The Kampala city mayor, Hajji Nassa Ssebagala is locked in a fierce war with city investor Ham Kag who is claiming two cemeteries sold to him by the city council to set up a shopping mall and public offices.

The mayor disputes this claim mentioning that the city council declined the proposal put forward by Ham Kag and company. He further challenges the investor to present documented evidence showing that the council actually sold the cemeteries to him.

The biggest cemetery under dispute in front of the Internal affairs ministry is of historical importance to the council considering that its a resting place for early British missionaries, colonial officials, Asians, homeless and unidentified Ugandans.

The other located along the Lugogo by-pass, the City Council claims, it belonged to an Asian who fled the Idd Amin rein of terror in the 1970s but later returned to reclaim it in the 1990s. It was dutifully returned to its rightful owner and does not in any way belong to the city council.

The company was also supposed to carry out an Environmental Impact Assessment study and pay a funeral service company to relocate the remains.“We have lost huge sums of money to process this land to the end. KCC committed itself with us and we bought land, paid off tenants and carried out Environment Impact Assessment, all this has cost us about Shs1.2 billion,” Ham- Kag Ltd’s lawyers of Nyanzi, Kiboneka and Mbabazi Advocates said. The lawyers have lodged a case at Kampala High Court (Land Division).