“The land would have therefore belonged to all through their titular cultural
heads, in Buganda's Case, Bataka Clan Elders! Elsewhere, it's the Elders that
should hold the land in trust for their various peoples! -Ssalongo Ssenoga
No it should belong to city councils with elected councilors.
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika
machafuko"
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ssalongo Ssennoga
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2014 5:08 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: {UAH} Owners will lose rights over mineral-rich land - Museveni -
National - monitor.co.ug
A better question would be: On the issue of land in Afrika, who is the
legitimate owner?
I will limit my take on the rephrased question to the Buganda experience! Land
does not and should not be owned by an/any individual! The Buganda Agreement of
1900 disenfranchised the rightful land owner, the Mutaka Trustee owner was
passed over by interest registered in the names of appointed chiefs, designated
care takers, selected royalty and the rest vested in the British Crown
transferable to a caretaker proxy government harping to foreign interest!
Not even the King is a worthy custodian of the land because while being a
principle chief trustee of all Bataka, his absolute rights are regulated by
norms and mores that only allows him overlordship through appointed/chosen
officials. An example is the Kisolooza Estates, the Mujaguzo Estates, The
Official Estates of the various appointed chiefs and hereditary caretakers!
The land would have therefore belonged to all through their titular cultural
heads, in Buganda's Case, Bataka Clan Elders! Elsewhere, it's the Elders that
should hold the land in trust for their various peoples!
Villager
With regards from ACE-AGE
On Oct 4, 2014, at 9:13, Abudul Semakula <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
Forumists,
I think it is only proper to ask Henry Ford Mirima to give us the official
Bunyoro response to this statement from President M7.
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Gook <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
This fellow is a thief big time! They have sold/stolen all they could lay their
thieving hands on ...but land. And now they are on to it!
Sent from Gook's iPatch!
"What you are we once were, what we are you shall be!"
An inscription on the walls of a Roman catacomb.
On 2 okt 2014, at 23:33, Allan <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
Read " all the land belongs to me"
Sent from my LG G2 android smartphone device
On Oct 2, 2014 5:17 PM, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
wrote:
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Owners-will-lose-rights-over-mineral-rich-land---Museveni/-/688334/2471678/-/f4jchu/-/index.html
Owners will lose rights over mineral-rich land - Museveni - National
President Museveni joins participants during the mineral wealth conference to
take a group photo in Kampala yesterday. PHOTO by STEPHEN WANDERA
In Summary
Amend Act. President says he will call for the amendment of the Mining Act 2001
so that investors should negotiate with government first before negotiating
with landowners because all property belongs to the State.
Kampala. President Museveni has said the government will change the law to
allow intending investors in the mining industry to access private land that
contains minerals without negotiating with the land owners.
President Museveni said this during a conference on mineral wealth in Kampala
yesterday. He said Cabinet would push for the amendment of the Mining Act 2001
so that investors negotiate directly with the government for access to the land
where they intend to carry out mineral extraction.
“The people who have to give you consent are the people who own the minerals,
and that is the government. The other man [landowner] has no consent to give
because the property is not his,” said President Museveni.
Currently, investors seeking to do mining business have to obtain consent of
the private owners of the land where mineral deposits exist.
“The mistake has been to make the investors deal with the landowners, they
should deal with the government; and then the government will deal with the
landowners. You just tell those villagers to get out. You cannot stop the State
from accessing its assets. We shall sort it out, we shall amend the Act. In
fact, the Constitutional Court should say that Act is unconstitutional,” he
added.
His remarks come against a backdrop of stalemates between some landowners and
private investors, with the former refusing to rent out their land for diverse
reasons.
The President also reiterated his 2012 stand on the ban of exportation of iron
ore.
He said Uganda needs the iron ore to support its local steel industry.
He said by exporting iron ore, Uganda has to import steel for construction of
hydroelectricity projects, which reduces employment opportunities for Ugandans
and increases the construction costs on electricity projects.
Mr Museveni also said the government would consider subsidising private
entrepreneurs who invest in electricity generating projects by giving them
money to pay interest on borrowed loans.
He said this is intended to prevent increasing of power tariffs due to the high
costs the investors might have incurred during construction of the power plants.
“If you do not solve the problem of electricity, the railways, no jobs will be
created and very soon you will have the Arab Spring. We cannot afford high
electricity prices, especially for manufacturing. For the discotheques, I do
not mind [them paying higher electricity tariffs],” said Mr Museveni.
The act
Section 42 of the Mining Act provides that before the government issues a
mining licence, the prospective mineral (s) exploration company or individual
should obtain the surface rights over the land by agreeing with the landowner
to granting the investor access to the land.
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Owners will lose rights over mineral-rich land - Museveni - National -
monitor.co.ug <http://monitor.co.ug>
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Owners-will-lose-rights-over-mineral-rich-land---Museveni/-/688334/2471678/-/f4jchu/-/index.html
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