UGANDA, Masaka | Real Muloodi News | The high court in Masaka found Tycoon Ben Kavuya, the Chairman and founding member of Legacy Group and Global Capital Savings Company guilty of obtaining a land title in a manner that contravened the law. As a result, Justice Victoria Nakintu Nkwanga Katumba ordered the cancellation of the tycoon’s land title with a penalty of USh 200 million to meet the cost of the lawsuit and any general damages.
Tycoon Ben Kavuya oversees the development of Rutungu Investments, which has grown from a small start-up with a few employees to a multi-million company.
It was widely publicised in the media on 26th of June that Justice Victoria Nakintu Nkwanga Katumba had ruled that “the registration of the defendant as proprietor on the suit land was fraudulent and unlawful. And that the land is part of the estates of the late Yofesi Botereza, Mikairi Ntirindunga, Paul Ntago, Rwamwizire, Bulasio Kamanzi, Gelvasi Nyiringabo and Samwiri Rwitirinya.”
Mr Kavuya insisted he had bought the 714.3 hectares of land in Kabula County, Sembabule District, in 1994. He claimed that the registered proprietors and squatters on the land knew and consented to the purchase.
In 2015, seven people brought the lawsuit against Mr Kavuya. These were Mr Byaruhanga Kasirye, Godfrey Kato, the administrator of the estate of the late Bulasio Kamanzi, Mr James Nzabamwita, Mr James Reberon, the administrator of the estate of Gelvasi Nyirangabo, Mr Edward Rutaaba, Mr Robert Kamunini, and Mr Yosam Mugisha, the administrator of the estate of the late Samwiri Rwitirinya.
The court documents show that the complainants accuse Mr Kavuya of “using a court order to transfer the land to his name.”
Furthermore, they also told the court that “Mr. Kavuya acquired another part of the land on the basis of a sales agreement he signed with a group of cattle keepers calling themselves the Kasana Balunzi Cooperative Society.”
They claimed that “the sale agreement could not be legitimate because the said vendors had no interest in the land.”
Additionally, they argued that the sales agreement “should not have been used by Mr. Kavuya to transfer all the 714.3 hectares into his name” even if the contract was legitimate and legal.
The complainants argued that the court should declare that the sales agreement between the members of the Kasana Balunzi Cooperative Society and Mr Kavuya was fraudulent and of no consequence basing on the fact that the Kasana Balunzi Cooperative Society were not the registered proprietors of the land.
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