{"id":11652,"date":"2024-03-10T07:04:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T07:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=11652"},"modified":"2024-03-10T07:04:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T07:04:07","slug":"government-to-register-church-of-uganda-land-across-the-country-minister-nabakooba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/government-to-register-church-of-uganda-land-across-the-country-minister-nabakooba\/","title":{"rendered":"Government To Register Church Of Uganda Land Across The Country- Minister Nabakooba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Our Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Government through the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development (MLHUD) is set to  register and ssue land titles and customary certificates of ownership on land belonging to the Church of Uganda (COU).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the new development, the church is tasked to create a team that will work with a task force team from the ministry to identify all the land without titles from different dioceses across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have briefed my permanent secretary and the technical team that I think this is the time to help churches register their land. We will request you one thing to have your trustees\u2019 regularly updated and make annual returns for those trustees,\u201d Lands Minister Judith Nabakooba stated<\/p>\n\n\n\n

.Nabakooba \u00a0was addressing a three-day retreat of 40 bishops from the 39 dioceses that make up the COU held at Lweza Training and Conference Centre in Wakiso District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cArchbishop I would request you to give me a team from your side and I will also get a technical team to help work with your people to see how they can have the land registered,\u201d Nabakooba said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also asked the house of bishops to make use of the zonal land officers in their regions to handle their land matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEach district has a district staff surveyor and the ministry zonal offices have senior staff surveyor and principal staff surveyor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The minister emphasized the issue of trustees and asked the church to ensure that at least land is under the name of the registered trustee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have seen instances where people register land in their names as individuals and it is church land. The people who do this might have clean intentions but when they are no more, their family can claim that property,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While making reference  to the  Ndeeba Anglican church land which was demolished by goons following a dispute, Nabakooba stayed thus : \u201cIt was in good faith but the family started making other allegations yet the church has been there for years. We believe if the land is registered with a trustee, it can be protected for generations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other guidelines that the minister issued is for churches to register all their bonafide and lawful occupants to enable them deal with the rampant land grabbing and fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRegister bibanja holders to avoid other squatters from flooding the land because without a register, a loophole is created for squatters to also settle on the land and claim they have been there for 30 years. If such claims are put across, it is very difficult to defend them,\u201d Nabakooba told the bishops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lands minister re-echoed the message of making idle land productive and defining their boundaries to resolve conflicts with the community and their neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThose of you having huge chunks of land, engage in production and commercial agriculture. If you do not have the capacity to do so, you can engage another person in the form of an investor but with clear terms of engagement so that the land is used for production.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rev. Dr Stephen Samuel Kaziimba Mugalu, the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, said the Anglican Church has been a victim of land grabbers because some of the land is not having titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome of those who generously donated land did it in good spirit without titles or agreements,\u201d Archbishop Mugalu said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He reminded the government of the pledge made four years ago to have the issue of Ndeeba church resolved and have their church rebuilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are so happy that the government intervened on the Ndeeba issue but it is yet to fulfill the pledge made by the president to ensure that the so called claimants are compensated and they work on the logistics to have our church rebuilt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor: msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Our Reporter The Government through the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development (MLHUD) is set to  register and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/na.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11721,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/church-of-uganda-grateful-for-land-minister-nabakoobas-intervention-in-streamlining-their-land-issues\/","url_meta":{"origin":11652,"position":0},"title":"Church of Uganda grateful for Land Minister Nabakooba’s intervention in streamlining their land issues","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"March 23, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"By Our Reporter The church of Uganda has expressed \u00a0gratitude to Lands Minister, Judith Nabakooba, for her guidance on how the church should streamline land management and registration. \u00a0This comes after the minister's address to the House of Bishops at their leadership retreat at Lweza Training and Conference Centre. 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