COSASE Report contradicts the DAPCB Report
It is a hidden truth that the Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE), is helping the committee members to get rich. The committee investigates big government enterprises and never bring out the truth.
The Drone Media has established that over 10,000 land titles of the Departed Asians were fraudulently acquired, but when these facts reached COSASE, the story changed. A source at the Departed Asians Property Custodian Board (DAPCB), has revealed that various individuals in Uganda including Kampala businessman Sudhir Ruparelia, fraudulently acquired the properties.
In fact, the COSASE Report contradicts with the Departed Asians Property Custodian Board (DAPCB) Report. What happened was that the members of COSASE pocketed money from the suspects and delayed this report only to release it at the time they were leaving the parliament.
Apparently, the Kampala businessman Sudhir Ruparelia has been confirmed as the true and legitimate owner of Plot 24 Kampala Road after a parliamentary committee resolution. Imagine! The DAPCB Report has a different version and the COSASE members who are paid to investigate they adamantly do the opposite.
The Departed Asians Properties Custodian Board unveiled a list of close to tens of thousands of Asian properties that are said to have been illegally acquired by individuals across the country.
The Secretary to the Board, George William Bizibu said the full list was availed to the Parliamentary select committee of Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprise (COSASE) for investigations on the alleged illegal acquisition of the departed Asians’ properties.
The sub-committee instituted by the Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authority, and State Enterprises (COSASE) to investigate has reportedly confirmed that the said Plot 24 under probe belongs to Sudhir after a thorough investigation of the illegalities involving the activities run by the Departed Asians Properties Custodian Board (DACPB).
The sub-committee under the COSASE leadership of the Makindye East Member of Parliament Ibrahim Kasozi investigated the illegalities and irregularities at DAPCB and discovered that DAPCB was claiming ownership of the said plot and yet that same Plot 24 on Kampala Road was resolved by a court decision between Meera Investments Ltd and DAPCB and can’t be subjected to an inquiry.
The Departed Asians Properties Custodian Board (DAPCB) had in July 2019 told the probe sub-committee chaired by Kasozi that tycoon Sudhir’s property was never reposed by the original proprietors before selling it to him.
But, in its report to Parliament that is set to be presented and adopted today, the probe sub-committee says Sudhir is the rightful owner of the property having defeated DAPCB in court in 2012.
Sudhir’s case is one of the 13 cases the DAPCB has lost out of the 124 that were listed as the total number of cases involving the entity that controls the properties left behind by Asians who were expelled by President Idi Amin in 1972. The DAPCB has so far won 10 cases whereas 99 cases remain unconcluded.
A source at DAPCB told The Drone Media that Makerere University’s Main building fire was planned by the people who fraudulently acquired land titles of the DAPCB; they thought the titles were still in that building, yet they had been removed to a secluded place. Much as it was investigated, the report lacked substance.