KCCA dissatisfied with court ruling

 

The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) executive Director, Jenifer Musisi says she is dissatisfied with the ruling that was made on the 13th day of July 2012 by Justice Stephen Kavuma. The application for interim order was against KCCA, its agents, employees or servants from acting on the advice of the solicitor general or on its own motion and from taking any steps to disband the Kampala district land board and transferring its functionality and powers to the Uganda Land Commission or creating its own new land board.

The honourable court pronounced itself and granted the interim order and in the terms requested by the application in their application but went ahead to issue an order against the Uganda police or any other security agency.

Ms Musisi in the news statement today says that KCCA take the issue with the manner of the order because it is based on a fallacy that KCCA is a desirous of disbanding Kampala District Land Board and transferring its functions to Uganda Land Commission. That KCCA under the pretext of investigating criminality in Kampala District Land Board is actually pursuing an agenda of purging Kampala district land board and that KCCA is using the police to execute the aforementioned.

Ms Musisi says that KCCA would now like to categorically state that the institution is committed to the rule of law and that explains why it has taken the following steps: sought the solicitor general’s opinion on the question of the legality of the existence of Kampala District Land Board for which it received a responce and shared with Kampala district land board. The Kampala district land board disagreed with the said opinion. KCCA invited the police to investigate allegations by the public of criminal activities by the members of Kampala district land board.

She also says that KCCA followed the police advice to secure the Kampala district land board offices and the documents therein which are within the KCCA premises, pending conclusion of the said criminal investigations.

Whereas KCCA disagrees with the ruling of the court, Musisi says they are mindful of the court’s emphasis that the responsibility of resolving the impasse lies with the attorney general and KCCA.

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