{UAH} KABAKA MUTEBI MUST RECUSE HIMSELF (SHUT UP) ABOUT LAND BILL- LAWYER.

Frank Mujabi/ John Kwitonda

The kabaka involved in yet another legal wrangle over land. I am not sure the Constitution bars Mutebi the individual from having a juridicial interest in land as the lawyer alleges- but there you go. The stakes over land in Uganda are becoming higher and higher I dont think they will ever be resolved by the courts or even by  the constitution or parliament. It will be resolved by the gun...

Bobby

Joseph Kayemba

4 hrs

SAM MAYANJA AND THE PROBLEM OF INTELLECTUAL FRAUDS...........

In this article, Sam Mayanja, a lawyer from Kampala Associated Advocates, a firm which at one time claimed for legal fees of £1,321,600 for having played a supportive role in a case against the president of Uganda, which according to an IGG report were grossly excessive especially given that they were seven times higher than fees claimed by Edwin Coe LLP who were the primary and lead lawyers in charge of defending the case in the UK tries to take a moral and intellectual high ground.

Unfortunately for him, he falls short. He claims that the Kabaka should not speak up against proposed laws which would oppress his people because that stops those who would have supported the proposed oppressive laws from speaking in support......he forgets that Kabaka is Maasomogi who will look far and warn his people like he majestically did in this case where a law was being brought to virtually take people's land without prior and adequate compensation. If by the Kabaka speaking up against oppression; it forces those who would have spoken in support of oppression to shut up, then we are glad for that. Even legally, the deeply NRM legal operative fails to point out how illegal it is for the Kabaka to speak up against evil.

The same Mayanja goes ahead to advocate that government takes over the running of private mailo estates by determining how much landlords ask for from whoever wants to get a lease on their land. What I don't know is whether Mayanja, who probably owns many rental units would be comfortable government setting and fixing rental fees of his private rental units........

What Mayanja doesn't realise in his Marxist, communistic, anti-capitalism hit piece on landlords is that by government taking over the determination of lease fees on private mailo land estates, land lords will sit back and refuse to give leases on their land. That will economically be bad as more dead capital shall be held in the less valuable bibanja......I don't think banks some of which he represents would be comfortable with landlords holding back on issuing leases.

People who always advocate for government involvement in private life and property are intellectual frauds in my view. And their problem, they fail to realize that government is inherently incompetent and that capitalism where market forces are left to play with minimal regulation is the actual road to prosperity. You want me to give you a lease title you will use to access millions or billions in credit financing or when you sell at say shs.200,000 as premium? Mayanja. If you can't afford a lease title, remain a kibanja holder. You don't ask government to force poultry farmers to sell chicken at the price you want because you can't afford their current selling price.

Land evictions are now rampant as a result of government fixing ground rent or busuulu first at shs.1000.... and then at 5000, 10,000, 20,000, 30,000, 40,000, 50,000 regardless of size, value and property one holds on the kibanja plus the fading away of Envujjo. Landlords are therefore finding it as a liability to have bibanja holders on their land. Therefore, a law which was supposed to save bibanja holders is actually fuelling their evictions. That's how horrible gov't is....

Mayanja who has not advocated for government to fix how much he can ask for to represent a client in a case regardless of its commercial value should stick to being an NRM legal operative. The more he writes against the Kabaka, the more he exposes his intellectual limits......that is bad for a lawyer.

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