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Kabaka wants Makerere land returned to him
Buganda king, Kabaka Ronald Mutebi has written to government asking it to return to him 92.72 acres of land that currently houses Makerere University main campus.
Posted Sunday, June 20 2010 at 00:00
Nsibirwa was later murdered at Namirembe Cathedral in the 1950s. The then colonial governor negotiated a settlement and secured a lease in the name of Makerere College Council and compulsorily acquired the stretch up to Bwaise for which a free hold title was issued.
Buganda has been demanding from the central government some 350sq miles comprised under the royal estate under the Kabaka and some 9000sq miles formerly crown land that had been vested in the control of the central government among other unreturned properties.
Makerere University boasts prominent alumni in the region including former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa and Kenya’s Mwai Kibaki.
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