The BCU Board Chairperson, Nathan Nandala Mafabi
Bugisu Cooperative Union (BCU) has started documenting all the land hosting its primary societies following the increasing cases of land grabbing. The BCU Board Chairperson, Nathan Nandala Mafabi disclosed this on Sunday while addressing hundreds of coffee farmers at Magale Catholic Church during their ongoing three-week zonal meetings.
According to Nandala, most of their primary societies have lost land to their neighbors, some of whom have forged land titles. He explained that they have started documenting their land in partnership with district land boards such that before the start of next year all primary society land is surveyed.
John Musila, the vice chairperson of BCU says that the union comprises of 277 primary societies spread across Bugisu. He, however, says that the primary societies operate on untitled land, which has given chance to land grabbers.
Samuel Mataya, one of the farmers under Magale primary society under BCU has welcomed the decision to secure titles for their land. He says that they are currently in court with some neighbors of their primary society who are reclaiming the land that was donated by their grandfather in the 1980s.
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