The State House Anti-Corruption Unit working with police on Monday arrested 11 personnel of Magnum Security, a private security company, who had been illegally deployed to evict and guard a contested property on Plot 106, Old Kira Road, Ntinda, a Kampala suburb.
On 26 December 2022, the family home of the late Eng. Johnson Eliba Orech that was on the said land was demolished without a court order after a similar attack by people acting on the orders of one Yusuf Semakula.
This incident was investigated by the State House Anti-Corruption Unit and the status quo (occupation of the property by the Eliba family) was to be maintained pending the conclusion of court cases as to the ownership of the property at the Court of Appeal which issued an interim injuction to that effect on 23rd December 2023.
Despite this injuction, Yusuf Semakula on 1st March 2024, caused a 2nd eviction of the family from the premises and deployed Magnum Security prompting yesterday’s action by the Unit.
This comes two months after the State House Unit together with police arraigned 6 suspects before the KCCA Chief Magistrate’s Court on charges of aggravated robbery and conspiracy to commit a felony.
The suspects were arrested on the night of 5/1/2024, after without any court orders forcefully accessed the partially demolished family home of the late Eng. Johnson Eliba Orech armed with machetes and violently attacked and robbed one of the family members of his phone and m