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KCCA investigating lawyer Masembe, Gen Muhwezi and 100 others over illegal land conversion 

Mubiru Ivan by Mubiru Ivan
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Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) is investigating circumstances under which 103 property owners in the city converted ownership of their plots from leasehold to freehold.

The move caused the authority a financial loss of billions of shillings.

The prominent people on the list include Gaster Lule Ntake, Mansoor Yanga, Tom Mugenga, John Bosco Muwonge, Yonasani Kanyomozi, Maj Gen Jim Muhwezi and city lawyer Timothy Masembe Kanyerezi.

According to a report from KCCA’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), the authority has failed to recover ground rent arrears since 2011 due to land ownership conversions from leasehold to freehold. By 2011, the arrears stood at Shs187.2 million but as of today, they stand at over Shs1.18 billion.

Saturday Vision states that the directorate of revenue brought the matter to the attention of the KCCA PAC in a memorandum dated July 26, 2019 where it revealed that owners of 103 properties had not remitted their ground rent claiming that the authority was no longer their landlord.

The committee, in their report to the council, argued that the conversion was done fraudulently with some members of the Kampala District Land Board (KDLB) which is chaired by lawyer Yusuf Nsibambi.

The committee also observed that most of the properties were converted from leasehold to freehold without conversion minutes from KDLB.

Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago during a council meeting on July 7, said the directorate of revenue was encountering challenges of collecting ground rent from property owners who claim that their properties were converted from leasehold to freehold.

“It was discovered that the properties were converted after KDLB halted issuing of minutes converting leasehold to freehold effective April, 1, 2015 and other conversions were purported to have been effected  after the stated period,” said Lukwago.

Adding, “Ground rent was a major source of the authority’s revenue and continued conversions greatly undermine this revenue source.”

Meanwhile, Yanga, one of the accused property owners admitted converting his property saying that he made the changes legally.

He advised KCCA to focus on new programmes aimed at developing the city.


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