Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government is set to avail 22,000 land titles to Kikuube residents at a reduced cost to combat the escalating land grabbing cases in the district. The initiative to be implemented by the Lands, Housing and Urban Development Ministry and funded by the World Bank …
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Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A joint security operation involving the police and Uganda Peoples Defense Forces-UPDF personnel has netted four people accused of engaging in illegal activities in Bugoma forest reserve in Kikuube district. The suspects are Vereriano Byamukama, Justus Agaba, Robert Muhwezi, and Hillary Byarugaba, all residents of Karwensanga …
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Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kikuube District Security Committee has ordered more than 300 squatters on part of the land Hoima sugar limited leased from Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom in Bugoma forest to vacate with immediate effect. The affected are part of more than 20,000 people who encroached on part of …
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Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Peter Bebwa, the Kikuube district land board chairperson is on the spot for authorizing an unlawful survey and allocation of land. The land in question measures approximately 307 hectares located in three villages of Nyasenge B, Katoma, and Karujumba II in Kyangwali sub-county, Kikuube district. …
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Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Four suspects are in police custody in Masindi district for the alleged murder of 43-year-old Julius Irumba, the LCI Chairperson of Musaijamukuru village in Buhimba sub-county. They are Richard Nyaika 38, a resident of Bweyale in Kiryandongo, Stephen Aliganyira 32, a resident of Bucunga village …
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Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Amlan Tumusiime, the Kikuube Resident District Commissioner has petitioned Sam Mayanja, the State Minister for Lands, about the issuance of fraudulently acquired land titles. In his petition dated October 24, 2022, the RDC contends that the current situation of land eviction threats in the district …
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Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Stephen Aseera, the Buhaguzi East Member of Parliament in Kikuube district is on the spot for alleged land grabbing. The MP is accused together with Charles Ochaki Nyabongo and Job Muhumuza, of illegally processing a joint title for 127 hectares of land covering three villages …
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Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 1,000 families from six villages in Kikuube district, have petitioned Judith Nabakoba, the Minister for Lands, Housing and Urban Development to intervene and revoke three different land titles that have been fraudulently acquired. The affected residents are from the villages of Ndongo, Kisoba, …
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Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | People affected by the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) in Kikuube district have tasked members of the opposition in Parliament to compel the government and oil companies to immediately compensate them for their land which was taken to facilitate the smooth running of the …
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Kikuube, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 1,500 families from six villages in Kikuube district are facing forceful eviction from their ancestral land. The affected families are located in Ndongo, Kisoba, Kahara, Nyanseke, Nyakabaale, and Hohwa villages, in Kaseeta parish, Kabwoya lower sub-county. The land in question measures 501 hectares …
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