The murder case of Albert Kalula Makayi Mukasa a top land lord has deepened after court of appeal justice, Catherine Bamugemereire ordered the arrest and detention of two suspects.

The two suspects are John Ssesanga (41) a resident of Nasuuti, Mukono district and Christine Namirembe (40) a former land title registrar in Mukono district.

Bamugemereire ordered the land probe detectives to investigate all the people who connived with the suspect to grab over 2000 acres of land which belonged to the late Kalula. She also ordered the detectives to take Ssesanga to the government laboratory and get his DNA samples to examine whether he is biologically related to the late Kalula.

Before his arrest, Ssesanga testifed before the land probe that he was taken to stay with the late Kalula when he was four months after the death of his mother Amina Nakabugo who died in an accident along Masaka road.

“My lord, the late Ham Mukasa Sekiboobo, the former Kyaggwe chief was my grandfather. I was recognised by as a son of Albert Kalula who was a son to Ham Mukasa. Unfortunately, after his death, other family members like lawyer Peter Mulira and James Galabuzi disowned me because of the big estate he left,” Sesanga said.

Ssesanga revealed that Galabuzi and Mulira took his father to Butabiika hospital after forging medical documents that he was mentally sick. He said that his father was injected with four injections containing poisonous substance which disturbed his life and caused his death within 76 days.

Ssesanga said that after realizing that Galabuzi had taken his father to Butabika mental hospital, he ran to Resty Nakayenga Kigguli, an adviser to president Yoweri Museveni for assistance. Nakayenga intervened into their grievance, snatched Kalula from them and took him to a safe place, she chased Mulira and other relatives away from him until he recovered.

Ssesanga told the commission that when Kalula recovered, Nakayenga returned him to his home where he spent a few days and was attacked by a deadly disease.

“My lord, when Kalula was attacked by a deadly disease, I called madam Nakayenga who used her office to help me. She sent me a special car which took me and Kalula to hospital. Kalula died as soon as we reached hospital,” Sesanga said.

Ssesanga also testified that when they moved the body to Mulago mortuary, Mulira together with other relatives of Kalula came with armed men who intimidated them and chased them away from the body of his father.

He said that Mulira also stopped him from going for Kalula’s burial.

Ssesanga said that after Kalula’s death, Nakayenga took him to the administrator general’s office where he presented a will of the late Kalula. He was given a letter of no objection which he took to justice Moses Mukiibi to get powers of attorney to administer Kalula’s estate.

He added that Nakayenga assisted him to convince Lowera Ataro and Christine Namirembe, the former land title registrars in Mukono district to transfer Kalula’s land titles into his names.

He later started selling off some of Kalula’s land in Mukono, Nabuti, Ndeeba, Mengo and other places.

However, Ssesanga was put to task by Fred Ruhindi to explain why he took off when court ordered him to go for a DNA test with some of Kalula’s family members. Ruhindi also wondered why Ssesanga was refuting claims that Kalula was mentally sick when prominent people like former president of Uganda Lukongwa Binaisa swore an affidavit showing that Kalula was indeed mentally sick. Ruhindi said that Binaisa was studying with Kalula in UK and he was the one who brought him back to Uganda.

Ruhindi asked Ssesanga why he refused to go with his father to hospital under the excuse that he was keeping land titles and other documents which he suspected would be stolen by some members of Kalula’s family.

Justice Bamugemereire asked Ssesanga to explain where he got the will which was made on 24/10/2004 yet Kalula died on 25/10/2004, which he presented at the administrator general’s office to obtain a letter of no objection which he used to go to court to get powers of attorney.

Bamugemereire noted that the said will was declared forged by High Court but Ssesanga continued to use it.

She also wondered why Ssesanga obtained the powers of attorney knowing very well that Kalula’s other family members had also obtained powers of attorney in 2006.

“Now Mr. Ssesanga, you have been a fraudster using money to bribe everybody in the land registry. Do us a favour, go with my court order and make additional statements, tell them all the people who were behind you. You are also going for a DNA test in a government laboratory,” Bamugemereire said.

Bamugemereire also ordered the arrest of Christine Namirembe, a former registrar Mukono district land registry for helping Ssesanga even after receiving letters from CIID police department cautioning her on issuing any land transfer documents on Kalula’s estate because it was still under investigation.

Namirembe went ahead and transferred over 1000 acres of Kalula’s estate land into Ssesanga’s names.

The commission learnt that over 67 land titles were made within one month after the death of Kalula. It also discovered that some land titles were transferred within two minutes, Bamugemereire tasked Namirembe to explain to the detectives how that was possible.

It should remembered that city engineer James Galabuzi testified before the commission that a group of people lead by Resty Nakayenga murdered his father with a mission to grabbed his land. The commission of inquiry is still investigating the matter.

By Jamil Lutakome

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