Gen Tinyefuza. FILE PHOTO
By Isaac Imaka (email the author)
Posted Monday, July 18 2011 at 08:14
Posted Monday, July 18 2011 at 08:14
Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Executive Director Jennifer Musisi has vowed to evict intelligence services coordinator Gen David Tinyefuza from the mult-billion house belonging to the authority in Kampala.
The house was controversially given to Gen Tinyefuza in March 2008 after a directive from the then Local Government Minister Kahinda Otafiire, who sighted ‘security reasons’ as the cause for the take over.
But while appearing on KfM’s Hot Seat programme at the weekend, Ms Musisi said the house is a property of KCCA and she would have it handed back.
Ms Musisi could not be reached for comment yesterday but a senior KCCA official who did not want to be quoted because of the sensitivity of the matter, said the authority was in the final stages of “serving the general with a vacation notice”.
“We shall tell him to vacate the house because it is council property. All property belonging to the authority well be re-posessed,” the official said.
Before it was taken over by the intelligence chief, the house used to be occupied by the council health chief inspector.
Before it was taken over by the intelligence chief, the house used to be occupied by the council health chief inspector.
The two storey building located at Plot 2, Mabua Road, in Kololo, serves as office premises and a command centre from where the UPDF General coordinates his intelligence work.
Gen Tinyefuza could not be reached for a comment by press time. When she was appointed the KCCA boss, Ms Musisi vowed to right the wrongs that have been going on in the management of Kampala city and promised never to have double standards in her efforts to put the city back on track. But Ms Musisi’s move will not be the first time that the city council tries to evict the UPDF strongman.
In 2009, Kampala City Council resolved that Gen Tinyefuza, was illegally occupying the house and then town clerk Ruth Kijjambu, told councillors that the security boss occupied the premises before council’s approval. She had promised to petition the current Local Government Minister, Mr Adolf Mwesige, over the issue. But two years down the road, the General is still occupying the premises.
If Ms Musisi’s plan succeeds, Gen Tinyefuza will become the second most influential person in government to be evicted from the KCCA’s property after former Kampala mayor Nasser Ntege Sebaggala.
Mr Sebaggala was forcefully evicted from a palatial Kololo house and had his property thrown out in the rain by KCCA’s bailiffs after ignoring numerous requests from the Lord Mayor, Elias Lukwago, and Ms Musisi to vacate the house, which he had dubiously acquired during his tenure as the city mayor.
Ms Sebaggala claimed that he obtained the house through a council resolution and he even had the President’s blessings. But efforts to get a comment from Gen Tinyefuza on whether the security reasons that necessitated the house takeover still exist, and how he is going to respond to KCCA, were futile as his phone went unanswered.
However, the house, which by the time of Tinyefuza’s takeover was valued at Shs5b, currently appears run down with its paint peeling off. There are unverified claims that the place is used as a heavy duty interrogation centre
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