The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) has protested the grabbing of Lubigi wetland by a group of business people on ground that NEMA gave part of the wet land to the National water and sewerage corporation.

The Executive Director NEMA Aryamanya Mugisha told Journalists in Gulu that those encroached part of Lubigi wetland   are holding guns.

He said that NEMA will use police to evict those taking over this wet land in western part of Kampala.

Aryamanya said that currently the public is destroying the wetlands because government failure to implement the  laws related to environment protection.

He defended  the move by NEMA of giving part of lubigi wetland to the National water and sewerage corporation  and he said that this was done to improve on the sanitation of Kampala because the ground will be used to  deposit sewage.

The swamp forms a belt in the northern and western parts of Kampala where most of the waste water from Bwaise and Nateete drains.