Family petitions Museveni to restrain aide over property row
Under contestation. The property in Makindye Division, Kampala, which is being claimed by a family and a former maid. PHOTO BY RACHEL MABALA
A relative of a deceased woman whose property is at the centre of a wrangle has petitioned President Museveni to prevail on his assistant secretary to stop abusing his office to perpetrate corruption.
Mr Blasio Bwire, a relative of late Dora Namusoke Mulumba, on August 12 wrote to the President’s Principal Private Secretary, accusing Mr Edward Ochieng, the presidential assistant on land matters, of disposing of the property the family lawfully inherited.
“I do petition your authority to intervene so that the children of the said deceased are not defrauded of their property. The said properties are located at (a) Kawuku Block 248, Plot 267, Kyadondo and (b) Lukuli, Makindye Block 261, Plots 262 and 363,” Mr Bwire states in the petition.
Last week, Daily Monitor ran a story of how one Ms Aisha Nankabirwa, a former maid to Namusoke, had refused to vacate the premises since 2011 after the death of her former employer.
Both family lawyers and members say when they asked Ms Nankabirwa to leave the premises as Namusoke had directed before death, she refused. After Namusoke’s death, the maid assumed control of the property and started renting out some of the facilities. When she was notified of the intention to evict her, she sought protection from Mr Ochieng.
Mr Bwire said Mr Ochieng and Ms Nankabirwa are trying to rewrite the Will of the deceased to claim the property.
Namusoke’s Will is in custody of a lawyer, Mr Isaac Dylan Jombwe.
Mr Bwire said while Ms Nankabirwa claims to protect the interest of the family members, the deceased did not bequeath any part of her property to family members except her children.
Mr Bwire also said the High Court granted Mr Jombwe powers to administer the Will.
Attempts to get a response from Mr Ochieng on the claims against him were futile as we could not reach him on his known mobile phone numbers.
However, he had earlier told Daily Monitor that the Will and other documents which Mr Jombwe had presented were doubtful, adding that he was still investigating the matter to establish who had the authentic Will.
