Top managers of Ssese Oil Palm Growers Cooperative Society Limited in Kalangala District are in trouble over an alleged case of forgery in connection with acquisition of a 644-acre land.
The Police in Masaka are investigating circumstances under which the Oil Palm growing company acquired the land under questionable processes that deprived the beneficiaries of their interest.
Twaha Kasirye, the Police Spokesperson for the Greater Masaka Regional Police confirmed the investigations against Balironda David Mukasa, the company’s General Manager and Chairman, Cancoo Diamond.
“We summoned them (Balironda and Cancoo) but they did not appear. They were invited to help us in the ongoing investigations jointly with their lawyers. They are to appear in their personal capacities,” he said in a telephone interview.
The police made the remarks following failure of the accused persons to appear to make a statement.
On August 30, 2026, the police issued summons citing Section 28 of the Police Act that mandates them to invite or summon and or require the attendance of any person whom the Police have reason to believe has valuable or relevant information, exhibits or documents to assist the Police.
“You are required to report to Masaka Central Police Station CID office on Tuesday, the 8th day of September2026 at 900 to provide valuable information to the matter under investigation,” reads a copy of the Police summons obtained.
It is alleged that the named persons and their lawyers are accused of forgery and fraud in the process of acquiring the disputed land.
Documents obtained by this publication show that the Cooperative acquired the land in dispute from a deceased Michael Kinobe Sserunkuuma based on a Special Certificate of Title which was procured fraudulently.
A section of family members of the late Sserunkuuma allege that a police letter obtained from reporting the disappearance of the land title for the land was obtained from Kiteezi Police Station yet the deceased was a resident of Nsangi and that sometime he resided in Entebbe.
It is alleged that a complaint for the disappearance of the land was allegedly reported to the Police at Kiteezi on May 9, 2025, the same date the late Sserunkuuma and other family members signed a consent judgement with their relative Andrew Nganda Bugingo.
According to the consent decree, Bugingo was supposed to be given 20 acres from part of the land and Shs50 million as compensation to allow him vacate or remove the caveats he had lodged on the said land.
Bugingo states that the 20 acre that they agreed to be given to him was never honoured but instead the said land was entirely transferred to Ssese Oil Palm Growers’ Cooperative Society Limited.
Documents further states that on the same day of May 9, 2025 the late Sserunkuuma applied to Registrar of Titles, Mailo Office at Masaka MZO to be registered as a sole administrator of the estate of his late father which raises questions on how the processes were done in one day.
Another document shows that on November 26, 2024, the late Sserunkuuma jointly with two other administrators of the estate of their father, applied for a special certificate of title on the same day he reported the matter at Kiteezi Police.
The land in dispute currently occupied by oil Palm growers is located in Ssese Block 73, Plot 2 at Buyija on Bunyama Island in Kalangala District.
When contacted, one of the accused persons, Mr Balironda denied any wrongdoing in the process through which they acquired the said land saying that they introduced farmers to the landlord who was paid.
“For us we dealt with the landlord who died. What I know is that someone in that family disagreed and if he was not catered for, it is not for us because we paid him 50 million,” he said.
Asked about the Police case, Balironda said that they instructed their lawyer to represent them since they had a busy schedule in their company.
“I and my chairman did not do anything on our behalf but represented the organization and our role was to release money to bail out our farmers because they were going to lose their crops,” he said.
