, who, before his passing in 1942, entrusted the land to his 3 children through a will.

Unfortunately, 2 of the children died years later leaving ownership to Nanyonjo Bensuseba, the daughter who, in 2017, was already in the twilight of her life as well. Eyeing gaps in a land already compromised by unknown grabbers, Mwesigye approached Nanyonjo’s family offering help to purportedly recover the land that had been unlawfully partitioned.

Typical of his dealings, Mwesigye is said to have connived with officials at Mubende High Court to issue an eviction notice to a seemingly ghost litigant since no respondent by that name ever appeared in court throughout the case proceedings. It was also established that Mwesigye used the notice to evict a person who was not part of the case.

Land grab­bing has been defined as an incident where few pow­er­ful in­di­vid­u­als both multi­na­tional and do­mes­tic in­vestors grab, lease or re­place com­mu­ni­ties and ac­quire land that right­fully be­longs to the poor for their own in­ter­est.

“Par­lia­ment through its com­mit­tee of phys­i­cal in­fra­struc­ture has been pre­sented  with over 40 pend­ing pe­ti­tions on ir­reg­u­lar al­lo­ca­tion of Land from both multi­na­tional in­vestors and gov­ern­ment and en­croach­ments  in the name of de­vel­op­ment that have been pil­ing over the years,” Parliament Watch, a Parliament monitoring initiative of the Centre for Policy Analysis, notes in an article on land grabbing.

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