

By Sadique Bamwita
Entebbe
Charles Odhimbo Onyango, a son to the late Bonifas Onyango Oduol who was in charge of stores at Entebbe State House during Idi Amin’s regime, is in fight over a disputed piece of Land on Block 442, Plot 2, in in Katabi/Busambaga Estate, Entebbe municipality.
A week ago, unidentified land grabbers armed with guns, pangas and other breaking equipment demolished his structures and cutdown his cassava plantation, coffee plantation and a banana plantation claiming ownership of the disputed land.

The following day the land grabbers started erecting a building on the disputed land prompting Charles Odhimbo Onyango to file the matter to Entebbe police station and the office of Entebbe Deputy Resident District Commissioner. The Office of Entebbe Deputy RDC has since halted any construction on the disputed piece of land pending hearing from the alleged land grabbers who are yet to appear in RDC’s office for a fair hearing.
Onyango contends that he inherited the disputed piece of land from his father, Late Bonífas Onyango Oduol who acquired it in 1958.
He adds that the said Land was given to his late father by the Buganda Kingdom with the support of the Governor Sir Andrew Cohen through Sebugwawo Edmond, the proprietor of this Land.

“This was between 1959. My late father had a friend by the Names of COTINO “the Italian hunter”. By then Governor Sir Andrew Cohen was staying in the State House and my father was also working there. My father was given a Kibanja, and on that Kibanja he gave a portion to his friend Coutinho the Italian hunter, ” he explained.
‘Time came my father passed on leaving the family of Coutinho occupying the given portion. Now Coutinho Kayaga wants to grab this Land by claiming for the whole Kibanja that belongs to the Italian hunter family. To my dismay Kayaga claims to have the certificate of Title to this Land and the Land is on Blue Page. Am the administrator of my Late father and I have the Letters of Administration.’