By Hannah Marion Namukasa
Controversial city businessman Moses Kalungi has been arrested and detained for allegedly grabbing a multibillion property belonging to the estate of the late tycoon, Muhammad Kasasa.
Dr Kasasa died in 2024 after battling a long illness leaving property worth billions of shillings in and around Kampala.
However, sources say that Kalungi together with other fraudulent persons in Kampala have since embarked on illegally taking ownership of some property without following the due process of the law.
Kampala Metropolitan Police deputy spokesperson, Luke Oweyesigire has confirmed the arrest and detention of Kalungi at the Kampala Central Police Station.
Sources within the police say that Kalungi spent a night in the Police coolers.
Oweyesigire could not reveal the details of his arrest but referred this publication to the Criminal Investigations Directorate
Mariam Natasha, the spokesperson of the State House Anti Corruption Unit also confirmed Kalungi’s arrest.
She said that Kalungi is facing accusations of fraudulent procurement of a building in Kampala.
“Investigations into the matter are still ongoing in this case,” she said in a telephone interview.
Kalungi’s arrest was sparked by a dispute over ownership of a property located at Mengo near Kampala on Block 4, Plot 3001 and 3002 at Kibuga and Block 4, Plots 936 and 938 Namirembe Kibuga.
Kalungi told Samuel Kagoda the Assistant Registrar of the Land Division of the High Court that he sold the property to Namuwongo Processing Industries Limited when was on the locus visit.
Kalungi a former Makindye Division mayor stated that after buying the said property from Dr Kasasa’s children who where registered owners at a price of Shs2.5bn because he used borrowed money to buy it, he was under financial pressure which forced him to sell it so as to get the money to clear the debts.
It alleged that the said Namuwongo Processing Industries limited is a company owned by Kalungi and his wife Jennifer Mujungu Kalungi, the Ntoroko District Woman Member of Parliament.
In his evidence, Kalungi told Court that he no longer has powers on the said building boasting that new owners are pressuring him to give them a vacant possession so as to renovate it and start using it as a business to recover their money invested in buying it.
Dr Noor Nakabonge Kasasa, one of the seven registered proprietors who dragged Kalungi to the Land Division of the High Court places Kalungi on the wall to name the children who sold the said building to him noting that as owner, she was not consulted about the sale which he failed to answer.
She further states that Kalungi fraudulently vacated the caveat placed on the land title at the land registry and fraudulently transferred it into his name which resulted into her dragging him to State House Anti-Corruption Unit and at police’s Criminal Investigation Directorate (CID) where investigations are still ongoing.
Dr Nakabonge accuses Kalungi of using violence and without following the legal procedure to evict her and her family business which was operating on the building including KBS television and their operating equipment where stolen by goons he brought to execute the illegal eviction.
The development comes as Nakabonge and other children of Dr Kasasa are in Supreme Court protesting the deal mediated by former Chief Justice Owiny Dollo to share more than one square mailo land on Mutungo hill in Nakawa Division Kampala city with the family of Ronald Muwenda Mutebi the Kabaka of Buganda.
Dr Nakabonge insists that the said land was bought by her father, the late Dr Kasasa noting that Court confirmed the purchase as legal, wondering why they are sharing it with Kabaka Mutebi’s family which sold it when it was in exile after the 1966 Buganda crisis.
