The Anti-Corruption Unit has arrested eleven (11) personnel of 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.
On December 22, 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 one Yusuf Semakula.
In January, the Unit in collaboration with Police at Kira Road police station arraigned six suspects before the KCCA Chief Magistrate’s Court on charges of aggravated robbery and conspiracy to commit a felony.
The suspects were arrested on the night of January 5, 2024, after they went without any court orders and 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.
Officers at Kira Police Station were able to swiftly respond to a distress call made by another family member and apprehend the six suspects who indicated to the police that they had also been sent by Yusuf Ssemakula, who is sighted in several similar cases of illegal evictions reported to the Unit.
This incident was investigated by the 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 December 23, 2023.
Despite this injunction, Yusuf Semakula on March 1, 2024 caused a second eviction of the family from the premises and deployed Magnum Security prompting yesterday’s action by the Unit.
