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The family of the late Muwanga Omuweesi has accused the Madhvani Group Limited of tormenting them and destroying their properties in violation of a Court Order in regards to the dispute over ownership of prime Nakigalala land on Entebbe Express Highway Road in Wakiso District.Madhvani Group Limited is in court over accusations of grabbing the land and fraudulently changing its tenure from Mailo land to freehold to deprive the family of the deceased Buganda chief of their interest.The company is jointly accused with its subsidiary; Kakira Sugar Works Limited and the Commissioner for Land registration in the case that has spanned more than a decade in the court system since 2013.In 2022, the Land Division of the High Court issued a temporary Order restraining the agents, workers and employees of Madhvani group limited from claiming, selling, alienating, and or mortgaging the land at Nakigalala, Kajjansi in Wakiso district until determination of the pending case.The Administrators of the late Muwanga Omuweesi; Benjamin Kalumba Ssebuliba and Robert Kayongo are embroiled in a protracted legal battle for ownership of the land on Block 374 measuring 306 acres.However, family members have now accused Madhvani Group Limited of tormenting them through assaulting them, arresting and destroying their graveyards in violation of the court orders.Alexandria Nanteza, one of the grandchildren of the late Muwanga said that the workers of Madhvani Group Limited have severally attacked them with machetes, sticks and other weapons on top of destroying their properties, houses, toilet and crops.“They arrogantly came and cut down our crops. They have now resorted to spraying deadly chemicals which have destroyed our food yet there is a court order which we highly respect,” she said.Nanteza said that in addition, the Madhvani employees have destroyed part of their remaining ancestral graveyard to destroy the evidence which has been on that land for decades after learning that soon, the court shall visit the locus.Jane Nantege, another granddaughter to the late Buganda chief also narrated how Madhvani’s male employees strangled her while warning her that they had instructions from their master Madhvani to push them off the land so that he expands his tea estate.“They always boast that even if we report to the police, nothing will happen because they are powerful. But we lost a graveyard of more than 125 of our ancestors who were illegally exhumed and taken to unknown places and the few remaining ones are also under threat,” she cried.While appealing to authorities to intervene and save the situation to enable their deceased parents to rest peacefully, Nantege stated that the manner in which the employees of Madhvani Group Limited treat them is untenable.Family members state that several complaints have since been reported to Kajjansi Police and the Police Headquarters including the Criminal Investigations Directorate but no action was taken.“We only receive threats whenever they learn that a complaint has been reported against Madhvani Group,” Nantege said.When contacted, Madhvani Group Financial Controller identified as Origit who is supervising the workers on the tea estate first dodged our calls after claiming that we were calling a wrong number before switching off.But minutes after, he called back claiming that he was in a meeting, and he still declined to comment on the matter.“I do not know about that matter and I do not give comments,” Origit said.BACKGROUNDAccording to court documents, Kalumba and the family estate contend that their great grandfather Muwanga Omweesi is the owner of the mailo land in dispute. They claim that he received the land from the then King of Buganda Kabaka Chwa II.Documents further show that a title was created on October 20, 1913 and a certificate of registration was raised and sealed as FC9662 by the British Colonial administration.It is alleged that a freehold title was also later created in 1925 under Uganda Rubber and Coffee Estates Limited and Nsimbe Estates Mawokota Uganda but does not indicate termination of the mailo title., https://onobwino.com/madhvani-bosses-in-trouble-after-former-buganda-kingdom-chiefs-family-accuse-them-of-tormenting-them-and-destroying-their-properties/
