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The parliamentary committee investigating the National Social Security Fund controversial Temangalo land transaction has summoned the Permanent Secretary in the Lands ministry to explain why it has taken the ministry six months to transfer NSSF’s three land titles.
The committee chairman, Mr Johnson Malinga, said PS Gabindadde David Musoke would be required to appear today to explain the delay of the title transfers, two of which are still in the names of Mr Amos Nzeyi, one of the sellers alongside Security Minister Amama Mbabazi.
“The Lands’ Ministry selectively failed to transfer three titles because according to the NSSF bosses, they wanted investigations to first end but then why did they transfer some?” Mr Malinga wondered.
“It looks like there is a deal between Mr Nzeyi and the Lands Ministry that we want the PS to explain to us tomorrow,” Mr Malinga said.
In his September 18 submission, the Geo-maps surveyor, Mr John Musungu, said the untransferred plots were Plots 12 with 165.28 acres with a school, a health centre, a police post and Mr Nzeyi’s house and also Plot 20 has 84.6 acres with a road reserve.
This means the land which Mr Nzeyi sold was encumbered and some MPs said it could be the reason why the ministry had taken long to transfer the tittles.
The plan to summon PS Musoke was reached after the committee received submissions from the bonafide land occupants also claiming that Mr Nzeyi still lived on the land.
More than 20 occupants of the land appeared and pleaded with the committee to help them escape eviction from their new landlord because they were not told of the sale.
“We don’t want to be sent away,” pleaded their team leader Mr Boniface Nyombi, who claimed to have lived on Mr Nzeyi’s land for more than 40 years.
However the committee vice chairman, Mr Abdu Katuntu, assured them that no one was going to evict them as their fears were.
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