By Robert E. Owiny Monday 13/10/08
THERE WAS pandemonium in Mukwenda zone near Makerere university, Kawempe division on Monday morning, when an unknown armed men stormed residence and begun demolishing their houses.
According to John Muwanguzi a resident of the area, the intruders came with guns and a grader number UAH 400 and threatened to shoot anybody who tried to oppose their work.
However Muwanguzi said residence awoke immediately on realising the mess and confronted the intruders with pangas and sticks before police at Wandegeya intervened at dawn.
Two people were wounded in the fracas including the area LC1 chairperson George Ssekiyunga and Junior Balam, a retail businessman. Residence alleged that the former was beaten up because he has been involved in the attempt to sale their land.
Area Member of Parliament Ssebuliba Mutumba said the land has been under claims by different people who present strange documents from different courts and authorities.
“A lot has been said about that land. Different groups have been claiming the land using different documents which are highly contentious. On this particular night the people who came, am told were on police uniform, and even the police is not aware of the group” Mutumba said.
District Police Comander Wandegeya Police, Phillip Acaye said the people in charge of the mayhem are not yet identified but the Grader and some suspects are in police custody, adding that full investigation is going on. END.
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