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Nakigalala Land Dispute: Madhavan Group Accused Of Tormenting, Destroying Family Properties
The family of the late Muwanga Omuweesi has accused the Madhavan Group Limited of tormenting them, and destroying their properties in violation of a Court Order in regard to the dispute over ownership of prime Nakigalala land on Entebbe Express Highway Road in Wakiso District.
Madhavan 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 over 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 Madhavan 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 Madhavan 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 Madhavan Group Limited have severally attacked them with machetes, sticks and other threatening weapons thereby assaulting and destroying their property, among them house, toilet and crops.
“They arrogantly come and cut down our crops and they have since resorted to spraying with deadly chemicals which has killed our food security yet there is a court order which we highly respect,” she said.
Nanteze said that in addition, the Madhavan 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 Kabaka’s chief also narrated how Madhavan male employees strangled her warning that they have instructions from their master, Madhavan to push them off the land to expand his tea estate.
“They boast to us that even if we report to the police, nothing can 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 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 states that the manner in which the employees of Madhivani Group Limited treats 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 Madhivani Group,” Nantege said.
When contacted, Madhavan Group Financial Controller identified as Origit who is supervising the workers on the tea estate, he first dodged the call.
He claimed that it was a wrong number before switching off.
But minutes after, he called back claiming that he was in a meeting, he still declined to comment on the matter.
“I do not know about that matter and I do not give comments,” Origit said.
Background
According 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.
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