During a rally held at Kitana Primary School playground in Kigorobya town council in Hoima on Monday, where he was endorsing Moses Aguuda, the NUP candidate for the upcoming by-election for the Hoima LC V Chairperson’s seat, Kyagulanyi highlighted the dire situation in Bunyoro.
In March this year, more than 500 families in Kapapi and Kiganja sub-counties were brutally evicted from their homes. Police and private security guards reportedly torched more than 50 homes and looted an unspecified number of animals, including cows and goats.
The Minister of State for Land, Persis Namuganza has told members of Parliament that Ugandas image was tarnished following the evictions in Lusanja and demolition of the Ndeeba Church.
The intervention comes at the backdrop of complaints, mostly by tenants, filed from different parts of the country with the most recent incident occurring at Bukompe village in Kassanda district where city businessman Abid Alam’s men forcefully destroyed homes and plantations in a bid to evict settlers. The matter has since been taken over by the Statehouse Anti-Corruption Unit.
Mbayo was speaking at the opening of a one-week Induction Retreat for Resident District Commissioners-RDCs and Deputy Resident District Commissioners at the National Leadership Institute-NALI in Kyankwanzi on Wednesday afternoon.
According to Justice Katureebe, the existing laws and policies have gaps in as far as resolving land matters are concerned. This isnt the first time; the chief justice is raising this matter.
The leaders and residents have asked the President to act tough in 2019 and ensure laws are respected. They also appealed to Museveni to stop the Police from escorting landlords to evict tenants.
Regina Babukiika Tronera, a senior legal officer and the centre manager for Justice Center says that a big number of land disputes they receive are as a result of ignorance of land laws.
According to Kirabira, court orders are signed by top security officials in the district to confirm that they are aware of the eviction and provide the necessary security to the bailiffs.
Kazire Investments Limited which also produces Kazire health products is accused of fraudulently acquiring 625 acres, unfair compensation and malicious damage of property.
Paul Kangave, the Savannah Region Police Spokesperson, says Kayemba and the youths descended on the plantations armed with machetes and sticks to the chagrin of the tenants.
Elizabeth Nakafero, 78, says that she sold all her goats to secure police bond at Shillings 500,000 and forked out another Shillings 300,000 to rescue her daughter from detention for alleged criminal trespass on their family land.
Justice Bamugemereire on Friday ordered for the arrest, of a Kenyan national Ambrose Murunga for for threatening to evict more than 100 families from a piece of land in in Luweero district.
Residents from four sub counties in Kibaale district have today petitioned parliament over land eviction that has left 1,300 families displaced. The families were last year evicted from the land bordering Kagombe Forest Reserve by the National Forestry Authority NFA claiming they had encroached on the forest.
The presidents statement followed an appeal by Edirisa Sseddunga, the chairperson of Uganda National War Veterans Association calling for the presidents intervention to stop landlords from forcing tenants to surrender part of their land to them. Sseddunga said that the deals have left people landless.
According to the Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment ACODE, people are increasingly losing trust in courts in regard to land matters. They say the courts are not only slow but also highly compromised by bribery and other forms of influence.
The widows, through an umbrella Solidarity of Widows Association, state that there is an increase in cases of land eviction involving widows, despite provisions of the land act which gives them a right to inherit the matrimonial home.
As a result of the eviction, many children dropped out of school due to their parents inability to pay school fees and provide other school needs. The parents say that their children have been continuously chased from the neighboring UPE schools over their failure to pay functional fees.
Museveni told a campaign rally at Nakawuka parish in Wakiso district this afternoon that with an increase in land wrangles across the country, government will amend the objective of the Land Fund to create resources to buy out land from landowners.
