Kampala businessman Moses Namatiti, through his company Namex Ministries Limited, has sued Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa and businessman Hamis Kiggundu over alleged land grabbing and the unlawful demolition of property.
In step with court paperwork, the two are jointly sued alongside the Kampala District Land Board, Kampala Capital Metropolis Authority (KCCA), and Kiham Enterprises Uganda Limited in Civil Suit No. 0049 of 2026.
By its lawyers, Kintu Nteza & Co. Advocates, Namex Ministries Limited contends that in 2007 it became once approached by the management committee of Nakivubo Settlement Main College searching out a partnership to invent a sanitation facility to be used by students, lecturers, and interior reach families.
Namex says it agreed to the proposal on condition that it might possibly possibly be allowed to invent separate industrial objects — including outlets, offices, and public sanitation facilities — on the western cessation of the college land adjoining to St. Balikuddembe (Owino) Market.
The proposal became once therefore offered to the then Kampala Metropolis Council (KCC), the controlling authority of the college, for approval. In step with the company, KCC, throughout the Senior Well-known Town Clerk, licensed the proposal and later produced the draw and architectural drawings for a four-storey building, including a Invoice of Portions and a graduation letter which had been handed to Namex Ministries for implementation.
Namex Ministries Limited says it fully implemented the project by constructing the four-storey building in accordance with KCC specs for the mutual income of the college, the surrounding neighborhood, and the company.
The company additional claims that it has occupied and operated its investments on the land since 2007 till the evening of March 7, 2026, when businessman Hamis Kiggundu allegedly deployed safety operatives and other folks who extinct heavy equipment to shatter the constructions sooner than looting merchandise from the premises.
By its lawyers, Namex Ministries accuses the Kampala District Land Board of fraudulently processing a land title in favour of Deputy Speaker Tayebwa for land it claims had been occupied and utilized by the company for nearly two decades. The company argues that the land became once not accessible for lease and that the title issued to Tayebwa is therefore null and void.
The company additionally accuses Kiggundu of impunity, greed, and land grabbing, alleging that he deployed safety officers and hired other folks who demolished the industrial constructions in the early hours of March 7, 2026, with out following due route of.
In the swimsuit, Namex Ministries Limited is searching out numerous treatments, including a declaration that it is the right proprietor of the land on Position 22A Nakivubo Boulevard and the cancellation of the certificates of title held by Tayebwa on grounds of fraud and illegality.
The company is additionally asking court to advise Hamis Kiggundu to pay Shs5 billion in compensation for damages on account of what it describes because the unlawful demolition of its property.
The case has been assigned to the Head of the Land Division, Justice Damalie Lwanga, for management. Court has additionally summoned the accused parties to file their defence interior 15 days from the date they receive the court paperwork.
“Must restful you fail to file a defence on or sooner than the date mentioned, the plaintiff might possibly proceed with the swimsuit and judgment is at possibility of be given for your absence,” the court paperwork read.
In a separate assertion on his X (beforehand Twitter) tale, Tayebwa confirmed that he obtained a lease for a space in the Nakivubo feature in 2018.
“This became once accomplished throughout the formal and prison processes accessible to any citizen — I applied, followed the stipulated procedures, and paid your total requisite charges adore somebody else,” he wrote.
In step with Tayebwa, he later submitted building plans for approval, however KCCA suggested him that the land became once required for strategic activities and public functions.
“KCCA then supplied to compensate me and I accredited their proposal. KCCA went forward and took possession of the land approximately three years previously,” he added.
The improvement comes after four other folks were charged and remanded to Luzira Penal complex for allegedly accomplishing a demolition with out permission from metropolis authorities.
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