Part of the land that is under conflict.
More than 2,000 families are threatened with forcefully eviction from their ancestral land in Kitoba sub-county, Hoima district.
The affected families are from Kitoba, Kihweeza, Nyakafunjo, Kisonde, Kiryangobe, Bukwaara and Rwampanga. One Richard Juuko, a Hoima and Kampala resident, claims ownership of the land measuring approximately 100 hectares, and the residents, some of whom have occupied the same since 1930 are questioning his ownership.
Kiryangobe Parish councillor Gilbert Tugume says that last week Juuko hired some strangers to slash garden crops including maize, cassava and banana plantations belonging to the area residents.
Noah Kiiza, one of the affected residents says that Juuko has deployed a grader on the contested piece of land that is clearing the land destroying their garden crops. He says many of them have nowhere else to go.
Edward Irumba, a resident of Kiburwa west wants the government to come to their rescue and stop Juuko from grabbing their ancestral land.
Sulaiman Tumusiime, a resident of Kihuurwa village says he was beaten from within his garden by the men guarding the suspected land grabber when he tried to inquire about who they are and where they had come from.
Juuko says he secured it from the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom for development. The matter is now being investigated by the Resident District commissioner.
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