UPDF Reserve Force Commander Maj Gen Charles Otema Awiny should be arrested on sight, the Land Commission of Inquiry has directed.
The Commission chairperson Justice Catherine Bamugemereire issued the warrant of arrest after Otema failed to turn up at the Commission or return calls from the Commission investigators.
"Our investigators have tried their level best to trace Gen. Otema and have failed. They have tried to reach him through telephone calls but he does not pick nor return calls. We pray through you my lord, that an arrest warrant be issued against Gen. Otema requiring him to appear before this Commission," Commission Assistant lead counsel Andrew Odit submitted.
Justice Bamugemereire said that when Gen. Otema appeared before the Commission on August 17, 2018, he gave a half defense and was put on notice that the Commission will be requiring him to return today (yesterday August 31, 2018). "Therefore this Commission is left with no choice but to issue a warrant of arrest against Gen. Otema to appear before this Commission on Monday September 3, 2018," Justice Bamugemereire stated.
She added that Otema is facing various allegations against him before the Commission which he has to answer to. Among the allegations is the beating and burning of people like former Paidha Town Clerk Jathim Pierino, destroying Obira Primary school, a government school which was the only UPE school in the parish constructed by the Danish Refugee Council for the Jonam Community and threatening the media which exposed these atrocities he committed in Obira parish – Nwoya district.
Otema is also said to have burnt down homes of 800 families at Obira Trading Center, demolished Kazanako Church of Uganda, Kazanako Parents' School, Blue Corner Trading Center, Obira Church of Uganda, Obira Catholic Parish, polling stations like Obira West and Kazanako polling stations which had about 1800 voters each.
The land from which Gen. Otema evicted people covers the villages of Obira West, Obira Upper, Obira Lower, Obira South, Garamba, Kololo, Katinya and Ojwang, he claimed that the whole Kazanako sub-county was his. The land stretches from the main Gulu-Nwoya Highway to River Aswa part near Murchison Falls National Park Land. Otema also admitted that he owns 20,000 hectares of land in Amuru district from which he evicted people.
The Commission also heard the testimony of Mrs. Janet Nyisanga who is accused of grabbing 1 square mile of land from her relatives; Widow Allen Kakolomozo, Kezia Katono, Robinah Nyabare and Margaret Magodi. Kakolomozo complained to the Commission that her late husband Yosefu Kalumbalule had left her 320 acres which Nyasanga grabbed from her.
She said her husband and Nyisanga jointly applied for this square mile at the district and after being given a joint title, Nyisanga married a brother to Kalumbalule and when Kalumbalule died, Nyisanga decided to take over the whole land evicting her (Kakolomozo) without catering for her interest in the land as a widow to the co-owner. Kakolomozo said she has nothing to feed her six children since the land was her source of sustenance.
In her defense Nyisanga said that when Kalumbalule died, Kakolomozo sold 200 acres of this land part of which was hers and she ran away from Ngoma to Ankole. She said that she cannot surrender the land to Kakolomozo but can only give some part to only three of Kalumbalule's children.
Justice Bamugemereire advised Nyisanga to take off her 320 acres and leave the rest to the family with whom she shares the land title but she refused. The Commission is still investigating land related matters through public hearings at the National Records and Archives Center, Wandegeya – Kampala.
By Jamil Lutakome
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