Mbale NW&SC in land row

MBALE residents who are demanding compensation for of sh500m on a 20-acre -piece of land

By Nasur Wambedde MBALE residents who are demanding compensation for of sh500m on a 20-acre -piece of land through which a National water and sewerage water pump station (NW&SC) is built have clashed with surveyors. The surveyors were dispatched by NW&SC to draw the boundaries on the land. Residents allege that the colonial government grabbed the disputed land in 1950 from their elders without compansating them. They claim the land was never been surveyed and that NW&SC was surveying it to claim legal ownership and displace them afterwards.