The Ministry of Lands and Housing has canceled the titles for the controversial piece of land that is being fought for city businessman Hamis Kiggundu of Ham Enterprises and Buganda government at Kigo in Wakiso district.
“By the powers conferred upon me under S.91 of the Land Act, having found that the certificate of titles comprised in Kyadondo Block 273 plots 23974, 23975, 23976, and 23977 subdivided from plot 23720 were illegally issued, I hereby order that the same be cancelled and expunged from the register book forthwith,” Baker Mugaino, the acting commissioner for land registration at the Ministry of Lands and Housing said in a September, 6 directive.
Controversy
The said land brew controversy between the businessman and Buganda kingdom over the ownership of the same.
Earlier this year, Buganda kingdom stopped Kiggundu from constructing a road between Mirembe Villas and Serena hotel in Kigo to gain access to the disputed land after he had claimed that he was working with the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) to construct this road off Entebbe Expressway.
However, roads authority, UNRA immediately distanced itself and withdrew the permit it had issued to him.
More controversy brew as Mengo insisted the land that Kiggundu claimed was theirs.
To this, Buganda Kingdom petitioned the Ministry of Lands seeking cancellation of freehold titles measuring over 140 acres overlapping Kabaka’s mailo land that were in Ham’s name.
In defence, Ham insisted that the land belongs to him.
“The area where our client’s freehold titles are situated is part and parcel of the total lake area and constitutes former public land vested in the government pursuant to Article 244 (1) (a) of the Constitution,” Ham’s lawyers said.
However, the latest direction by the Lands Ministry to have the land titles canceled seems to have put the matter to rest .
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