Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Speaker Zahara Luyirika together with some City Councilors have put up a spirited physical fight to stop controversial Shawuriyako city businessman Hajji Asuman Nkambwe and police from arresting their very own Micdad Muganga who is implicated fraud scandal.
Early this month, Buganda Road Court issued a warrant of arrest against Muganga a brother to former Kawempe South legislator Mubrack Munyagwa Sserunga and also Makerere Councillor to City Hall after he failed to honor several Court summons to appear before the Magistrate Court and answer criminal charges related to fraud.
Nkambwe who is the complaint told to TV10GanoMazima that for over two years, he has been looking for Muganga and on several occasions petitioned Lord Mayor Ssalongo Erias Lukwago, Kampala City Senior Minister Hajjat Minsa Kabanda, city Executive Director Dr. Dorothy Kisaka, Munyagwa and Lubaga North Legislator Abubaker Kawalya to help him to get justice in vain until court issued arresting warranting.
“That’s why I decided to get a spy here (city hall) to inform me once they see Muganga here.Today morning (last week Tuesday), I got a phone call from one of them telling me that Muganga was here attending City Council meeting. I rushed to Kampala Central Police Station to get policemen to help me arrest the man from here,” Nkambwe recounted.
He explained that security at City Hall first tried to stop them from accessing the premises but a police officer who was leading the operation showed them the Court warrant and they were allowed.
He narrated that they agreed not to interrupt the ongoing KCCA Council meeting but wait from outside until themeeting was done.
Within a few minutes Faridah Nakabugo, a city councilor representing Lubaga Division stormed out of the meeting and started taking pictures of all people outside.
A source who was inside the KCCA meeting revealed to TV10GanoMazima that when Muganga received a text message from his people outside informing him that police had surrounded city hall and wanted to arrest him, he raised the matter before the Speaker complaining that there are people who want to arrest him on fabricated charges.
The Councilors started protesting why security wants to arrest a Councilor in the middle of a meeting. When Nakabugo came back to the meeting, she gave her phone to Muganga to see the man who wanted to arrest him. Herealised that it was Nkambwe.
The Councilors started asking the speaker to order security at KCCA to throw out Nkambwe and the policemen but Councilor Ivan Mubiru who represents Busega offered to go and talk to Nkambwe because using force was going to deepen the worrying situation.
Mubiru tried to plead with Nkambwe not to embarrass Muganga by arresting him at the city hall like a chicken thief but Nkambwe insisted that this was the only opportunity to arrest Muganga so that he may face the long arm of the law.
Mubiru went back to the council meeting and briefed fellow Councillor who stormed out of the meeting.
Councilor Nakabugo started insulting Nkambwe who made several phone calls asking for more policemen.
She realised that she was also going to be arrested, she quickly went back to the Council hall.
One of the heads of Security at City Hall then pleaded with Nkambwe and the policemen to leave the Council hall to allow the Councilors to proceed with the meeting.
He promised them that once the meeting is concluded, he will help them to execute a court directive which they accepted.
When the meeting was completed, Muganga was dressed with the Speaker’s gown, surrounded by fellow Councilors and he sneaked out of the Council hall to the Speaker’s Office.
Nkambwe said that they waited until 10pm in the evening but no one was coming out of the speaker’s office.They were informed that the person they wanted had used the back door and left city hall.
“Now I am going back to Court to tell the Chief Magistrate who issued this order that Luyirika and Nakabugo objected to the execution of his order, and he will advise accordingly. I want to assure them, they will pay,” Nkambwe said.
He claims that in 2021, he was approached by Muganga and Andul Byakatonda the workers legislator who by then was the chairperson of the Indian properties Custodian Board in charge of Kampala city.
The duo gave him a deal to buy three properties owned by KCCA which were up for sale by lease.
The properties were situated on plot 23 Martin Road, Plot 34 Rashid Khamis Road and plot 18 Ben Kiwanuka road.
He was supposed to pay Shs3bn for all the properties.
He instruct his lawyer Nathan Mpenje who was working with Lukwago and Company Advocates then before establishing his own law firm to verify the property ownership before he paid the money.
The lawyer reported to him that the buildings were indeed owned by KCCA and he paid the money which he borrowed from city money lenders.
He instruct his lawyer to proceed with the process of transferring the properties into his names.
However, he was surprised to learn that the properties are owned by Indian Properties Custodian Board.
He started asking Byakatonda and Muganga to return his money but they decided to hide from him.
He decided to institute criminal proceedings against them until Court issued warrant of arrest against Muganga who declined to honour court summons.
Byakatonda declined to comment on the matter claiming that it is a court matt
