Its amazing to see that many other nationalities have waken up to defend
their ancestral\ "native" land against the NRM land grabbers who use tax
payers money + money collected from the sale of govt properties to unfairly
deprive the peasants of their land.
Baganda have been complaining and peacefully fighting for
the same but almost of politicians and non politians outside Buganda viewed
it as " Baganda wants to chase us out of Buganda" . On this note, we've been
fighting a lonely battle, accusing us of sectarian\ tribalistic etc.
Imagine if a fund is set up to buy off all non Baganda land owners with more
than 1 acre in Buganda ( similar to Buyaga and Bugangazzi). How much will be
the outcry of "Tribalism"?
Imagine the spear threats came from Baganda. PGB and 2 more bridgades would
be deployed into Buganda within 2 months, and many will be charged for
inciting hatrate.
In This world we will never been equal.
History will judge.
J. Ssenyange
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Subject: [Ugnet] Fwd: APG TO SUE GOV'T OVER LAND
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:13:57 -0800
Acholi MPs to take government to court over land
BY JOHN MUTO-ONO PLAJUR
24/11/2006
THE CHAIRMAN of Acholi Parliamentary Group (APG), Hon. John
Livingston
Okellokello, November 24th, 2006 vowed to take government to court over
its
claims that Aswa and Acholi ranches located in Present Pader district
belongs
to government and therefore has no rights to give them out to any
investor.
This matter will go to court should anybody come to claim ownership
of the
land. We shall take them to court. Okellokello is leading members of
APG in a
tour of the sub-region to sensitize the community on land matters,
return of
IDPs and the Juba Peace talks. On Thursday they held a long discussion
with
Acholi Cultural leaders. He clarified
that the then Acholi district gave the two ranches to a parastatal body
called
Uganda Livestock Industries, which is a legal entity on its own.
The parastatals are not government. They are legal entities on
their own,
which are entitled to own properties, can sue or be sued. It is those
who know nothing
about land laws are the ones misadvising government. How callous. He
said the
only land government could claim to own are all the lands whose titles
are with
Uganda Land Commission and any
piece
of land, which had been gazetted as government land on 8th October
1995, when the
Constitution was promulgated.
In a public statement dated 18th November 2006, the Vice-chairman of
APG
Hon. Reagan Okumu said having lost almost everything to 20-year-old
insurgency,
northern Uganda guards the only major resource i.e. Land jealously. He
said
perceived fears and threats to grab Acholi land in particular should
not be misunderstood
to mean the region rejects investors.
It is in this spirit that we invite investors to partner with our
people
for mutual interests and also to prepare to shoulder social
responsibilities to
permanently cement good relationship as social security to investors.
Okumu
said in his statement. Okumu told Daily Monitor the first casualty over
land with
come from Ankole and Kigezi because rich people there now compete over
buying
of hills for building mansions while the land below is for grazing
cattle and
river valleys for matoke plantation.
Huge chunks of land are being bought in Ankole, Kigezi, Buganda
and in Bunyoro by the rich people mainly in government and as a result,
they
are displacing the poor, who, because of poverty are selling off their
land.
This is pushing the poor off their land. The first casualty of and will
come
from Ankole, not in Acholi. Okumu said. He said a Muganda who lives in
Botswana
called Dr. Edmon Lubega sent him a text message encouraging the APG to
stand
their ground on land matters.
Okumu also wondered who displaced the roving Ankole pastoralists
from their
ancestral land in the first place.
During a recent workshop conducted by Dr. Alex Nkabahona who is the
coordinator of MA Peace and conflict Studies program of Makerere
University, in
Gulu land was identified by participants as the most single item which
is
likely o cause more conflict in Uganda. Others identified are
resettlement and Compensation,
reconstruction of destroyed infrastructures, economic imbalances
between north
as South and ending the northern insurgency. The University is planning
to
organize a National reconciliation Conference following their research
findings.
ENDS.
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