Leaders in Bunyoro sub region are appealing to the Lands Ministry to immediately intervene and have all land Titles acquired fraudulently in the region cancelled.
According to the leaders, there are many land titles in the region that were acquired fraudulently hence putting the locals on the verge of being evicted from their ancestral land.
Stephen Birahwa Mukitale, the Buliisa County Member of parliament explains that thousands of people in Buliisa district are at the verge of being forcefully evicted from their land by people who fraudulently acquired titles.
He says the most affected sub counties are Ngwedu, Biiso and Butiaba among others.
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The contested land measuring 485 acres was at the center of a dispute between Edgar Agaba, a businessman in Hoima town and more than 500 families.
To date the evicted people, have never received any help from the government yet they are landless and most are said to have resorted to living with their relatives in various parts of the country.
