1,500 Nakasongola households wait in vain for free land titles

At minimum 1,500 households in Nakasongola District are trapped right after a authorities project to challenge them with totally free land titles failed to consider off 3 a long time immediately after it was released.

In 2019, the authorities through the Uganda Land Fee (ULC) embarked on the titles acquisition procedure for picked homes living on land of absentee landlords.

The training, which was meant to be concluded in 2020, arrived after the govt compensated the absentee landlords.

Even so, people occupying the approximated 10.8 square miles reportedly continue on to experience unlawful evictions, destruction of residence and injustices in land ownership.

The affected communities reside in Kalungi, Kalongo, and Lwampanga sub-counties, between other places.

Mr Noah Mutebi Wanzala, the Nakasongola County MP, said a number of petitions to the Lands minister, Ms Judith Nabakooba, President Museveni, and Parliament on the make a difference have unsuccessful to yield outcomes.

“We convened neighborhood conferences and witnessed the surveying course of action for the respective land that was surveyed in 2019. We are nevertheless to see the land titles,” Mr Mutebi said on Wednesday.

He mentioned govt officers, who had been spearheading the job, are silent, an indicator that people might not get the titles any time shortly.

In a March 17 letter dealt with to President Museveni, Mr Mutebi mentioned a staff from the Lands ministry mapped and surveyed land in Mayirikiti, Kigejjo, Lwampanga, Junda and Kibanga   villages in 2019 coordinated by the ULC leading officers.

The district chairperson, Mr Sam Kigula claimed extra than 80 per cent of residents in Nakasongola are squatters on land owned by absentee landlords.

“When we gained the Uganda Land Commission bosses in 2019, we thought that the President had ultimately responded to the cries of the persons of Nakasongola. We require a rapid observe up on this make a difference,” he reported.

Nonetheless, Ms Nabakooba claimed the task is continue to on program although it has been delayed owing to some technical problems.

“Nakasongola is among the prioritised districts that will reward from the Land Fund to offset the land possession problems, I have visited the district on the invitation of the leaders and enjoy the land worries. The course of action to roll out the Land Fund that the governing administration promised will be fulfilled,” the minister said without the need of detailing when the job will start.

Mr Arnold Ssemaganda, a resident of Kigejjo Parish in Kalungi, mentioned he availed all the demanded particulars to authorities surveyors anticipating to get the land titles, but his hopes have light.

A identical job, which was concentrating on 2,000 sitting tenants in the neigbouring Kayunga District, also unsuccessful to get off due to the fact 2017.  Area leaders a short while ago claimed they experienced lost hope thanks to the delays in implementation of the venture. Nakasongola leaders say land related conflicts account for much more than 80 percent of the conditions registered at the law enforcement and the other sister administration offices on a everyday basis. It is on this basis that the governing administration is pushing for land reforms which they say are aimed at curing rampant evictions in the nation. Recently, Ms Nabakooba mentioned the govt wanted pretty much Shs47.2 trillion to spend off all landlords across the place so that they can depart sitting tenants to settle peacefully. The minister said ULC at the moment requirements at the very least Shs150b to settle arrears of a section of landlords who have currently negotiated with the government to surrender their land to the sitting down tenants.