Dr Nulu Nakabonge Kasasa, daughter to late city businessman Dr Muhammad Buwule Kasasa has protested the statement made by the retired Chief Justice Owiny Dollo boasting how he is helping in mediating her family and the family of the late Sir Edward Walugembe Mutesa the Kabaka of Buganda over multibillion Mutungo hill land
While handing over the office to the Acting Chief Justice also the deputy chief Justice Dr Flavian Zeija, Justice Dollo who clocked 70 years retirement age on Monday narrated how he cancelled his duties abroad to rush back to Kampala to conclude the Mutungo Hill land dispute.
Dollo said that after realising that the legal fight between Kasasa and Mutesa family was not going to be concluded early, having been in court for decades, he led the mediation where he alleges the parties have now agreed to solve their grievances out of court.
However, in an exclusive phone interview with this website, Dr Nakabonge rubbished Justice Dollo’s statements insisting that she is not aware of the said deal noting that whatever Dollo claims has been reached is fraudulent.
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“I’m a daughter to Dr Kasasa and a beneficiary from his estate, together with other beneficiaries, we were never informed about the deal that the Chief Justice is talking about. We asked him to recuse himself from our father’s matter, but I was shocked to see him boasting of how he solved our issues which have already solved by our father through courts of law,” Nakabonge said.
She added that she is still consulting other beneficiaries, family lawyers and advisors on the way forward because her father’s estate is under threat from fraudsters who want to use impunity to grab it.
He gave an example of their hotel building at Mengo a Kampala suburb which is being forcefully being taken by city businessman Moses Kalungi
When this website contacted Kalungi, he declined to comment on the claim insisting that he is not aware of the matter.
Nakabonge divulged that the last time the family met Justice Dollo, they agreed to halt the mediations and instead return the matter to the courts of law.
She disclosed that this happened after they stormed his Nakasero official home in protest over the Mutesa family involvement.
According to documents seen by this website recently, which were authored by Kirunda and Company Advocates and K&K Advocates, the 50-50 deal was supposed to be signed on Monday 13 October 2025 before the Chief mediator Justice Dollo between a section of Kasasa family members and Kabaka Mutebi’s family members led by his young brother Prince David Kintu Wasajja.
Through a protest letter written to Dollo in October 2025, Kasasa family members insisted that Dollo cannot mediate the parties because of his deep historical ties with both the judiciary and the monarchy of Buganda which creates an appearance of bias and potential breach of the right to fair and impartial hearing guaranteed under Article 28(1) of the Constitution.
They further disclosed that the Attorney General’s involvement into the mediations yet he is a founding partner of K&K Advocates, a law firm which is representing the Estate of Mutessa and Kabaka Mutebi officially and personally is a clear conflict of interest.
“His participation is clear conflict of interest and contravenes the ethical obligations outlined in the Advocates Act (Cap. 267). Furthermore, the Attorney General has no legal standing in the land ownership dispute between the two estates, his role is confined to the separate compensation suit 9HCCS NO.227 of 2005) filed by the Muteesa estate against the government,” the protest letter further reads.
Kasasa’s children insisted that the ongoing mediations are not a neutral process but rather an extrajudicial effort to reverse the conclusive court rulings.
They added that the process is ignoring Kasasa’s express wishes and harms the very beneficiaries of his estate citing the sidelining of the appointed specific legal advisors of KAA who were selected by the late o oversee his estate particularly concerning Mutungo land.
“This adviser has been completely ignored in the settlement talks, a violation of Section 180 of the Succession Act (Cap. 162). Any agreement reached without this advisor’s involvements is procedurally defective and likely invalid,” the letter read.
They further accused Dollo of sidelining them in the ongoing mediations insisting that the majority of them are not in agreement with the settlement, adding that there are credible reports that the estate is being mismanaged and some children of the deceased and other dependents have been left without basic provisions for education, shelter and healthcare.
The children requested the Chief Justice with immediate effect to halt the proposed mediation and settlement process and a public inquiry into the legitimacy and neutrality of the mediation, especially addressing the issue of conflict of interest by the Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka.
They also asked for the mandatory inclusion of Kasasa’s named legal advisers in any and all discussions concerning his estate as required by his will and succession Act
“The Commissioning of an independent forensic audit of the estate to ensure its assets are protected and that Kasasa’s heirs and beneficiaries receive the provisions they are entitled to,” the letter read.
The development comes at a time when Kasasa’s personal lawyer who is also a State Minister for Lands Dr Sam Mayanja recently told Ono Bwino that his client died in absolute poverty and failed to get proper medications even though he owned a multibillion empire.
He explained that even though he petitioned the President, who in turn directed Ramathan Ggoobi the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and Secretary to Treasury to release part of the Shs30bn that Kasasa was demanding government, Kabaka Mutebi’s family lawyers protested the move and the money was not released.
Kabaka Mutebi, his brother Prince David Kintu Wasajja and his sister Nnaalinnya Sarah Kagere who are the administrators of the estate of their father insist that Kasasa fraudulently obtained Mutungo hill land. They even contested the evidence he brought showing that he bought the contested land from the bank when Kabaka was in the exile.
Kasasa’s family insist that he bought the said land from Barclays Bank currently Absa and before he bought it, it was transferred from Mutesa, to Benjamin Kwemalamala a top tycoon in Masaka who mortgaged it and later registered it in the company named Victoria Properties Limited.
However, in all the several court battles that Mutesa’s children have had with Dr. Kasasa, several courts have declared Kasasa as the rightful owner of the contested land and also declared that he obtained the land legally.
