Chief Justice Owiny Dollo forced to cancel the signing of the multibillion Mutungo hill Land deal after businessman Dr Muhammad Buwule Kasasa family stormed his Nakasero official home rioting over Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi family involvement.
According to documents seen by this website 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 and a section of Kasasa family members and Kabaka Mutebi’s family members led by his young brother Prince David Kintu Wasajja were ready to put pen to paper.
However, other Kasasa family members lead by Dr Nulu Nakabonge Kasasa stormed the home of the Chief Justice and voiced their concerns after being informed by security that they were not supposed to enter because don’t have any business with the Chief Justice
After realising what was going on outside and reading the reactions of the public on the social media platform over the protest letter Kasasa’s family wrote accusing him of being biased and using his position to assist Kabaka Mutebi’s family to fraudulently benefit from their father’s estate, Dollo ordered them be allowed to enter
“He looked very confused and he assured us that he has no interest in grabbing our father’s estate. He immediately suspended the planned signing of the deal noting that he is supposed to first have a meeting with us as the Kasasa family alone,” one of Kasasa’s family member said.
He added that Dollo set 24 of October to meet Kasasa’s family and discuss their grievances with him together before deciding on his next move.
In their protest letter, Kasasa family members insist that that Dollo cannot mediate the parties because of his deep historical ties with both the judiciary and the Buganda monarch which creates an appearance of bias, potentially breaching the right to fair and impartial hearing guaranteed under Article 28(1) of the Constitution.
They further claim that the Attorney General’s involvement into the mediations yet the current Attorney General Kiwanuka 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 insist that the ongoing mediations are not a neutral process but rather an extrajudicial effort to reverse the conclusive court rulings.
They add 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 who are supposed to 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 reads
They further accuse Dollo of sidelining them in the ongoing mediations insisting that the majority of them are not in agreement with the settlement.
They add that there are credible reports that the estate is already 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 be made into the legitimacy and neutrality of the mediation, especially addressing the issue of conflict of interest by the Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka.
They also want 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 reads.
The development comes at a time when Kasasa’s personal lawyer who is also a state minister for Lands Dr Sam Mayanja recently told this website 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 young brother Prince David Kintu Wasajja and their sister Nnaalinnya Sarah Kagere who are the administrators of the estate of their father insist that Kasasa fraudulently obtained Mutungo hill land
On the other hand, even before his death, Kasasa insisted that that he bought the said land from Barclays Bank currently Absa and before he bought it, it was transferred from Kabaka Mutesa, to Benjamin Kwemalamala a top tycoon in Masaka who mortgaged it and later registered it in the company named Victoria Properties Limited.
He disclosed that he bought the contested land from the bank when Kabaka was in the exile and had to sell it to survive life in exile.
