Maverick State Minister of Lands Housing and Urban Development Dr Sam Mayanja in a fresh sharp fight with Baker Mugaino the Commissioner land registration over Gunda forestry reserve.
Exclusively speaking to this website, minister Mayanja confirmed that Mugaino has protested his orders of cancelling all land titles issued on the 57 acres of land and being registered under Uganda land commission.
He disclosed that he was copied in a letter Mugaino wrote to Kiryowa Kiwanuka the Attorney General seeking for legal interpretation of the move claiming that he was under pressure from the minister to issue a land title in the forest reserve which is illegal.
“Without returning back to me for guidance over my directive, he wrote to the Attorney General but I know the reason why he did so. He wanted to delay the process of developing that land to benefit Ugandans as the president directed,” Mayanja said.
He explained that President Museveni gave a directive through State House to establish an industrial park to be used by youths trained by government for their skilling projects on the premise that there is no forest on the said land but mafias only wanted to grab the said land.
He claims that top government officials in judiciary, parliament, cabinet and business personals have already secured land titles in that public land and they are fighting tooth and nail to make sure that State House doesn’t take over the land because they will lose the pieces of land they secured fraudulently.
Mayanja added that the beneficiaries of the fraud are planning to drag the government to court seeking legal declaration that they own the said land legally and if government wants to use the land, it has to first compensate them or force government to look for an alternative land for the said development.
Matia Lwanga Bwanika the Wakiso district chairperson and other area leadership are protesting the State House move to take over the said land insisting that it is a forest reserve and have already started rallying the public to fight for the said land.


