Parliament has ordered Dorothy Kisaka’s Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) not to pay tax payers’ money to city businessman Bosco Muwonge for 10 acres of land needed for the resettlement of vendors, saying the land was highly overpriced.
Muwonge asked for $100m – about Shs370bn – for his 10 acres located in Kisenyi, Kampala. This means that an acre of the same goes for $10m or about Shs37bn.
Parliament’s Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (Cosase) whose chairperson is Nakawa West MP Joel Ssenyonyi, issued the directive to save tax payers’ money from being spent on a piece of land which they believe is overpriced.
MPs on the committee wondered why some people have decided to eat government money without shame.
“I am so perturbed that somebody can ask for Shs37Bn for an acre of land in Kampala. I think some Ugandans have decided to eat money with metallic teeth, without shame, they have reached that level,” said Kumi Municipality legislator Silas Aogon.
Soroti District Woman MP Anna Adeke Ebaju even labelled KCCA a ‘hub of corruption.’
“It isn’t in doubt that what is in KCCA is simply a hub of corruption. I listened to the report and issue of titling of land, consent judgments entered into all of this speaks to deep seated corruption in the system,” Adeke, who is a top leader at the opposition party FDC, explained.
“KCCA has a land management unit, it has a legal department and ED, why would KCCA continue having untiled land? It is because some people are profiting from the fact that that land isn’t titled. They are making money, there are so many deals that are being made on those pieces of land.”
Meanwhile, there are also wrangles on the same land being sold at an exorbitant price. There is a family which has claimed ownership of the same land and has even taken the matter to court.
Ssenyonyi’s Cosase was also unhappy with KCCA officials for failing to secure land titles for 48 pieces of land measuring approximately 37,755 hectares. The Auditor General has previously revealed that out of the 184 pieces of land measuring approximately 184.818 hectares that KCCA holds, 48 do not have land titles. The issue of Kisenyi land is part of the findings in the report by Cosase which followed up queries raised by the Auditor General after looking at the authority’s financial statements for the previous financial year.
MP Adeke’s labelling of KCCA as a corruption hub comes days after KCCA bosses were grilled for diverting city roads money. (See Details Here).
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