Nadduli gone, Luwero Land Grabbing Resumes
Mr. President Yoweri Museveni Vice President Balibasseka Bukenya Prime Ministers Apollo Nsibambi I was excited for once, when your vision led you to realisation that indeed the National Resistance Movement is corrupt to the core. Truly if you have just known it, that is the tip of the iceberg. Your Vice president mentioning, he was going to do something about land grabbing and forged land titles, was of even a great timely relief for s in Luwero. The conflicts that have become so endemic in NRM Uganda; poverty, moral degradation etc, right from 1986 have their origins in a. CORRUPTION b. Land grabbing. But corruption and land grabbing, rampant in NRM circles, is a precursor to yet a more primitive way of capital accumulation, Uganda has ever witnessed. Therefore, our social direction is more mystical than it has ever been. But who is corrupt and who is a land grabber? Why is it that NRM people are so much interested in reckless acquisition of land? This is not the first time I am writing about the vices. I am only confirming fears in case of Luwero, now that LC V Nadduli Abdul who has been fighting the land grabbers, is out of the way. The people of Luwero might be facing a nightmare once again, from your very NRM people. Just a few months ago, I was beyond Butalangu the new seat of Nakaseke district. There, some few people who actually as you will discover, are your former NRM went and fenced off peoples land including as I was informed 60 sq km of Buganda kingdoms lands, Kabakas land. To fence off such a huge chunk of land, yet there is virtually nothing on it is economically illogical and criminally revealing. In this open forum, Ive once openly written, one of your ministers wrote letters I saw with my eyes to people in Luwero, directing them to vacate land, on which they have stayed for decades, some more than 70 80 years. Land was virtually taken over and trees on it cut down to make charcoal by alleged owner for sale in Kampala! If such ministers had rights to that land who processes their land titles on land, which is seemingly not theirs? Among the population, the vice has created animosity, in the region that had never witnessed such i.e. in Nakasongola, Kiboga and Mubende, as far as I can remember. Land grabbers are only people who have unlimited means to violence and some form of state protection. They grab land in the open at times using state resources. In fact, the past Luwero administration used all legal means in regard to what was going on and that was it. Nothing happened to land the grabbers, may be they stopped waiting for another time. And it is now! None of these characters had ever been brought to book or apprehended by the law enforcing forces for the wanton destruction and suffering, they inflicted onto the citizens! Yet we have very clear land laws, but in regard to what I saw in 2001, I doubt if the law is ever followed by NRM untouchables. Ive also mentioned in this forum, a mularo widowed old woman in her 70s her cows were enclosed in, her herdsman taken and imprisoned by LC corroborators with NRM cadres, she was also being forced to vacate land. Neither she nor the herdsman had committed any crime! There is overwhelming evidence of land grabbing now that state finances are hard to come by. People from Luwero want a clear demonstration by the state and all its law enforcing entities to fully investigate what is going on in Luwero triangle. Luwero people should get a catalogue of all land acquired by people outside Luwero. The death of the people during the war, who once owned these pieces of land or lack of children and grand children to oversee these premises and property, is no warrant for grabbing land from old helpless people. Community wise, there is no free land in African societies. In both Acholi and Teso the message has been very clear. No Land grabbing. If the state wants land, there very clear provisions on the law books on how to get land. The same law are enshrined in Uganda constitution. Further still, if the state had embraced modern rural and urban planning methods none of the above situation would have arisen. It is only in a primitive country like ours people are evicted by so called land proprietors who for the past 20 years cant export a kilo of meat. The situation of just dumping the Bakiga in Kibale is reminiscent, on a basis of will to till land and not even setting up basic infrastructures in Kibale is a pointer of lack of social, political and ideological direction. What is meant by industrialisation? One hears how people have acquired hundreds of acres of land in Mubende, Kiboga and Luwero and one wonder if these were empty spaces land. Really, I cant see how some of this land can be utilised effectively either in cattle or crop production. Uganda as of now has no basic infrastructure to talk of in both beef and agro-production industry. Moreover the 80% of Ugandas population is rural and subsist therefore cant be largest consumer of agro-industrial products. Let your good offices come out and show action and save this country from untold suffering. People need protection from these primitive accumulators. Let all people who have suffered under the wrath of these thugs, be helped with police protection and come out to give evidence of their fate. Luwero triangle people have had enough of the 20 years of anguish. Some of us who come from Luwero, have watched and also studied the situation in disgust. That a state can keep quite, when its own people are terrorised by a few well-placed people, is shocking. It is a clear manifestation that there is no law for the lowly of this country. We are requesting you to immediately, openly investigate cases of land grabbing first in Luwero triangle, since 1986, solve the problem once and for all. Luwero land issue plus Kibale problem when they become critical, it will be too late and create an irreversible socio-economic conflict. The situation tends to be moving directly into that direction. We know what can be legally and politically done, however to stop the embarrassment, let the state take the first step to solve the problem. Luwero is just a few kilometres from the government seat. Bwanika , Nakyesawa Luwero. Bwanika ________ http://www.idrconsulting.com --> for your consultancy needs _______________________________________________ Ugandanet mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet % UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). 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