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Uganda: Nation's Properties Abroad Unsafe
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New Vision (Kampala)
24 July 2008
Posted to the web 25 July 2008
Barbara Among
Kampala
Uganda risks losing several of its properties abroad due to lack of land titles, the Auditor General has said.
An audit inspection for the year ending June 2007 revealed that many diplomatic missions with buildings could not trace their land titles.
Titles for the properties owned by the missions in Washington, New York and Paris were not available at the station.
"Without a title deed, the rights of owning the property can be challenged," said John Muwanga, the Auditor General.
"The foreign affairs ministry is also not aware of the whereabouts of the land titles."
Muwanga added that they also failed to trace the titles for Uganda House and two other properties in New York City.
"The management said they (titles) are with the responsible ministries in Kampala," he observed.
Uganda owns a building on 13th Avenue Raymond Poncaire in Paris, which is the chancery. However, the title deed for the building was not found at the embassy.
But ambassador Alfred Nam, who is in charge of properties abroad, said the titles were not missing but "it is just a case of misplacement and record-keeping which is elusive to us."
He noted that the titles were either kept at the chancery or in city offices where the missions are based. For the Paris case, Nam said, the titles might have been misplaced when the chancery shifted.
The original copies of the titles, he explained, were with the Uganda Land Commission.
The Auditor General's team also failed to trace copies of titles for three buildings Uganda owns in Tanzania.
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The Tanzania government exchanged the houses for others Uganda had given the neighbouring country in Kampala.
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