Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Five government schools in Mukono municipality are at risk because of the failure of the authorities to secure their land titles. They are St. Peters, Nakagere Umea, Kiwanga Umea, Lweza, and Ngandu community primary schools. The Mukono municipal inspector of schools, Faridah Nassolo, says that …
Read More »Masaka summons former leaders over missing land titles
Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Masaka City Stakeholders Committee has resolved to summon the former Masaka Municipal Council leaders to help trace the whereabouts of several missing properties and land titles. The City Stakeholders Committee resolved this after realizing that several land titles including those of key public properties went missing …
Read More »Buganda kingdom queries issuance of land titles under the lake
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Buganda kingdom has questioned ways through which a one Hamis Kiggundu acquired land titles under Lake Victoria. Speaking to journalists at Bulange Mengo, the kingdom spokesperson Noah Kiyimba expressed dismay at how Hamis Kiggundu was able to acquire land titles in the lake, something unacceptable under …
Read More »Fort Portal city struggling to operate without land board
Fort Portal, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fort Portal city is unable to process land titles and resolve other land-related matters due to the absence of a land board. Since gaining city status two years ago, Fort Portal has been operating without a land board. The lack of a land board …
Read More »Sembabule district suspends land title issuance over rampant disputes
Sembabule, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sembabule district local government has halted the issuance of land titles in a move to address the widespread land disputes in the area. The decision was based on the district production sectoral committee report, which highlighted the widespread land disputes as one of the factors …
Read More »Minister orders cancellation of six freehold land titles in Luwero over fraud
Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State Minister for Lands, Sam Mayanja has ordered the cancellation of six freehold land titles that were fraudulently created on seven square miles belonging to the family of the late Cranmer Kaaya. In 1969, the late Kaaya, a prominent businessman acquired a 49-year lease on …
Read More »Church losing chunks of donated land due to lack of proper documentation
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kasana-Luweero Catholic diocese is losing chunks of land donated by well-wishers due to lack of proper documentation, the Bishop Rt. Rev. Paul Ssemogerere has revealed. According to Bishop Ssemogerere, many people have been donating land to the church over the years, which has enabled it …
Read More »Minister wants district land boards probed for fuelling land grabbing in Bunyoro
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of State for Lands, Mario Obiga Kania wants all the district land boards in the Bunyoro sub-region probed for alleged corruption. The minister who is currently in Bunyoro on a working visit says that he has established that several officials in the various land …
Read More »HFB Buganda Land Board inks deal to support bibanja owners
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Housing Finance Bank has strengthened its partnership with Buganda Land Board, (BLB), and this time easing the process for Bibanja/kibanja owners to acquire lease-hold certificates of title. The kingdom, in a bid to speed up the kyapa processing time has launched a campaign called the …
Read More »Government processing Karusandara land titles- Baryomunsi
Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government is in the final stages of processing land titles to residents of Karusandara Sub County, Kasese District, according to the State Minister for Housing Chris Baryomunsi. Karusandara sub-county was created in 1989. It is mainly occupied by members of the Basongora communities from …
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