Mother weeps as she narrates how husband, sons sold off matrimonial land

A 62 year old mother of seven yesterday broke down and wept before the commission of inquiry into land matters while narrating how her husband together with her two sons  sold off the matrimonial land without her consent.

Eve Namuyanja Lubega a resident of Makerere Kikoni told the Justice Catherine Bamugemereire-led probe that her husband Ephraim Lubega and two sons; Enock Matovu, an employee with Bank of Uganda and Timothy Muwonge, a doctor at Mulago Hospital left her landless.

"Neither my sons nor my Husband came to inform me that they are going to sell off the matrimonial land. They informed me after they had already sold the land," a tearful Namuyanja told the commission.

She said trouble started when her husband secured a loan from the bank of over Shs 360 million without her consent to finish the construction of their house that had stalled for lack of funds.

Later when he fell sick and could not repay the loan, she called her son Enock Lubega to see how the situation could be managed.

Se said: "Enock told me that you can not manage because those people [of the bank] speak English. How would you talk to them?"

Nonetheless, she said, she did everything to try to rescue their property until her husband and sons decided to sell off the land without her consent.

Ephraim Lubega told the commission that he does not recall what happened in relation to the land.

He said when he fell ill, his sons took over the responsibility of trying to pay back the loan.

Later, he said, he learnt to his shock that they had decided to sell the land.

"I blame the devil," he said adding that he had forgiven his sons

After facing hardships, Lubega now leaves at his mother's place.