{UAH} ITS BUGANDA AND NOT HON. NANTABA THAT WAS RIGGED OUT IN THE KAYUNGA ELECTIONS
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ITS BUGANDA AND NOT HON. NANTABA THAT WAS RIGGED OUT IN THE KAYUNGA ELECTIONS
The Minister of State for Lands who is also the Kayunga District Woman Member of Parliament has vowed to quit the ruling NRM and to contest as an independent candidate in the forthcoming general elections. This follows violent party primaries in which she lost to Karangwa Moses Kaliisa for the position of NRM District Chairmanship. She accuses Karangwa Kaliisa of using his gun wielding agents to intimidate his supporters and election officials. There is no doubt the regime rigged out Aidah Nantaba because she has been standing in their way for the ongoing land grabbing in Buganda and the Oil Region of Bunyoro. After securing large chunks of land in Mawokota, Buwekula, Dingo and Busiro, the regime big wigs are now focussing on Bugerere and Kayunga in particular. As has always been the practice, in order to ease acquisition and consolidation of hold on land, the regime is yet to curve out another district out of Kayunga the same way it was for Sembabule, Kyenjojo, Lyantonde, Gomba, Nakaseke, Kyankwanzi etc. Also, another focus is now on land north of Karuma Falls.
The issue of land grabbing has been a major weapon by the regime inSYSTEMATICALLY
destroying Buganda Kingdom. The Kingdom initiated a sensitization program to its subjects not to sell off their land. The regime deliberately left out developmental programmes in those areas so that the local land owners find no value in their land thus sell it off cheaply as they migrate to urban centers to do petty business. Member of Parliament Hon Betty Namboze headed the Buganda Kingdom's King's Central Civic Education Committee (CCEC). At the time the kingdom feared that the proposed amendment to the land law was a regime ploy to facilitate land grabbing in Buganda. Museveni argued that the law needed to be strengthened to better protect tenants from eviction. The amendment was passed in 2010 but evictions continued especially in Buganda and the Oil Region of Bunyoro. In 2011 Museveni banned land deals in Bunyoro as he appointed a committee to investigate the alleged land grabbing but its findings have never been made public. The rush for land acquisition in Bunyoro was based on a belief that such acquired tittled land had oils underneath and would fetch fat compensation.
Museveni appointed a committee to counter the Buganda Kingdom's Hon Betty Namboze led CCEC. Later on this committee was replaced by another State House Committee led by Mrs. Gertrude Njuba. In 2009 a landlord was burnt to death in Kayunga by people who accused him of attempting to displace them from land. A year later, 20 landlords threatened to flee Kayunga. A landlord in Busabira and Kyanugongo villages, Paul Mutabazi with the help of the Police effected a court order and demolished homes of nine tenants.
Museveni appointed Hon. Aidah Nantaba to head a committee meant to stop eviction of tenants and return those whose had been evicted from their land. Since assuming office Hon. Aidah Nantaba has been fighting for the voiceless, the poor and theVULNERABLE to repossess their land. In the process she has been accused by regime backed landlords of ofinciting tenants. A Land Protection Police Unit (LPPU) that was then led by Fred Enanga was ccreated in 2013. LPPU played a major role in protecting land grabbers while at the same time frustrating and undermining Hon. Nantaba's efforts. In August 2013 Hon. Nantaba informed the parliamentary committee on physical infrastructure that the Police was interfering in the work of her Land Committee. The parliamentary committee summoned the Police Chief Kale Kayihura to respond to these allegations. He even went ahead and wrote a long article in response to Hon. Nantaba's allegations. In the same article he accused Hon. Nantaba of ignoring established land laws in her work. Hon. Nantaba made a counter attack by further alleging that Gen. Kayihura of having personal interest in Kayunga land. She asserted thus: "Why didnt he attack the committee's work in all areas we have traversed? Why do Policemen chase away journalists whenever he is meeting Karangwa and other landlords in Kayunga secretly?" The said landlords evict tenants using the Police who beat up, imprison, prepare files on criminal charges which are sanctioned by the Resident State Attorney before they are taken to court and then evicted.
In collusion with their powerful regime backers, the landlords in Kayunga led by the powerful Karangwa Moses Kaliisa sued the government in several land related suits. In February 2015 the High Court ordered for the attachement of Hon. Nantaba's salary over an oustanding debt of 23 million shillings arising from litigation costs that was awarded to a one Kiberu after court quashed Nantaba's order ofbgiving away 3.8 acres of land located in Wasozi, Kitende to another family following a dispute. Karangwa owns a big chunk of land at Kinamawanga, Baale Sub-county in Kayunga district after intimidating tenants into accepting peanut payments. Hon. Nantaba ordered the tenants to return to that land and Karangwa went to court. Locals as well as Hon. Nantaba believe that Karangwa is an agent of big people in the regime. Last month Hon. Nantaba alleged that some wealthy people incliding senior army officers were involved in illegal land evictions and sponsering her political opponents in the elections. Shortly after, Karangwa Kaliisa led a delegation of local leaders of Kayunga district to Namunkenke Industrial Park in Nakaseke district to meet Gen. Saleh. During the visit Gen. Saleh warned Hon. Nantaba to leave him out of the land wrangles. The learned General said that he had the capacity to buy land instead of stealing it. The following week Museveni was in Kayunga where he the Chief Guest at the launch of Sauti FM - a local FM Radio station whose proprietor is none other than Karangwa Kaliisa. During the function Kaliisa donated to Museveni a spear and a shield before introducing his teenage sons; Emanuel Kamugisha and Michael and Michael Karuhanga who shock hands with Museveni. Museveni thanked Karangwa for establishing a radio station; "I also thank him for the plans to put up a pineapple processing plant in Kayunga." During the same occasion he made the infamous pronouncement that he was clocking 71 yet he looked 30 years old. He urged locals to vote strong leaders thus: "If you support weak ones, how will they maintain security?" He also urged locals not to fight over land and assured them that no one will be chased off their land before contending that: "These land wrangles are there because people are still ignorant about the law.
Who is Karangwa Moses Kaliisa?
He is a Munyarwanda and has been the Jinja Municipality ruling NRM Chairman. He is said to be a leading wealthy businessman in Jinja, Kamuli and Kayunga. He is the proprietor of Star React a security Company based in Jinja. He owns property and chunks of land in Kamuli, Jinja, Kayunga and Nakaseke. His livestock farms supply milk to Jinja and Kamuli towns. As Chairman NRM for Jinja Municipality, in 2011 his executive committee threatened to impeach him over allegations that he had single handedly prepared the party's campaign b budget and went ahead toGET MONEYfrom the party headquarters but did not declare it. He survived because of his god-fathers at the too party leadership. In 2013 at a public function in Budondo, Iganga district that was attended by Museveni, Karangwa tricked UPC strongman Robert Kanusu into shaking hands with Museveni. During the occasion Karangwa gave Museveni a yellow baseball cap of NRM which he in turn handed over to Kanusu who refused to put it on. He had contested for the Jinja district LC 5 chairmanship on UPC ticket and lost. Earlier in 2012 during a fundraising for St. Gonzaga Seminary in Iganga that was presided over by Museveni, Karangwa bought Museveni's portrait at 30M shillings.
Therefore, Hon. Nantaba stepped on the toes of the powerful managers of the military regime and will have to be fought by all means so that she does not even make it again to parliament.
She interfered in a grand scheme to extend to cattle corridor to Kayunga where the even the regime blocked the King of Buganda from visiting in a wider scheme to curve a breakaway chiefdom from Buganda Kingdom. By Kaliisa Karangwa violently wining the regime's leadership of the area that is the hot bed of land grabbing, Buganda has lost another territory. Slowly but surely MPAKALAST.
INFORMATION IS POWER.
The issue of land grabbing has been a major weapon by the regime inSYSTEMATICALLY
destroying Buganda Kingdom. The Kingdom initiated a sensitization program to its subjects not to sell off their land. The regime deliberately left out developmental programmes in those areas so that the local land owners find no value in their land thus sell it off cheaply as they migrate to urban centers to do petty business. Member of Parliament Hon Betty Namboze headed the Buganda Kingdom's King's Central Civic Education Committee (CCEC). At the time the kingdom feared that the proposed amendment to the land law was a regime ploy to facilitate land grabbing in Buganda. Museveni argued that the law needed to be strengthened to better protect tenants from eviction. The amendment was passed in 2010 but evictions continued especially in Buganda and the Oil Region of Bunyoro. In 2011 Museveni banned land deals in Bunyoro as he appointed a committee to investigate the alleged land grabbing but its findings have never been made public. The rush for land acquisition in Bunyoro was based on a belief that such acquired tittled land had oils underneath and would fetch fat compensation.Museveni appointed a committee to counter the Buganda Kingdom's Hon Betty Namboze led CCEC. Later on this committee was replaced by another State House Committee led by Mrs. Gertrude Njuba. In 2009 a landlord was burnt to death in Kayunga by people who accused him of attempting to displace them from land. A year later, 20 landlords threatened to flee Kayunga. A landlord in Busabira and Kyanugongo villages, Paul Mutabazi with the help of the Police effected a court order and demolished homes of nine tenants.
Museveni appointed Hon. Aidah Nantaba to head a committee meant to stop eviction of tenants and return those whose had been evicted from their land. Since assuming office Hon. Aidah Nantaba has been fighting for the voiceless, the poor and theVULNERABLE
to repossess their land. In the process she has been accused by regime backed landlords of ofinciting tenants. A Land Protection Police Unit (LPPU) that was then led by Fred Enanga was ccreated in 2013. LPPU played a major role in protecting land grabbers while at the same time frustrating and undermining Hon. Nantaba's efforts. In August 2013 Hon. Nantaba informed the parliamentary committee on physical infrastructure that the Police was interfering in the work of her Land Committee. The parliamentary committee summoned the Police Chief Kale Kayihura to respond to these allegations. He even went ahead and wrote a long article in response to Hon. Nantaba's allegations. In the same article he accused Hon. Nantaba of ignoring established land laws in her work. Hon. Nantaba made a counter attack by further alleging that Gen. Kayihura of having personal interest in Kayunga land. She asserted thus: "Why didnt he attack the committee's work in all areas we have traversed? Why do Policemen chase away journalists whenever he is meeting Karangwa and other landlords in Kayunga secretly?" The said landlords evict tenants using the Police who beat up, imprison, prepare files on criminal charges which are sanctioned by the Resident State Attorney before they are taken to court and then evicted.In collusion with their powerful regime backers, the landlords in Kayunga led by the powerful Karangwa Moses Kaliisa sued the government in several land related suits. In February 2015 the High Court ordered for the attachement of Hon. Nantaba's salary over an oustanding debt of 23 million shillings arising from litigation costs that was awarded to a one Kiberu after court quashed Nantaba's order ofbgiving away 3.8 acres of land located in Wasozi, Kitende to another family following a dispute. Karangwa owns a big chunk of land at Kinamawanga, Baale Sub-county in Kayunga district after intimidating tenants into accepting peanut payments. Hon. Nantaba ordered the tenants to return to that land and Karangwa went to court. Locals as well as Hon. Nantaba believe that Karangwa is an agent of big people in the regime. Last month Hon. Nantaba alleged that some wealthy people incliding senior army officers were involved in illegal land evictions and sponsering her political opponents in the elections. Shortly after, Karangwa Kaliisa led a delegation of local leaders of Kayunga district to Namunkenke Industrial Park in Nakaseke district to meet Gen. Saleh. During the visit Gen. Saleh warned Hon. Nantaba to leave him out of the land wrangles. The learned General said that he had the capacity to buy land instead of stealing it. The following week Museveni was in Kayunga where he the Chief Guest at the launch of Sauti FM - a local FM Radio station whose proprietor is none other than Karangwa Kaliisa. During the function Kaliisa donated to Museveni a spear and a shield before introducing his teenage sons; Emanuel Kamugisha and Michael and Michael Karuhanga who shock hands with Museveni. Museveni thanked Karangwa for establishing a radio station; "I also thank him for the plans to put up a pineapple processing plant in Kayunga." During the same occasion he made the infamous pronouncement that he was clocking 71 yet he looked 30 years old. He urged locals to vote strong leaders thus: "If you support weak ones, how will they maintain security?" He also urged locals not to fight over land and assured them that no one will be chased off their land before contending that: "These land wrangles are there because people are still ignorant about the law.
Who is Karangwa Moses Kaliisa?
He is a Munyarwanda and has been the Jinja Municipality ruling NRM Chairman. He is said to be a leading wealthy businessman in Jinja, Kamuli and Kayunga. He is the proprietor of Star React a security Company based in Jinja. He owns property and chunks of land in Kamuli, Jinja, Kayunga and Nakaseke. His livestock farms supply milk to Jinja and Kamuli towns. As Chairman NRM for Jinja Municipality, in 2011 his executive committee threatened to impeach him over allegations that he had single handedly prepared the party's campaign b budget and went ahead toGET MONEY
from the party headquarters but did not declare it. He survived because of his god-fathers at the too party leadership. In 2013 at a public function in Budondo, Iganga district that was attended by Museveni, Karangwa tricked UPC strongman Robert Kanusu into shaking hands with Museveni. During the occasion Karangwa gave Museveni a yellow baseball cap of NRM which he in turn handed over to Kanusu who refused to put it on. He had contested for the Jinja district LC 5 chairmanship on UPC ticket and lost. Earlier in 2012 during a fundraising for St. Gonzaga Seminary in Iganga that was presided over by Museveni, Karangwa bought Museveni's portrait at 30M shillings.Therefore, Hon. Nantaba stepped on the toes of the powerful managers of the military regime and will have to be fought by all means so that she does not even make it again to parliament.
She interfered in a grand scheme to extend to cattle corridor to Kayunga where the even the regime blocked the King of Buganda from visiting in a wider scheme to curve a breakaway chiefdom from Buganda Kingdom. By Kaliisa Karangwa violently wining the regime's leadership of the area that is the hot bed of land grabbing, Buganda has lost another territory. Slowly but surely MPAKALAST.
INFORMATION IS POWER.
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