Kabaka Dragged To Court Over Land Titles

The Kabaka of Buganda Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II has been dragged to the High court -Civil division over his newly launched scheme of “Ekyapa mu ngalo” (title in the Hands) for any occupant on the Buganda land.

Kabaka wants every occupant to get lease of 49 years at a certain amount of money yet to be announced.

Kabaka’s accuser is his subject Male Mabirizi Kiwanuka, a lawyer by profession who has since filed a series of cases against his kingdom challenging its land scheme.

In this instant application, Male Mabirizi seeks an Injunction against the implementation of the “Ekyapa mu ngalo” scheme saying him and many other Baganda whose interests he represents will suffer an irreparable damage and loss since they are required to pay a certain amount of fee to obtain these  releases.

Mabirizi also accuses the Kabaka of unlawfully collecting ground rent (Busuulu) from all settlers of the official mailo land under the guise that he is the Land lord yet in actual sense he is a mere trust of the said land.

He now wants the kingdom activities of collecting Busuulu and leasing out the land to be halted until his main case he filed challenging the same is heard and disposed of.