Kadaga joins a young girls in dancing during the function in Kibaale.

Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon Rebecca Kadaga has assured the people of Kibaale district that government is going to buy off land from the absentee landlords and redistribute it back to the indigenous people.

Kadaga revealed this  during a thanksgiving ceremony for the Woman MP Kibaale district, Hon Noeline Basemera at the weekend.

“Am aware of the pain the people of Bunyoro are going through over land, so we are going to work first and see that the land fund comes into place so that the people are saved from the issue of absentee land Lords,” she said.

Rt Hon Kadaga said that many of the land owners in Bunyoro don’t stay in Bunyoro and have never even reached there yet they possess titles making people of Bunyoro squatters on their land.

“We have had discussions with the Minister of Finance to see how we can get the land fund and we buy off the land so that the people of Bunyoro can rest and also get security of tenure,” she said.

Rt.Hon Kadaga also advised the people to be entrepreneurs since government had approved the construction of the road going to Kibaale.

“Government has approved your road, so please have something you can be able to sell instead of counting the number of cars that have passed,” she said.

She added that people should also embrace government programs to enhance themselves from poverty. Kadaga said the people of Bunyoro need to take advantage of the various  government programs such as operation wealth creation, youth empowerment that can help them make money and live a better life.

Kasaijja the finance minister.

The Speaker also  requested the Minister of finance Hon Matia Kasaija to create a tree fund to increase the trees grown in Uganda.

“Every where i go i find sucks of charcoal by the road sides which means there many trees that are being cut. Therefore we need the tree fund to save our environment by growing more trees,” she said.

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Kibaale District deputy RDC Emmy Ngabirano wants National Forestry Authority (NFA) to stop all its activities of evicting people out of the forest in which they encroached illegally until the 2016 elections are done.

According to Ngabirano, evicting people from the forest even if they settled there illegally might cause unnecessary unrest, and disgust to the seating government. This comes as National forestry officials in Kibaale- Kagadi have stepped-up efforts to evict all illegal settlers in the Forest reserves to save the country from the increasing harsh climate change conditions resulting from tree cutting which is at its peak in these two districts.

However Environmental Activist Frank Musamuzi the Executive Director of the National Association of Environmental Experts (NAPE) has urged environmental conservation bodies not to mix in politics but rather remain focused on their constitutional mandate.

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Kagadi poseses 6 of the central forest reserves in Kibaale district and the said forest reserves are being depleted by locals who are cutting down the trees for cultivation and timber harvesting

While on a working tour to examine the status of the forests ahead of the world forest day due on Saturday 21st march 2015 Charles Arian told journalists that, the NFA has endeavored to enforce laws for the protection of forests but the effort to fight the encroachers has been hampered by the absence of clearly marked forest boundaries.

The encroachers have now taken advantage and are cutting down the forest trees with impunity, he says.

He suggests that a well-qualified surveyor should be attached to each gazetted forest to undertake boundary marking and opening. At the moment NFA only employs a few surveyors who are based at the NFA headquarters to serve forests across the country.

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