Wednesday, April 23, 2025

KIBOGA: Court Remands Man Over Violent Land Eviction and Assault

The State House Anti-Corruption Unit working together with Investigations Directorate (CID) and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) have arraigned Ainebyoona Ronald before the Kiboga Chief Magistrates Court on charges of Forcible Entry, Malicious damage and Assault causing actual bodily harm.

According to the Anti corruption unit ,the accused and others still at large on  March 14th,2025 at Lwakonge village in Kiboga district seized and violently evicted several occupants off the land comprised in Block 542, Plot 2 in Kiboga district.

The accused also destroyed plantations and assaulted some of the occupants on the land. And the dispute on the contested land is between a group of departed Asians who have a freehold title dating from 1932 and Mwanje Badru who got a mailo title in 1999.

According to the Anti-Corruption Unit   Ainebyoona  claimed to be working on behalf of the departed Asians to evict Mwanje and other residents.

The state house anti corruption unit rapid response  team follows  the President Museveni’s  directive to the Head of the Unit, Brig Gen Henry Isoke, to investigate the criminal aspects of the matter, while other offices including Ministry of Lands, IGP and DPP ensure the law is upheld.

The suspects  were  remanded to  kiboga and set to appear in court on April,14,2025.

In the related development Entebbe Magistrate Court charged eight suspects of forcible entry, forcible detainer, malicious damage to property, and theft  which  was confirmed by the Anti-Corruption Unit on February 14, 2025. The suspects  were  remanded to Luzira .

 

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