Kampala. The son of former Ugandan president Idi Amin has written to President Museveni over family property allegedly confiscated by government.
Mr Hussein Juruga Lumumba said in an open letter to the President that the army continues to occupy some of their family property without pay.
“I have been threatened with death by UPDF officers who have twice ordered guards to shoot me as I visited the premises to discuss with the tenants,” he says.
Mr Lumumba said 10 years ago President Museveni promised Amin’s family that all the properties would be returned to them after the former Ugandan leader died in Saudi Arabia. The controversial properties include; two houses on plot 34 and 35 Chwa Road, Mbuya in Kampala and land on plot 33 on the same road. Other properties, Mr Lumumba said, are a farm in Arua District and two houses near Arua Airstrip.
He says all these properties are titled in the name of his late father. “He acquired some of these houses before he became president,” Mr Lumumba says adding that he has written thrice to the president with no response. “That’s why I have decided to write an open letter to him,” he says.
Mr Jaffar Amin, Mr Lumumba’s brother said all the family property were confiscated in 1979 and have never been returned.
Mr Nyanje is The Citizen Political and Production Editor: pnyanje@tz.nationmedia.com
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