

BY NATHAN NGOBI
Police were forced Saturday midmorning to swing in action and arrested two Members of parliament Nathan Nandala Mafabi and Patrick Okabe over land grabbing in Mbale
The MPs Nathan Nandala Mafabi of Budadiri west who doubles as FDC party Secretary General and his Serere counterpart Hon . Bishop Patrick Okabe clashed over plot 5 Bumbobi road located in Busamaga Mbale city.
Police PRO Elgon region Taitika Rogers confirmed the arrest of the two MPs and said that details of their land conflict will be disclosed later.” We brought them at police recorded statements and were given police bonds” said Taitika. The two legislators were held at Mbale CPS and forced to enter different police cells following an artillery exchange of verbal words as eash one piles accusations and counter attacks in denial of grabbing the said land under conflict but ascertaining ownership of it legally.
Okabe and Nandala Mafabi have for a long time been fighting over owneeship of the same land and reports from security reveal that Saturday morning the two met at the conflicted land while in possession of vigilant youths who nearly ended up into mob fight should police not acted quickly. Both MPs claim to have documentary evidences showing ownership of the plot of land and they have vowed to teach each other lessons in courts of law.
Shockingly Okabe pulled a land title of the said land which is in his names