Former Kira Municipality Mayor Mamerito Mugerwa told the Commission that those who were in charge of the land acquisition process were not transparent in their dealings with bonafide land owners in Namboole area. He said officials from Uganda Land Commission and the Ministry of Land wanted residents to surrender their land titles without compensation.
Out of the 14.6billion shillings required to clear debts for suppliers, only 141 million shillings has been allocated in the next financial year budget.
According to the Kabarole District Police Commander - DPC, Jamal Kanyesigye, they blocked the demonstration because they hadn’t been informed about it and deemed it illegal.
Florence Lamunu Komakech, one of the leaders of the foot pilgrims says Gena was discontinued after suffering epileptic seizures after covering about 26 Kilometers of the 332-kilometre journey while George Obwona was discontinued after engaging in dry fasting without food or water for many days.
The new Uganda Land Commission chairperson Beatrice Byenkya Nyakaisiki has termed Government as a bad land owner who has failed to survey and title its land.
More than 940 employees of Kyambogo University are to have their salaries deducted this month as the institution implements its Medical Insurance scheme.
The proposal is contained in the report of the committee which has been scrutinizing the payment of 41 billion Shillings to 10 Ugandan companies. The committee was set up after a government request for parliamentary approval to clear a debt of 151 billion Shillings owed to Ugandan traders and companies by the South Sudan government.
Christopher Ayebare a resident of Bushenyi says that the failure by the authorities to collect garbage is a clear indication that they are not serious. He says that the authorities always come up and demand for revenue but are slow when it comes to service delivery.
The property manager Knight Frank Uganda said in a short statement this morning that the move is part of the initiative to redevelop the mall, and improve tenant mix and customers shopping experience as seen with the recent entry of Shoprite Supermarket as the anchor tenant of The Village Mall.
Elders, mainly from Ayivu, Arua Ghetto youths and the Woman MP Arua Maureen Osoru have called for a new relationship with the presidency saying that majority of the population in Arua was against acts of hooliganism that transpired at the time.
