Elderly man blames the first family for his disability.
A 70yr old National Resistance Movement (NRM supporter, Ssalongo Moses Galiwango wants Diana Kyaremera, the youngest daughter to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to pay him Shs 2bn or vacate his land she allegedly acquired without making due diligence.
At one point, Ssalongo Moses Galiwango was arrested, imprisoned charged with trespass on his own land and annoying the 1st daughter, Diana before he was acquitted of both charges and court ordered the illegal seller and component to pay costs who later was declared bankrupt throwing the ball at Diana who is occupying five of the ten acres of Galiwango.
“Your (Diana’s) actions have caused stress, psychological torture and mental distress to our clients and we now demand from you to vacate their land trespassed on and /or pay them compensation amounting to Shs 2bn for the same land, loss of income and inconveniences caused and our legal professional costs of Shs20m,” Read part of the letter to Diana Kamuntu from Galiwango’s lawyers of Dickson Kamugisha and Co Advocates dating March 19th, 2020.
A courtesy photo of Diana Kyaremera, 1st daughter accused of land grabbing.
Diana in 2020 after her divorce from Geoffrey Kamuntu formerly applied to NIRA to drop the former husband name “Kamuntu” in preference to be known as Daina Museveni Kyaremera.
Galiwango, is now a wheelchair walking man due to the bad conditions he faced in prison, and his wife Regina Nansubuga relocated to Lugazi, now demand an increment as interest on the Shs 2bn they were demanding in 2020 because of the time lag.
On August 26th, Galiwango wrote to president Museveni informing him that Daina used the name of the First family to settle on the five acres out of the ten which he inherited from his late parents; Eriya Kivvu and Ziriyana Bambajje who purchased and acquired the same from the then landlord, the late Nasanayiri Kiragga in the early 1900s.
Galiwango says in a three-page letter that, he and his wife Nansubuga have attempted to have the matter resolved amicably without going to the media or court through their area LC1 chairman, Tenyigwa Tom, failed to reach out to members of the first family.
“We also contacted the office of the president where madam Kiconco advised us to contact Mr. Karugire Edwin of K & K Advocated, and upon meeting him, we were told to adduce our complaint in writing. Through Dickson Kamugisha and Co Advocates, we wrote our grievances to Mr. Karugire but never received any communications since,” Galiwango wrote.
Later, Galiwango again wrote a reminder to the president on April 11, 2025 saying that despite seeking audience with Diana who has unlawfully encroached on his land since 2003, his efforts were met with security barriers, making it impossible for them (rightful owners) to present their case.
Bamugemereire’s failed attempts.
In an attempt to save his kibanja, Galiwango in 2018 petitioned the Commission of Inquiry on land matters chaired by justice Catherine Bamugemereire, and when Daina was invited to appear before the Commission by the then secretary Dr Singiza K. Dauglas in April 2018 and give proof of ownership of the disputed kibanja, she refused to attend.
“On several occasions, we attempted to have the matter resolved through the area LC1, Tenyigwa Tom but failed too.
This story began in 2003 when Diana former wife to Geoffrey Kamuntu with neither notice nor compensation unlawfully acquired the five acres of a Kibanja belonging to Ssalongo Moses Galiwango and Nansubuga Regina both NRM supports.
Our investigation show that Diana, Kamugisha Anatooli and owners of Akright Housing estate without making due diligence donated to president Museveni an acre of land comprised on Block 383 plot 1567 located in Kabulamuliro, in Wakiso district.
It turned out that, Kamugisha went to sell to Diana another five acres next to the one acre he donated to Museveni and the real owner Ssalongo Moses Galiwango was arrested in 2016. charged and remanded to prison where his health worsened, became lame and later acquitted on March 17, 2018.
In her ruling, the presiding Grade 1 magistrate Hope Bagyenda acquitted Galiwango of charges of criminal trespass and malicious damage to property of Diana. Later, the same magistrate awarded Galiwango costs with interest to be paid by Kamugisha who later cried to court to declare him bankrupt.
The LC I Communication.
Early, in 2019, the LC1 Chairman of Kabulamuliro/Sekiwunga where Diana’s residence and disputed Kibanja is located, Mr Tenyigwa Tom also wrote to the president informing him that Diana continued to extend unlawfully encroachment on the dispute land, and eventually stated constructing a concrete wall in the presence of tight security.
“The purpose of this letter therefore is to request you with your honour your excellency to intervene in this matter closely so that the owners of the land (kibanja) get adequate fair compensation for their land.
They have tried several attempts to reach offices of higher authorities but everything had been in vain,” Tanyigwa’s latter says in part.
NOTE: This publication’s efforts to seek comments from Babaranda, Karugire or Kiconco are still on.
By; Siraje Lubwama,
Senior Investigative Journalist in crime, court, land, human Rights and Political Affairs.
Freelance Journalist, with Alternative Digitalk