A total of five suspects accused of grabbing land belonging to the Madhavni Group have been remanded to Luzira government prison after they were charged with grabbing land by the Chief Magistrates Court Gomba district.
The suspects were arrested in an operation conducted by the State House Anti-Corruption Unit SHACU sometime back but appeared in court on Tuesday, November 12, 2024.
They include Allan Nuwahereza Katakanya, Gerald Mudenyi, David Nabimanya, Abdu Ssenoga, and Harunah Kisenyi and are expected to reappear in court on November 19, 2024.
The suspects were charged with forcible entry, forcible detention, destroying growing plants, and conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor and a felony.
“In September 2024, the accused, together with others still at large, under the guise of conducting a boundary opening, violently took possession of over 600 acres of land comprised in FRV 60 folio 4 in Musongole village, Mpenja sub-county, Gomba District, belonging to Madhvani Group Limited, and in the process destroyed tea plantations and over 540 acres of natural forest, “reads part of their charge sheet.
Investigations are still ongoing to ascertain, among others, how an overlapping title was created in October 2024 on a land title registered in the name of the Madhvani Group in 1955.