Uganda, Oct. 4 -- A major row has erupted between residents of Bulindo Village in Kira Municipality and Maj Gen (Rtd) Elly Kayanja over the ownership of 226 hectare (559-acre) prime land in Wakiso District.

Trouble started after the retired UPDF general, according to rival claimants, last month deployed plain-clothed armed men to guard the site as numberless graders flattened part of the contested land.

In an interview last evening, Gen Kayanja said he followed procedure and bought the land from a one Japhes M. B Wagumbulizi who, in a sales agreement this newspaper has seen, identified himself as the "true registered proprietor (as administrator of the estate of the late G. W. Wagumbulizi Biyimbwa)".

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