By Mulengera Reporters
Wherever they are, some of the former Kampala Modernity Car Bond directors ((Charles Egesa, Rashid Lwanga & Abdul Jaffer) must be poping champagne to celebrate what ironically is supposed to be good news to them.
Big-name NRM cadre Suleiman Lumolo Mafabi, who is also the long-serving ruling party’s Sironko district chairman, is no longer the owner and the controlling authority for one of Kampala’s most enduring car bonds. This came after a group of Indians, including the family that owns Kampala’s Fairway Hotel, kicked him out.
This was after the leasee and the lessors disagreed regarding rental arrears that had been outstanding for years. The Indian owners of the premises demanded Shs800m as the oustanding rent, which Lumolo disputed as being outrageously too high.
Negotiations ensued and Lumolo pleaded with them to accept a part payment of Shs400m which they gladly received but thereafter went ahead to evict him. His pleas that the COVID years (basically 2020 and 2021) be considered and deducted fell on deaf ears.
Instead, the Indians of Fairway entered a new tenancy deal with a group of Pakistani car importers who all along had been sub tenants of Lumolo. That same place years ago had been under occupation by the army stores before repossession by the Indians of Fairway.
Lumolo, who a few years ago controversially kicked out fellow directors in order to monopolize the business to their exclusion, appropriately protested this maltreatment by the Indians and has since threatened Court action to gain re-entry into the premises, which has been his business address in Kampala since the year 2005.
He was first inducted into the car importation business by the late Felix Muloni and fallen Minister Basoga Nsadhu who is also father to former Presidential Candidate Nancy Kalembe.
The Indians of Fairway have made it clear that they won’t backdown and accept to be intimidated, not even by Mr. Lumolo’s deep connections to the powerful people inside the ruling NRM universe. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
