The deputy City Resident Commissioner (RCC) in charge of Kawempe Division, Kagenyi Lukka has publicly withdrawn the orders he issued recently on Katanga land near Wandegeya.
On Saturday, Lukka summoned a meeting at Katanga playground which was attended by Busia and Kimwanyi zone local leaders and residents to announce his new stand on resolving the ongoing dispute on the said land.
“Two weeks back, I was here at this very place getting your views concerning the ownership of this land. I made a number of orders including the arrest of my brother Pastor Daniel Walugembe. But the Attorney General who is the Chief Government legal advisor drew my attention to Justice Owiny Dollo’s judgement concerning this land, telling me that the orders I issued were in contempt of court and I risked being charged in the courts of law,” Lukka said.
He added that being a government official, and given that when he is dragged to court, the Attorney General is the one to defend him, he has to respect his advice and withdraw the orders he issued to save the government funds.
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Lukka further revealed to the gathering that his investigations established that Nanziza Construction Company Uganda Limited which entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Makerere University, the landlord of Katanga land to develop the said piece of land is fake. He assured the tenants on the land that no one is going to evict them.
He advised the tenants to stay on their respective pieces of land and avoid making provocative statements against each other. He further revealed that he has written a proposal to President Museveni on how the government can solve the ongoing dispute between the landlords and tenants.
His first proposal was for government to buy off the tenants according to their pieces of land and after return it to Makerere university vacant or use it for other public benefits.
Another proposal he gave was for government to enter into a Public-Private partnership whereby government could get a developer and use his money to turn Katanga in to a model village by building modern houses after entering into agreements with bonafide tenants so that they are given condominium titles on their spaces and the remaining spaces are sold so that the developer can recover the money they invested in the deal.
He further proposed that the government can use taxpayers’ money to develop the area by building modern houses to the bonafide tanants after buying off the landlord.
He however warned that his proposal is not a one year or two years plan that is why tenants have to be clever in protecting their pieces of land.
Thomas Bagonza, a local leader, appreciated Lukka’s leadership style of accepting his mistake and clarifying to the public because people with selfish interests were using his orders to call for the arrest of Pastor Walugembe while misleading those who sold their bibanja to him to start reclaiming them.
“I have been a leader in this area for years seeing people voluntarily selling their bibanja to Pastor Walugembe and he currently owns 28 acres of land but Makerere university land titles read 37 acres. So, it is misleading to hear people saying that Walugembe owns the entire Katanga land,” Bagonza said.
In the meeting, it was resolved that the RCC organizes another meeting so that residents engage with Pastor Walugembe to understand the boundaries of his land insisting that he has all the documents concerning how he has been buying his bibanja.
The controversy stemmed in a March 23, 2026 letter to the Deputy Vice Chancellor Makerere university where Lukka directed the institution to hand over Katanga land to Nanziza Construction Company.
The area local leaders challenged the RCC’s orders in a letter to him noting that trying to overturn a court judgement from a competent judge was contemptuous.
“This is to inform you that you do not have any authority whatsoever to vary or overturn the said court order and we as local leaders of the area shall not allow you to continue breaking the law, disrespecting court orders and disturbing the peaceful occupation of our residents,” reads the letter asking the RCC to recall his letter of face contempt of court proceedings.
According to documents from Uganda Registration Service Bureau (URSB), the company has a share capital of Shs1m and has two shareholders Denis Jjuko and Henry Kamyuka with each having 500 shares without any annual returns despite being incorporated in 2011.
