Fugitive City Land Fraudster Pinned On Property Damage Charges

By Our Reporter

Police in Kampala are hunting a notorious land fraudster to answer charges relating to criminal trespass and malicious damage to property.
The fugitive conman has been identified as Yusuf Ssemakula alias Nasif.
Documents obtained by The Second Opinion website indicate that Ssemakula landed in trouble after a group of property vandals named him as the brain behind their unlawful acts.
The vandals including Timothy Mawomelo, 40, Jemba Michael, 32, and Mulondo Stephen, 56, among others at large implicated Ssemakula after they were arrested and charged with criminal trespass and malicious damage to the property of Mzee Hezekiah Mukiibi.
According to the criminal trespass charge sheet slapped against the accused vide CRB 653/2018, police investigations show that on September 6, 2018, the group together with their accomplices still at large entered Mukiibi’s land with intent to annoy or intimidate him. The said land is comprised in Block 185 Plot 755 at Kito Village in Kira Municipality, Wakiso district.
In another related charge sheet filed vide CRB 652/2018, police avers that on September 6, 2018, Jemba Michael, Mawomelo Timothy and others at large willfully and unlawfully damaged Mukiibi’s property including a cassava garden, maize and banana plantations as well as avocado and jackfruit trees.

The charge sheet adds that the group committed the malicious damage after unlawfully entering Mukiibi’s land comprised in Block 185 Plots 8151, 8152 and 749 at Kito village in Kira Municipality, Wakiso district.  

Ssemakula pinned
It has however emerged that following the group’s arrest, they pinned one Yusuf Ssemakula as being one of the key people behind this vandalism.
Known as a notorious city land grabber, Ssemakula has for a long time tormented Mzee Hezekiah on his land. In fact, earlier in march 2021, Ssemakula caused trouble for a group of senior Police detectives when the IGP instructed the Criminal Intelligence Directorate to investigate their possible collusion with Ssemakula in matters relating to Mzee hezekiah’s land.
Particularly, the IGP’s office wanted to ascertain whether its officers including Dennis Namuwoza, Michael Musane, Muhumuza Benard, Milondo and D/ASP Namatovu Judith were conniving with Ssemakula to frustrate justice for Mzee Hezekiah Mukiibi of Namugongo in Kira Municipality, Wakiso district.
The IGP intervened after Ssemakula cried foul that despite court and police ordering grabbers off his land, the same grabbers had not backed off and were instead slapping him with fictitious charges meant to dispossess him of his land comprised at Namugongo in Block 185 Plots 8151, 8152, 8153 and 8154 which are formerly Plots 385 and plot 2458 respectively.
The IGP further picked interest in the matter after it was realized that despite Ssemakula being exonerated from any wrongdoing, a total of eight files that were supposed to help him fend off the land grabbers got lost in the hands of police officers who investigated his cases.
All these problems however would be traced to the invisible hand of Yusuf Ssemakula. It is against this background that the IGP also ordered the arrest of Ssemakula alias Nassif who has however remained a fugitive to date.
As the hunt for Ssemakula rages on however, confessions police got from the accused revealed that the fictitious cases upon which they based to maliciously damage Mukiibi’s property are fuelled by Ssemakula. Apparently, the group says Ssemakula works with a one Juma Kayondo (and other bibanja speculators) who boasts that he is a connected man who also works to advance the interests of big men in government, led by Al-hajji Moses Kigongo, the NRM vice chairman.
“He (Juma) says he can access any office; be it the IGG’s so he fears no one in government and security since he is connected,” one of the accused told police.