Court orders eviction of police chief from property
KAMPALA. The Executions and Bailiffs Division of the High Court has ordered the eviction of the head of police’s Directorate of Crime Intelligence, Lt Col Ndahura Birakurataki Atwooki, from the continued illegal occupation of prime property previously owned by departed Asians located in Old Kampala.
According to the eviction order dated June 15 issued by the registrar of the court, Mr Muse Musimbi, Lt Col Atwooki is to be evicted latest Friday so as to give possession to the rightful owner of the prime property, Mr Aneez Jaffer. The eviction is to be carried out by the court bailiffs of Ezama Apollo Olema.
“Whereas Atwooki B Ndahura consented to the order of this court to give vacant possession and handover the suit property.
Whereas the said defendant has not vacated the said suit comprised in Plot 16 Old Kampala Road LVR 2631 Folio 13, this is to direct Ezama Apollo Olema Court Bailiffs to remove Ndahura Atwooki, their agents or any other bound by this order and put Aneez Jaffer in possession of the suit property,” reads in part the court’s eviction order.
Court documents that this newspaper has seen show that the petitioner in this matter, Mr Jaffer, is a representative of the departed Asians who claimed the repossession of the said piece of property in question.
However, Lt Col Ndahura and Bernard Tumwesigire, who are both senior army officers, had made some developments on the disputed piece of land but demanded to be compensated before they could give full possession of the land to Mr Jaffer.
Mr Jaffer, according to a consents agreement, he jointly paid off Lt Col Ndahura and Tumwesigire a total sum of Shs65m. “The plaintiff shall pay the defendants (Lt Col Ndahura and Mr Tumwesigire) jointly through their lawyers M/S Ruyondo & Co Advocates a total sum of Shs65m only as compensation and a handshake for the repairs effected on the suit property and as a send off in full and final settlement of the counterclaim within 30 days from the date of this consent judgment..” reads in part the consent agreement dated November 20, 2009.
Subsequently, Mr Tumwesigire gave Mr Jaffer the vacant possession of the property but Lt Col Ndahura has since reneged, hence this eviction order of the court. Efforts to reach out to Lt Col Ndahura about the looming eviction were futile as he did not take or return any of our repeated calls to his cellular phone.
