The family of Ronald Muwenda Mutebi the Kabaka of Buganda has suffered a setback in the multibillion Mutungo hill land deal after the family of the late city tycoon Dr Muhammad Buwule Kasasa rejected the mediations led by Chief Justice Owiny Dollo
According to Dr Nulu Nakabonge Kasasa a daughter to the fallen controversial tycoon, the parties were expected this coming Monday to conclude the mediations and sign the deal supervised by Dollo at his Nakasero official home.
This investigative website has seen a letter dated October 3rd 2025 where lawyers of Kirunda and Company Advocates addressed other lawyers in the matter including Kiiza and Company Advocates and the Attorney Generals Chambers to confirm that their clients have accepted the deal and had agreed on a signing date.
“When the parties appeared before the Chief Justice on September 24, 2025, we reported that both camps were in advanced stages of arriving at a settlement. Our clients have agreed on the terms in the attached documents with the Appellants. We request that you confirm your clients, in order that all parties may have a harmonized position to report to the mediator,” a letter signed by Kirunda and Company Advocates reads in part.
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However, in protest letter received by the Office of the Chief Justice, a section of Dr Kasasa’s children who include Dr Nakabonge, Dean Badru Buwule, Akram Kaye Kasasa and Joy Nakanyike Kasasa protested the signing of the deal insisting that the administrators of the Estate of the late Sir Edward Walugembe Mutesa, father to Kabaka Mutebi and the Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka fraudulently want to grab their father’s Estate through the said mediations.
“We write with the utmost respect for your office to formally protest the Supreme Court’s referral of the long-standing Mutungo Hill dispute to mediation. This case, which concerns the estate of the late Dr Muhammad Buwule Kasasa, has been the subject of over two decades of litigation. The referral to mediation is not only procedurally irregular but also subverts multiple, conclusive judicial rulings that have already affirmed Dr Kasasa’s rightful and indefeasible ownership of the land in question,” a protest letter reads in part.
The contested land is situated on Kyadondo Block 237 plot 178 and 388 at Mutungo Hill Nakawa Division Kampala city measuring more than 600 acres and according to the protest letter, Kasasa and Kabaka Mutebi’s family have been in Court for more than 20 years battling over who is the rightful owner.
The protest letter cited grave concerns of institutional bias and conflict of interest which taint the mediation process.
They insist that the fact that Dollo cannot is directly mediating a dispute involving parties with deep historical ties to both the judiciary and the monarchy 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 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 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 to oversees 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 children further accuse 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 to 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 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.
This website have seen a memorandum of understanding which was prepared by K&K Advocates which has not yet been signed where parties agreed to share the entire property by 50-50 and according to the documents, the Attorney General’s chambers were involved in the deal and are represented by Kiryowa Kiwanuka’s blue eyed boy George Kalemera because of the government institutions including the Offices of the External Security Organisation (ESO), schools and other highly guided security installation that are situated on the contested land.
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 younger brother Prince David Kintu Wasajja and her sister Nnaalinnya Sarah Kagere who are the administrators of the estate of their father insist that Kasasa fraudulently obtained Mutungo hill land and even contested the evidence he brought showing that he bought the contested land from the bank when Kabaka was in the exile.
Even 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.
Efforts to get a comment from Attorney General Kiwanuka were futile since our phone calls to him went unanswered.
However, he recently told one of our reporters that since his appointment as the Attorney General in 2021, he resigned from K&K Advocates and he is not responsible for whatever takes place in the law firm.
