KAMPALA: State House Anti-Corruption Unit in liaison with Police have arrested and arraigned Charles Kyagaba a businessman before chief Magistrates Court Entebbe on charges of malicious damage to a house belonging to Margret Kyomuhangi found in Ziru Village, Wakiso district and he has been remanded until September 19, 2022.
It’s alleged that the accused and other three who are still at large, on April 23, 2022, unlawfully destroyed a house structure belonging to a lady identified as Margret Kyomuhangi claiming that she built a house in his Kibanja.
The land in Ziru belongs to Catholic Church and it is occupied by bibanja owners including Margret Kyomuhangi who had bought her kibanja from Queen Mary Nayiga.
So the acussed Charles Kyagaba with others include; Benon Kabuusu, Komachech and Wasswa who are his workers forcefully demolished Kyomuhangi’s house with the view of chasing her away from his Kibanja saying she had bought it fraudulently from Nayiga which was not the case.
So, Kyomuhangi complained to Entebbe police station where she was not assisted because of the influence of Kyagaba who connived with the police officers. Therefore, she later brought the complaint to State House Anti-Corruption Unit which took over the inquiries of the files and Kyagaba was brought to court.
According to the investigations its understood that the accused is involved in several land frauds in the areas of Entebbe, where he claims kibanja interest on people’s land using fraudulently obtained court documents to get various orders as basis for his clams of ownership.