Bunyoro Kingdom lacks land titles
Jan 15, 2006
BUNYORO Kingdom does not have land titles, the commission of inquiry into the region’s issues has heard.
By Carol Natukunda
BUNYORO Kingdom does not have land titles, the commission of inquiry into the region’s issues has heard.
The acting commissioner for land registration, Edward Karibwende, told the probe commission in Kampala on Friday that ‘progressive’ Banyoro had not registered the kingdom during the 1966 re-centralisation process.
“When all kingdoms and their properties were required to re-centralise in the Uganda Land commission, some progressive Banyoro said let us register in the names of the district, and not the kingdom. So that is why the royal family does not have any land title,†he said.
“I would recommend that the Hoima Land Board should identify all the king’s property and that of the entire kingdom. The area CAO (chief administrative officer) should commit the bill of acquiring a title,†he added.
The kingdom comprises Masindi, Hoima and Kibaale districts.
Karibwende was testifying before the probe at the Ministry of Works Training Institute in Kyambogo, Kampala.
He also said the region had never had a land registrar’s office.
“In Bunyoro, all the former lost counties, Buyaga and Bugangaizi, under Mailo land, were registered in Fort portal. There is a consistent lack of a registrar in the region,†he said.
President Yoweri Museveni instituted the inquiry in September 2005, to look into the alleged land and intertribal issues in Bunyoro.
BUNYORO Kingdom does not have land titles, the commission of inquiry into the region’s issues has heard.
The acting commissioner for land registration, Edward Karibwende, told the probe commission in Kampala on Friday that ‘progressive’ Banyoro had not registered the kingdom during the 1966 re-centralisation process.
“When all kingdoms and their properties were required to re-centralise in the Uganda Land commission, some progressive Banyoro said let us register in the names of the district, and not the kingdom. So that is why the royal family does not have any land title,†he said.
“I would recommend that the Hoima Land Board should identify all the king’s property and that of the entire kingdom. The area CAO (chief administrative officer) should commit the bill of acquiring a title,†he added.
The kingdom comprises Masindi, Hoima and Kibaale districts.
Karibwende was testifying before the probe at the Ministry of Works Training Institute in Kyambogo, Kampala.
He also said the region had never had a land registrar’s office.
“In Bunyoro, all the former lost counties, Buyaga and Bugangaizi, under Mailo land, were registered in Fort portal. There is a consistent lack of a registrar in the region,†he said.
President Yoweri Museveni instituted the inquiry in September 2005, to look into the alleged land and intertribal issues in Bunyoro.