{UAH} ULC’S BYENKYA TELLS MPS: SKY HOTEL IS ON GOVT LAND
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By Mulengera Reporters
During her appearance before the Physical Infrastructure Committee of Parliament, Uganda Land Commission Chairperson Beatrice Byenkya Nyakayisiki told MPs many things including claiming that a number of private developments, including the famous Skyz Hotel Naguru, had improperly been constructed on public land. She asserted that in the Kyambogo-Ntinda neighborhood is a huge piece of land that used to be designated as crown land which, after independence, became public land which ULC is mandated to preserve.
The very belligerent Byenkya, who was appearing with her line Minister Beti Kamya, revealed that this crown land in the Kyambogo-Ntinda-Nakawa-Naguru neighborhood alone measures up to 350 acres which had been encroached upon and grabbed by private developers in connivance with rogue-minded elements in the previous ULC administrations. She claimed that because of connivance and laxity of the people who manned ULC before she came into the picture, rogue-minded elements at Kampala District Land Board of the Yusuf Nsibambi era were able to dubiously hijack and purport to allocate public land which was clearly under the ULC mandate.
That in Nsibambi's days, rogue-minded elements at KDLB would work with conspirators at ULC to even forge Uganda Land Commission minutes showing a meeting sat and a no objection was arrived at permitting KDLB to deal with the land. Renowned for taking no prisoners, Byenkya went as far as informing MPs that at some point, the ULC registry had been infiltrated by agents of land grabbers who use forged minutes to mandate KDLB to deal with public land in Kampala over which they clearly had no mandate.
Skyz Hotel Naguru which ULC Chairperson Beatrice Byenkya Nyakayisiki says is located on government land.
Byenkya claimed that such conspirators, working with insiders from both KDLB and ULC, had for the past many years targeted the 350 acres of this very prime crown land in Nakawa Division and a lot of it has since been dubiously allocated or leased out to private developers including those behind Skyz Hotel and businesses in the same neighborhood. She indicated to the MPs that her teams have been conducting inventory-taking and have made shocking findings showing the extent to which the Nsibambi era KDLB hijacked land belonging to ULC.
She attempted to read out a huge report containing what has exactly gone wrong with public land in that entire Nakawa neighborhood, covering Minister's Village Ntinda and going all the way to Kyambogo University, but the Committee Chairperson Eng Kafeero Sekitoleko stopped her saying there would be another session fully dedicated to the presentation and discussion of that report. The fire-breathing Byenkya also implored the MPs to help support her efforts to recover much of this public land which the Nsibambi era KDLB has inappropriately parceled or leased out to private developers. She also implied her line Minister Beti Kamya was conflicted and therefore not prepared to render her the support she requires to stand up to grabbers of public land who she said were everywhere in Kampala with their activities previously being aided by rogue-minded elements in the Nsibambi-era KDLB.
The MPs (mostly James Waluswaka, Elijah Okupa, Abraham Byandala, Gafa Mbwa Tekamwa & Chairman Kafeero Sekitoleko) vowed to summon Nsibambi and squeeze him hard until he satisfactorily explains himself about the curious land allocations which took place during the 10 years he was Chairman of KDLB. Some MPs commended Beti Kamya for standing firm and boldly while reversing an allocation Nsibambi's KDLB had done in Kololo allocating public land to a private developer who wanted to situate there a car bond. Sekitoleko and Waluswaka maintained there are lots of anomalous allocations of public land in Kampala that occurred during the Nsibambi tenure and the same must publicly be inquired into.
"We have been receiving a lot of complaints about the curious deals that were sanctioned over public land in Kampala during his time as KDLB chairman and we are left with no option but to summon him to explain why all that had to happen yet KDLB is supposed to hold and manage public land in Kampala on behalf of the public," Sekitoleko said while demanding that his successor David Balondemu (barely three months in office) must prepare to be in Parliament too on the day Nsibambi will be appearing so that he learns some useful lessons which can placate him against making similar mistakes during his tenure. Sekitoleko also vowed to inquire into all Byenkya claims including the circumstances surrounding the land on which the Skyz hotel stands
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