Govt to give out 4,000 land titles to Kabale residents Saturday

Dec 10, 2022

The land of the 4,000 Kabale beneficiaries had never been titled.

Nabakooba also urged the recipients to often go online (the National Land Information System) to check whether they were still the rightful owners.

Umar Kashaka
Journalist @New Vision

KABALE | GOVERNMENT | LAND TITLES

The government was set to give out 4,000 freehold titles to bibanja holders in the Kabale district on Saturday.

Lands Minister Judith Nabakooba said the certificates of customary ownership would be handed over to 4,000 families at Kakomo playgrounds in Kitumba sub-county from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja will preside over the ceremony.

Nabakooba told New Vision on Saturday that her ministry, in partnership with the Global Land Tool Network and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, together with Makerere University's School of Built Environment and the Kabale district local government, has been implementing the project to register customary land.

“The project builds on the pilot project titled 'Securing Land Tenure for Improved Food Security in Select Areas in Uganda', which was funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Kampala, whose titles were handed over by President Yoweri Museveni in 2018 in Kabale,” she said.

The land of the 4,000 Kabale beneficiaries had never been titled.

“I, therefore, invite Members of Parliament from the Kigezi sub-region to join the government and be a witness as the National Resistance Movement government achieves one of its manifesto pledges to Ugandans: registering land for its citizens and protecting it,” urged Nabakooba.

Ankole gets 1,500 titles

In August this year, the government gave out the first batch of 1,500 freehold titles to bibanja holders in the Greater Ankole region at the Mbarara ministry zonal office.

Nabakooba handed over the titles to the beneficiaries, whose land had also never been titled. The districts that received titles included Mbarara City, Ibanda, Rwampara, and Kiruhura.

At the time, the minister appealed to the beneficiaries not to sell their land or offer the titles as security to obtain loans from money lenders because their land would be eventually grabbed.

She said they would continue serving the new landlords to enable them to carry out productive work with their land.

Nabakooba also urged the recipients to often go online (the National Land Information System) to check whether they were still the rightful owners.

She implored local leaders to encourage people to pay the mandatory sh70,000 Uganda Revenue Authority fees, which are required by law and must be paid to complete the titling process.

The registered landowners were given agricultural inputs for the development and, Nabakooba said, should now take this opportunity to make use of the identified agriculture opportunities in their areas for development.

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