Internal Affairs Minister Gen Kahinda Otafiire Okays Sale of CID headquarter Land.
The Minister of Internal Affairs Gen Kahinda Otafiire nas granted a leeway to MS Ticha Investment Ltd to take full possession of land at Kibuga block 15 lot 31-49 Kibuli- Mukwano Road Kampala City.
Following the intervention of the minister of state, and minister of internal affairs, I also affirm that this matter was handled irregularly. The letter reads in part.
Tisha Investments, whose online information says is managed by James Saul Byaruhanga, in June 2019 dragged the government to court the land, leaving then Inspector General Police Martins Okoth-Ochola vowing to crush the plot to grab the institution's land.
In a civil suit number 489 before the Land Division of the High Court, Tisha Investments demanded that the Uganda Land Commission and Attorney General step aside and allow it the right to lessee.
Besides Mr Byaruhanga, the local investment firm is said to be jointly owned by a group of powerful claimants such as retired UPDF General Gyagenda Kibirango and Stephen Kashaka, former urban development state minister Urban Tibamanya, and Rwampara county MP Charles Ngabirano.
The meek surrender from General Otafiire who gained fame in mid-2000s for his stance against land grabbers and wetland encroachers is telling.
Chunks of land belonging to Uganda Police in Nsambya and Kibuli locales were given away to investors between 2000 and the first half of the last decade.
At some point, the entire Nsambya and Kibuli police headquarters were in the briefcase of investor - although they somewhat remained standing.
When Tisha Investments sued in 2019, their five-year lease issued in 2014 by the Uganda Land Commission was expiring.
The firm told the court that then police director of Engineering and Logistics, Godfrey Bangirana, had frustrated their efforts to develop it.
It also demanded a lease extension for 49 years as envisaged in the lease offer.
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