The Deputy commander of operation wealth creation (OWC), Gen. Charles Angina has called upon government to set up a policy which will help peasants to gain out of their land hired to big investors in the agricultural sector. Angina made the remarks at the Imperial Golf View Hotel in Entebbe during a two days’ workshop […]
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said that there are two groups of people against the proposed amendment to the land law. President Museveni who was accompanied by the Deputy Attorney General Mwesigwa Rukutana and the Minister for Housing Chris Baryomunsi made the remarks last evening at Spice FM radio station in Hoima municipality where he […]
While presenting the alternative policy statement for energy and mineral development 2016/2017, the shadow minister for Energy, oil and mineral development Florence Ibi said that many people have been forcefully chased from their land even without any pay due to lack of a compensation policy. She said that with the on going discovery of mineral and […]
Members of parliament on the Parliamentary Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) has recommended the sacking of the Minister of state for Investment, Eng. Dr. Ajedra Gabriel Gadison Aridru, over mismanagement of the Uganda Investment Authority and irregular land allocation to investors which led to loss of billions of money for government. While […]
Mr. Lubowa Charles had hoped and prayed for this moment for a long time. On a cold and wet February morning, in an office at Mengo Chief Magistrates Court, in the west of Kampala, the words coming from the judge caused him to heave a great sigh of relief. Not given to emotional outbursts or […]
Government’s promise to create a conducive business environment for the private sector is coming to reality. It is easing some of the conditions for starting a business. The latest is the finalizing the computerization of the land registration system. Atleast 10 million dollars has been set aside to cater for the process of switching from […]
The residents of Kawempe North are asking government to compensate them for the over four years they have not been utilizing their land. The land in question was acquired by the Kenya-Uganda Pipeline Extension Project. The angry residents were appearing before the parliamentary committee on natural resources to defend their petition on the said project […]
The judiciary says it is stuck with a total of 4000 pending land cases in Kampala recorded in the last one month. This growing number of cases is attributed to the limited number of judges in the land division. The judiciary public relations officer Elias Kisawuzi says the whole land division in Kampala has only […]
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 […]
Many people have been asking what is happening with land tittles at the moment in Uganda. Why the system of getting a land title is so slow? But the land ministry spokesman Denis Obbo says that the ministry is changing the land titles from manual to the computerized system. He says that there is great […]