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The revision resulted from an application filed by Dr Kasasa’s children led by Moses Kanyike Kasasa and Anwar Sempira Kasasa challenging the settlement which a section of their siblings reached with the administrators of the estate of Sir Edward Mutesa the former Kabaka of Buganda.
Five Justices of the Supreme Court led by Justice Percy Night Tuhaise, and others who include Justice Christopher Madrama, Justice Catherine Bamugemereire, Justice Mike Chibita and Justice Monica Mugenyi are revising the settlement agreement that former Chief Justice Owiny Dollo mediated concerning Dr. Muhammad Buwule Kasasa’s multibillion estate.
The revision resulted from an application filed by Dr Kasasa’s children led by Moses Kanyike Kasasa and Anwar Sempira Kasasa challenging the settlement which a section of their siblings reached with the administrators of the estate of Sir Edward Mutesa the former Kabaka of Buganda.
In their application, the applicants maintain that Justice Dollo’s Mediation Settlement Agreement dated January 14, 2026 is a nullity and violation of the mandatory testamentary instructions of their father.
In their affidavit evidences, the applicants added that the controversial settlement agreement violates Dr Kasasa’s will especially Clause 4.4 which requires that for all material decisions to be made on his estate, the administrators and other beneficiaries should first consult and get approval from the family advisors who are Juliet Nakato and Dr. Sam Mayanja a seasoned lawyer who is also the state minister in charge of lands.
“To suggest otherwise would be to amend the Will by judicial decree, which this Court cannot do. It’s upon this background that the Applicants filed this Application to have the mediation Settlement Agreement set aside, the preliminary objection is thus misconceived, as it goes into the merits of the Application being disguised as a preliminary objection,” the applicant’s rejoinder reads in part.
Court documents also state that Dr. Mayanja opposed the terms of the mediation Settlement Agreement upon which he was supposed to be sought for further clarification before being signed but he was ignored and the deal sealed.
In the letter dated 27th October, 2025 to Dr Kasasa’s heir and other estate administrators, Dr. Mayanja expressed his disapproval to the proposed terms stating that he was unable to understand why the estate of Dr. Kasasa would be required to compromise half of its Mutungo hill land measuring a square mailo as compensation to Mutesa Estate yet Dr Kasasa successfully defended the primary recovery suit and also defended its proprietary rights formally recognized by the Government.
The documents further read that the said settlement agreement has not yet been consented to because it should first be approved by the Supreme Court which has the inherent jurisdiction powers to refuse the adoption of its entirety and declare it illegal.
The applicants told Court that they attended the said mediation on September 24, 2025, and under protest, specifically raised the concern that they were being marginalized.
“Their objection was not to the concept of mediation per say but to the fact that substantive terms were being negotiated without their input. The same draft mediation Settlement Agreement which was shared with the Applicants during mediation sessions is the same Agreement which was finally signed despite the Applicants’ protest,” the submission reads in part.
Court documents further read that according to the available records, Dr. Kasasa acquired the said Mutungo hill land in 1978 and was recognized by the Court of Appeal as a bonafide purchaser and later the Government of Uganda itself entered into a Shs26.4bn compensation agreement for the same land.
“The 1st – 4th (the administrators of Mutesa’s estate) Respondents have not provided any legal or moral justification for surrendering half of this land. Their rationale “litigation fatigue “is not a valid ground to give away asset’s worth tens of billions of shillings,” the documents read.
However, the administrators of the Mutesa estate who include; Nalinnya Dorothy Nasolo, Nalinnya Sarah Kagere, Prince David Kintu Wasajja all siblings of Ronald Muwenda Mutebi the Kabaka of Buganda insist that Kasasa fraudulently obtained Mutungo hill.
Documents state that Kasasa bought the said land from Barclays Bank currently Absa and before he bought it, it was transferred from Mutesa, to Benjamin Kwemalamala a top a tycoon in Masaka who mortgaged it and later registered it in the name of Victoria Properties Limited. Victoria Properties later failed to pay the loan they got from Barclays Bank which forced the bank to sell it to recover it’s money. Dr. Kasasa bought the land from Barclays Bank now Absa.
, https://eastafricanwatch.net/trouble-as-supreme-court-moves-to-revise-justice-dollos-settlement-agreement-on-dr-kasasas-multibillion-mutungo-hill-land/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trouble-as-supreme-court-moves-to-revise-justice-dollos-settlement-agreement-on-dr-kasasas-multibillion-mutungo-hill-land
