KIRUHURA – Four hundred seventeen freehold land titles processed by the government of Uganda under the Systematic Lands Adjudication and Certification SLAAC through the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development with support from the World Bank have been delivered to right beneficiaries in Kanyaryeru and Sanga in Nyabushozi Kiruhura district.
The handing over ceremony was presided over by the Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Ms Judith Nalule Nabakooba at Kanyaryeru sub county and Sanga town council in Nyabushozi county Kiruhura district.
The well attended function was witnessed by jubilating beneficiaries who praised president Museveni for the offer, the district chairperson Kiruhura Mr Mukago Rutetebya, the representative of the Chief Administrative Officer Kiruhura district Jameson Kakuru among other local leaders.
Others were Member of Parliament Nyabushozi county Hon Wilson Kajwengye including the Kiruhura district Woman Member of Parliament Hon Jovanice Rwenduuru Twonobusingye.
Hon Nabakooza explained that the Systematic Land Adjudication and Certification SLAAC program is operating in the districts of Kiruhura, Ibanda, Rwampara and Mbarara and Oyam although the time of implementation is running out because of technicalities.
She explained that the project has money to process the land titles for the people in order to get land tenure security to use the land productively by engaging in commercial agriculture and protect the land from land grabbers and fragmentation.
Nabakooza requested the district leadership of Kiruhura including land board and area land committees to ensure all government land is surveyed and titled by using local district government technical teams.
The chairperson Kiruhura district Mukago Rutetebya requested the ministry that had been processing the community land titles to plan for improvement on urban roads supported with street lighting.
The Member of Parliament Nyabushozi county Kiruhura district Hon Wilson Kajwengye revealed that the second completed processed freehold land titles batch by the government have been delivered to beneficiaries in sub counties of Kanyaryeru, Sanga and Akayanja.
Kajwengye cautioned the beneficiaries to guard jealously their land titles and refrain from handing over the land titles to money lenders KAFUNA people neither entrust them to their friends for safe custody for being the only assurance of land ownership.
The Kiruhura district Woman Member of Parliament Hon Jovanice Rwenduuru Twonobusingye requested the government and the president to come and clarify on challenge where some people land was surveyed and yet have not received their land titles.
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