The initiative, funded by the World Bank under the Systematic Land Adjudication and Certification (SLAAC) program, targets sub-counties including Kizirafumbi, Bugambe, Buhimba, Kyangwali, Kabwoya, and Kikuube Town Council.
Ever since the oil activities started in the region, Bunyoro has witnessed several evictions with thousands of families forcefully displaced from their ancestral land.
The tenants inherited the pieces of land from their grandfathers and others from their fathers since the 1920s. The land belonged to Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi and was managed by the Nkuluze Estate Office, the manager of his estate.
Hajji Yunus Kakande, the Permanent Secretary in the Office of the President, expressed concern over some RDCs and their deputies being implicated in aiding land grabbing and siding with land grabbers, emphasizing the need to condemn such actions.
Peter Banura, the Kikuube LCV Chairperson in an interview with URN explains that says soon a ministry of lands team will be in the district to sensitise leaders and residents on how the issuance of the titles will be conducted.
Jackson Bahemuka, a resident of Musajamukuru B village wants the MP investigated for fraudulently acquiring a title on their ancestral land without their consent, saying that they are living in fear of eviction from their homes.
Addressing the implementers of the Parish Development Model-PDM implementers in Buliisa on Tuesday afternoon, Nabbanja revealed that her office has recieved sufficient evidence implicating the land board members for masterminding massive land grabbing through the issuance of land titles to the rich at the expense of the vulnerable community members.
Councilors had convened to pass a supplementary budget of 1.3 Billion Shillings, approve the revenue enhancement plan, and discuss committee reports for the second quarter for the financial year 2021/22.
Anatori Giriyitma 93, a resident of Kachungiro village in Kinogozi parish Buhimba sub-county Kikuube district claims that he acquired the contested land measuring 250 hectares, where has been staying with his family in the 1940s.
Gertrude Asiimwe, another resident says that many fraudulently acquired titles have emerged in their area, adding that government should come up with measures to eliminate fake titles.
In the 2021 Presidential elections, Museveni popularity in the Nakasongola district declined to 65% from 84.46 % which he scored in the 2016 elections. The NUP Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu made inroads and obtained 33% of the total votes cast in the district.
The Presidential Affairs committee of Parliament is investigation circumstances under which some individuals secured 12 land titles in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in Kikuube district.
The butchers headed by their chairperson Robert Makumbi are accusing Bernard Iga of trespassing on the land to construct the sty next to the place where meat slaughtered for public consumption comes from.
Julius Hakiza, the Albertine Region Police spokesperson, says when Nyabongo arrived on the piece of land, which is at the center of a family dispute, eight men emerged from the bush and surrounded him.
According to Bobi Wine, a number of land grabbers known to president Museveni have invaded Bunyoro sub region carrying out brutal evictions of residents but nothing is done to stop them. The legislator was speaking at the campaign rally organized by Asinasi Kamanda Nyakato, the Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party candidate for the Hoima woman parliamentary by-elections at Hoima Boma grounds on Monday evening.
The Sub county chief, Charles Lwanyaga, says Gonza has started dumping construction materials such as sand and bricks on kingdom land without their consent.
He says they in effect returned the 1900 colonial agreement which catered for the the interest of the big land owners at the expense of small property owners .
