By Our Reporter
NATIONAL
State House Anti-Corruption Unit has arrested eleven Private guards employed by Magnum security, a private security company which had been illegally deployed to evict and consequently guard a contested property on Plot 106, Old Kira Road, Ntinda.
The arrests were carried out on Monday, 11th March, 2024 with the help of Kira Rd police.
According to a statement by the State House Anti-corruption Unit, on 26 December 2022, the family home of the late Eng. Johnson Eliba Orech that was on the said land was demolished without a court order after a similar attack by people acting on the orders of a one Yusuf Semakula.
This incident was investigated by State House Anti-Corruption Unit and the status quo (occupation of the property by the Eliba family) was to be maintained pending the conclusion of court cases as to the ownership of the property at the Court of Appeal which issued an interim injunction to that effect on 23rd December 2023.
“Despite this injunction, Yusuf Semakula on 1st March 2024, caused a 2nd eviction of the family from the premises and deployed Magnum Security prompting yesterday’s action by the Unit,” reads the statement in part.
In January, 2024, the same Semakula deployed 6 youths to demolish the same house leading to their arrest and prosecution over aggravated Robbery and Conspiracy to Commit a Felony.
The suspects were arrested on the night of 5/1/2024, after they without any court orders forcefully accessed the partially demolished family home of the late Eng. Johnson Eliba Orech armed with machetes and violently attacked and robbed one of the family members of his phone and money.
The family home had earlier been illegally demolished without any Court Order after a similar attack by people acting on the instructions of Yusuf Ssemakula on 26th Dec 2022.
Officers at Kira Police Station were able to swiftly respond to a distress call made by another family member and apprehended the 6 suspects who indicated to the police that they had also been sent by Yusuf Ssemakula, who is cited in several similar cases of illegal evictions reported to the Unit.
The suspects included; Lukwago Julius, Kato Hussien, Okello Peter, Katerega Umar, Ochen Hussien, and Bahati Godfrey.
Now the 11 private guards join the 6 who are being prosecuted by the State House Anti-Corruption Unit at KCCA Chief Magistrate’s Court.
