The residents of Kawempe North are asking government to compensate them for the over four years they have not been utilizing their land.

The land in question was acquired by the Kenya-Uganda Pipeline Extension Project.

The angry residents were appearing before the parliamentary committee on natural resources to defend their petition on the said project that they presented to parliament through the area MP Latif Sebagala last year.

The petitioners say that in 2009 the land was gazzeted and valued by Geo Maps Uganda which promised that they would be compensated within five months but that is yet to happen.

The proposed Kenya-Uganda oil pipeline is to extend the pipeline from Eldoret through Malaba, Jinja to Kampala giving it a total length of 320km.

The project was launched in 2007 and was meant to start in 2008 with the compensation of land owners.