We believe this issue is extremely important and some people are ready to expose land grabbers, particularly foreigners, in Uganda.

People have talked about land grabbing in western Uganda but this is nothing compared to what is going on in some parts of eastern Uganda and Buganda at the moment. The people of Busoga (Eastern Uganda) claim that some of the people grabbing their land are real foreigners (they mean people who were not born in Busoga).

Isabirye John, one of the councilors in Jinja Municipality says that the Asians are taking advantage of the poor people in Busoga and ‘squeeze’ them off their land.

“The foreigners ask us to sell to them our land if we refuse, they increase the price they pay us per acre, and if we still refuse, they start blocking the roads to our land (since they have bought most of the land around us),” he says.

Isabirye says that when the people of Busoga refuse to sell their land to foreigners key government officials force them to sell off the land.

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