Museveni tells leaders to protect land
Oct 05, 2009
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has encouraged district leaders to monitor and protect their land against encroachers.
By Raymond Baguma
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has encouraged district leaders to monitor and protect their land against encroachers.
The President was on Friday meeting MPs from Toro region at State House, in Entebbe. He was responding to concerns raised by MPs that government land was being occupied illegally, with connivance of civil servants, who are bribed to give away the land.
Museveni encouraged indigenous people to get title deeds for their land. He thanked the MPs for their support to NRM and pledged Government support to projects targeting value addition, employment and development of infrastructure.
He told MPs that Government would intensify investigations into the disappearance of the Rev. Father Tory Kiiza, a priest from Toro, who disappeared and his whereabouts are still unknown.
The Toro legislators thanked Museveni for the numerous development programmes initiated and implemented in the area such as his support to the Omukama and Toro Kingdom, the completion of Busegu-Fort Portala and Katunguru-Fort Portal roads, which they said have stimulated production and growth in Toro.
The MPs also commended the Government for plans to construct the Fort Portal-Bundibugyo and Fort Portal-Ibanda-Nyakahita roads and the help to farmers in purchasing the tea factories of Mabale and Mpanga.
The delegation also thanked the President for helping Toro dairy farmers get a milk cooler and providing garbage collection trucks to Fort Portal Municipality and Kyenjojo Town Council.
The MPs also commended the Government for the provision of water to Bunyangabu and Kamwenge Town Council and electricity to Kyenjojo Town Council and the elevation of Kyaka county to district status.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has encouraged district leaders to monitor and protect their land against encroachers.
The President was on Friday meeting MPs from Toro region at State House, in Entebbe. He was responding to concerns raised by MPs that government land was being occupied illegally, with connivance of civil servants, who are bribed to give away the land.
Museveni encouraged indigenous people to get title deeds for their land. He thanked the MPs for their support to NRM and pledged Government support to projects targeting value addition, employment and development of infrastructure.
He told MPs that Government would intensify investigations into the disappearance of the Rev. Father Tory Kiiza, a priest from Toro, who disappeared and his whereabouts are still unknown.
The Toro legislators thanked Museveni for the numerous development programmes initiated and implemented in the area such as his support to the Omukama and Toro Kingdom, the completion of Busegu-Fort Portala and Katunguru-Fort Portal roads, which they said have stimulated production and growth in Toro.
The MPs also commended the Government for plans to construct the Fort Portal-Bundibugyo and Fort Portal-Ibanda-Nyakahita roads and the help to farmers in purchasing the tea factories of Mabale and Mpanga.
The delegation also thanked the President for helping Toro dairy farmers get a milk cooler and providing garbage collection trucks to Fort Portal Municipality and Kyenjojo Town Council.
The MPs also commended the Government for the provision of water to Bunyangabu and Kamwenge Town Council and electricity to Kyenjojo Town Council and the elevation of Kyaka county to district status.