Land evictions; Tenants to acquire certificates of Occupancy

By; Ben Musanje

13^th Dec 2018

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development has introduced plans that will enable tenants acquire registerable interests as a long term solution to the current illegal evictions.

Addressing the media in Kampala, the Lands Minister Betty Amongi said the plan is one of the interventions within the National Land Policy where Government committed itself to resolve the historical land injustices that have often created multiple rights on the same piece of mailo land.

According to Amongi, government through the Uganda Land Fund that is under Lands Ministry is compensating all absentee landlords and inviting bonafide occupants or bibanja owners to acquire certificates of occupancy for the land they occupy to avoid evictions.

However, Amongi says Bibanja holders who acquired registrable interests in the land described as Block 260 plot 383 measuring 41.175 hectares and plot 385 measuring 201.6 hectares covering the villages of Kirema, Kibubu and Kitoto in Semuto Sub county, Nakaseke district will be the first to benefit from this initiative on Saturday 15^th December.

She adds that President Museveni will be handing over their 300 mailo land titles after government bought the said land at 2.5bnsh from an absentee landlord only identified as Namunkekeera.