Minister Amongi in fresh trouble as Ugandan in UK accuses her of grabbing her land
The Minister for Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Betty Amongi’s troubles are far from over.
This follows fresh accusations from a Uganda woman in United Kingdom, Lillian Akullu, that the minister grabbed 4 acres of land in Lira belonging to her and family.
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Akullu for that matter has dragged Amongi to Lira High Court to stop her from occupying or using the said land until the matter is resolved. According to Akullu, the minister has since built residential premises on her land, which she acquired in 1991.
Akullu claims that she contacted Lira District Lands office and other authorities but they could not help as the minister has a lot of influence. She claims that the minister has been persuading her to cash in on the land.
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However, Amongi refuted the reports, stating that she had bought the land lawfully from former Housing Minister Sam Engola and another brother to Akullu.
“Go and consult their brothers who sold to me, go and consult Engola Sam and a brother called Okaka,”Amongi said.
Amongi has been in the news for the previous weeks following her appearance in the Land Commission of Inquiry where she was grilled for allegedly using her influence to grab land originally belonging to Indians.
Amongi was dragged to the commission by Tosh Hanibal Patel, the grandson of Uganda’s first speaker of parliament Hanibal Patel for using her position to forge a parallel land title on Plot 29, Acacia Avenue, a property owned by the Patel family on top of intimidation and threatening violence.
According to Patel,his family acquired the property in 1968 and when the then president Idi Amin expelled Asians, government took over the property under the Asian property custodians board and his family repossessed it in 1992 but in December2017 they received a letter that the property had been allocated to Amobet investments limited, a company owned by the minister.
