Residents of Upper Konge in Makindye Division Kampala City were shocked upon seeing bulldozers and body built men entering their neighbour’s home with machetes.
They were scared that land grabbers were targeting their neighbor’s home and immediately informed the local council leadership to intervene.
However, when they phoned the Namboole stadium boss who owns the home, he appreciated their care and friendship and confirmed to them that he is the one who ordered for the demolition of the home because he wants to build another structure and has shifted to another home.
Even though the stadium boss told neighbours that he was going to build a new building, this investigative website establish that for the last two months, nothing is going on at the site and the man shifted upon demolishing his multibillion home to disrupt the ongoing investigation against him and other top UPDF commanders in the engineering brigade accused of mismanaging the billions of money president Museveni allocated to revamp the stadium to reach the required standard come African Cup of Nations in 2027.
Sources in the military told this website that the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba instituted a team of investigators to investigate the mismanagement of the money released by the government to revamp Namboole stadium and a number of soldiers including commanders are under investigation and detention.
Government allocated Shs97bn to revamp Namboole stadium and the Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development through the Ministry of Education and Sports have been releasing the said money in instalments to finish the work and according to UPDF spokesperson Maj Gen Felix Kulayigye the job is nearly completed.
Maj Gen Kulayigye confirmed the withdrawal of the UPDF engineers explaining that it was a decision agreed upon with the officials from the Ministry of Education and Sports and those from FUFA the national football governing body.
One of the neighbours who witnessed the stadium boss shifting said that three trucks carried his belongings in two trips to an unknown destination and nothing was left. After, the entire house was demolished the next day.
“His father was a close friend to President Museveni because he helped him when he was fighting the liberation war. He children studied from abroad and this man has been living a very flamboyant life, driving posh cars and using classy stuff,” a family friend to the boss told this website.
This website has also established that Justice Catherine Bamugemereire’s land probe recommended the said stadium boss be prosecuted on allegation of involvement in illegal selling of the stadium land to different developers and he has been cited in the number of fraudulent deals which cost the stadium billions of money.
The development comes days after Gen Muhoozi establishes a committee chaired by his Deputy Lt Gen Sam Okiding; Inspector General of Police (IGP) Abbas Byakagaba; Arthur Mugyenyi, Director General of the Internal Security Organisation (ISO); Ambassador Joseph Ocwet, Director General of the External Security Organisation (ESO); Maj Gen Christopher Ddamulira, Director of Crime Intelligence; Brig Gen Tom Magambo, Director of the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID); and Col Ddamulira Sseruyange, Special Forces Command (SFC) Counter Intelligence officer.
Sources claim the inquiry was prompted by growing concerns within the top military and police leadership over inconsistencies in recent bomb threat reports attributed to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a designated terrorist organization operating in eastern DRC and linked to Islamic State.
