{UAH} NAKASERO PRIMARY SCHOOL

Frank Mujabi and WBK,

Here is a positive development in this land grab saga. I have been
informed the Nabagereka school wiil also soon be returned, or the
Buganda Land Board and Mengo will face legal action because they are
the ones who sold the land to a so-called investor. The Kabaka and the
investor are promising to build another school for the children nearby
and to give scholarships to all the current children whose education
has now been disrupted by the land grab, but this is not good enough.
The Kabaka really needs to wake up to what his officials at the
Buganda Land Board are doing. He must come up with an ethical land
policy otherwise he will find himself on the side of the landgrabbers
and the oppressors in this saga which increasingly is pitting the poor
against the rich and powerful, and is affecting mainly baganda.

.George Okello



Alupo cancels title for Nakasero school land

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By FARAHANI MUKISA

Posted Saturday, May 30 2015 at 01:00
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Alupo cancels title for Nakasero school land


Kampala- Education minister Jessica Alupo has directed the Uganda Land
Commission (ULC) to cancel all the titles of Nakasero Primary School
land that were given to private investors.

Ms Alupo stated that the lease was awarded to the developer without
consultation of key stakeholders and ULC disregarded the school
management's complaints about the deal.

"Accordingly, therefore, this letter is to request you (ULC) to cancel
the lease issued to Prestigious Apartments Ltd to enable the school
repossess the said land for future development," Ms Alupo wrote to ULC
on May 4.

On August 19, 2010, ULC gave a 99-year lease on the school's land to
Prestigious Apartments Limited for redevelopment. The disputed land is
Plot 34A, Kyadondo Road. It measures about 0.68 acres, which forms
part of the Nakasero Primary School football pitch.
Alupo indicates in a letter dated September 22, 2011, that the school
management committee, through its secretary, "queried the
authenticity" of the lease to Prestigious Apartments Ltd.
Attempts to get comments from ULC officials were futile as they
promised to get back to us but never did.

The Prestigious Apartments Ltd proprietors could not comment as the
right person to speak on the matter was reportedly engaged in day-long
meetings.

Ms Alupo's directive comes on the heels of an ongoing investigation by
a select committee of Parliament on the dubious sales of land
belonging to various government schools in the city.

The Committee members, led by Buvuma MP Robert Migadde, recently asked
Alupo to halt all deals on the city schools' land until their
investigations had been concluded.

While appearing before the committee, Ms Alupo blamed her junior
minister, Mr Charles Bakkabulindi, for signing land giveaway deals
without her knowledge.

Ms Alupo, in her directive, also blamed ULC for awarding the lease
even when the Ministry of Education and Sports permanent secretary had
advised against the deal.

She cited the June 14, 2011 letter from her ministry to ULC, which she
says, clearly indicated the ministry's position on the school's land
in question. We could not readily establish what was contained in the
said letter.

Meanwhile, Kampala Capital City Authority has also lodged caveats on
the land of Nakasero and Buganda Road primary schools.

Several city schools, including Buganda Road, Nabagereka, Kitante and
Kitebi primary schools and Kololo Secondary School, have had their
land given to investors. The Nabagereka school structures were even
demolished a few months ago.

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