Ex-Mulago employee fights for staff house

A former employee of Mulago national referral hospital, Clemensia Nakabito, is trying to own property tented by the health facility.

The two-storey house is situated on 0.1012 hectares in Mulago, Kibuga area, block 29; plot 483. Since 1972, the administration of Mulago hospital has rented it for its senior staff. In the past, several hospital employees have occupied the house.

The latest occupant is Jane Tiazaru. Documents obtained by The Observer show the estate belongs to the late Sabani Mukasa and Abdul Hakim Magala, the administrator.

According to a land search conducted on February 5, 2021, Clemensia, a former employee of Mulago, claimed the land was leased to the late Serwano Bulungi Kigozi for 49 years, registered on July 13, 1966. The deceased was a neighbor. The late Kigozi’s family, however, distanced itself from the contested land.

According to Prince Joseph Simbwa, the manager of Nsamba and Company Advocates, the administrator knows Mulago as its tenant.

“We don’t know Nakabito, we know Mulago hospital, and we don’t intend to drag her to court. It is Mulago to talk to its former staff unless there are people behind her,” he said.

Narrating her ordeal, Jane Taizairu 2022, Dr Nakabito, through her lawyers, directed her to vacate the house. Nakabito claims the house belongs to her.

“The hospital allocated me this house in 2008, and I found Dr Nakabito staying on the second floor till she retired. When she retired, she didn’t vacate the house until today. Her son Albert Majwala stayed here for seven years till he built his house. At that time he was working at Case clinic,” Taizairu said.

Dr Nakabito later brought in other relatives, including her son-in-law and her children. They have been occupying the house, which the hospital pays rent for.

The teary nurse said the administration of Mulago hospital has been slow to act against its former employee.

“I met the director of the hospital, Dr Rosemary Byanyima, about that matter, and she promised to resolve all discrepancies. She told me that the hospital will first trace all of the senior nurses and doctors who lived in that particular facility, as well as other information, and then make an informed decision,” she said.

The Observer learned that Nakabito’s daughter Sophie Nazire and her husband David Kakooza stay in the boy’s quarter.

The house has over the years been occupied by doctors only identified as Tusubira, Kiwumulo Apuuli, Mirembe, Luswata, Nsubuga, Kalegaya, and Nakabito. Others who lived in the godown include Christine, Alice Watenga, Sarah Munywa, and Jane Tiazaru.

Dr Nakabito advised this reporter to discard the story.

“Please, I am advising you; to leave that story because publishing it will not help resolve the issue. There is someone supposed to address that issue, not you,” she said.

She declined to delve into the details of how she put a caveat on the land title of the facility, which was rented for her as a senior staff.

Dr Rosemary Byanyima, the executive director of Mulago hospital, said she knows about that issue tabled by her staff and directed this reporter to speak to David Niwamanya for more information. Niwamanya has not picked up or returned our calls.

He promised to call back this reporter to respond to the questions sent to his WhatsApp, but didn’t. The Observer has also learned that Dr. Byanyima has given Nakabito one month to vacate the house.

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