REVEALED! Here’s Nalukoola’s role in crafty city lawyers’ plot to grab client’s multibillion property
Counsel Nalukoola (R) and the accuser
By Our Reporter
Newly elected Kawempe North Member of Parliament Elias Luyimbaazi Nalukoola, of the National Unity Platform (NUP) party, has been named in a scandal involving a group of lawyers who connived to grab their client’s property worth billions of shillings. Nalukoola, a leading opposition legislator and the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights, doesn’t value the rights of others, especially after what he did to his former client, Immaculate Nakawooya Mutumba, as we shall show in this expose.
Genesis of the Matter
Nakawooya, 68, is an elderly Ugandan national based in the United States of America, where she is battling terminal cancer, and she says trouble for her started when she hired city lawyer Samuel Ocitti to manage her properties in Uganda.
The properties include: Kibanja on Mutungo Block 273 Plot 25121 (BLB/02/9844) land measuring 1.492 Hectares, Kyadondo Block 256 Plot 756 Land at Bunamwaya, Kyadondo Block 269 Plot 750, Land at Lweza, Busiro Block 444-445 Plot 1914, Land at Nkumba and Busiro Block 149 Plot 342 Land at Kakiri, Kikandwa.
Being elderly, ill and out of Uganda, in 2018, Nakawooya hired Ocitti, a lawyer with Lwere, Lwanyaga & Co. Advocates, to manage the properties on her behalf, hoping he was faithful and would perform his duties with due diligence.
However, little did she know that Ocitti would later turn around, conniving with fellow lawyers of Lwere, Lwanyaga and Co. Advocates to grab the property, parcel it and re-register it in their respective names without her consent.
It is important to note that when Nakawooya hired Ocitti in 2018, she handed over to him copies of her land titles and sale agreements, which he was to hold in confidence.
However, in 2022, when she discovered that he was not a licensed advocate in Uganda as he claimed, and she terminated his contract—instead of surrendering the land titles and other documents about the property, Ocitti hatched a plot with Abdul Swabur Marzuq and other lawyers of Lwere, Lwanyaga and Co. Advocates decided to forge several documents indicating that Nakawooya had sold the properties to them.
It is important to note that during the time Ocitti had worked for Nakawooya as her lawyer, she had paid him over Shs200m for his services plus several other emoluments, among them building a house for his mother in the village in Gulu.
How Ociiti and Marzuq Pulled off the Scam
It is important to note that Abdul Swabur Marzuq is Ocitti’s boss, so the two worked closely to hatch the plot to grab Nakawooya’s properties as follows; When Nakawooya terminated Ocitti’s contract, he, together with Marzuq and others, registered a phony company called Organic Empire Limited, which they claimed had bought part of her property.
They went ahead to forge sales agreements indicating that she had sold them the land and properties in her estate; forged land transfer forms and registered ownership of the land in their names. Ocitti, conniving with Global Land International Property Services SMC LTD, a company that Nakawooya had earlier hired to manage her estate, grabbed property in Mutungo Central Cell, Makindye Sabagabo, a Kibanja, measuring 3.77 acres.
Marzuq, in particular, allegedly grabbed property and land comprising FRV 385 Folio 12 Kyadondo, Plot 750 Lubowa Estate, measuring 0.28 acres, which he claimed to have bought at Shs65M from Nakawooya.
Lawyer Nalukoola Comes In
Nakawooya says that when she learnt about the fraudulent activities that Ocitti, Murzuq and others had committed, she hired lawyer Elias Luyimbaazi Nalukoola of Nalukoola Advocates and Solicitors, with instructions to represent her in the matter and to help her recover the property. Specific among the instructions to Nalukoola was that he should return the Shs65M to Murzuq since she (Nakawooya) had never sold her property to him, but he had fraudulently taken it over after forging a Sales Agreement.
However, Nalukoola turned out not to be any different from Ocitti and Murzuq, instead, he ended up being in cahoots with them. Nakawooya says that during the two months Nalukoola worked as her lawyer, he billed her Shs92M, on top of frivolous expenses, most of which were inflated, based on the normal standard rates for the same.
But that’s not all, Nalukoola also refused to return the Shs65M to Murzuq, which Nakawooya had instructed him to return and by doing so, he inadvertently connived with Murzuq to ‘legitimise’ the purported sale of her land in Lubowa whereas that was false.
As if he knew that what he had done by disenfranchising his client would soon backfire, Nalukoola unceremoniously quit the job after two months, claiming that he could no longer represent Nakawooya in the matter, although he didn’t give genuine reasons why.
Nakawooya later hired M/s. Tumusiime, Irumba & Co. Advocates to represent her in the matter, but their constant written notices and letters to Nalukoola to return the said money have landed on deaf ears. Nakawooya says that all efforts to seek justice from the police, courts of law and other concerned authorities have become futile, since Ocitti, Murzuq, and Nalukoola are frustrating her every move.
She has since petitioned the State House Anti-Corruption Taskforce, but has yet to get feedback from there. We have also established that Nakawooya was recently advised to petition President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to seek his intervention in her predicament since Ocitti, Nalukoola and group have proved to be untouchable by the law.
She contends that even efforts by Ms. Phiona Balungi, the Senior Presidential Assistant on Special Duties, who sent a mediation team on the ground to help her proved fruitless after the team she sent was threatened by the lawyers when they wrote to the Secretary-Office of the President, Hajji Yunus Kakande.
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