{"id":7664,"date":"2022-12-15T16:43:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=7664"},"modified":"2022-12-15T16:44:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:44:02","slug":"lands-minister-nabakooba-calls-for-dialogue-between-nfa-and-residents-of-kiboga-over-disputed-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/lands-minister-nabakooba-calls-for-dialogue-between-nfa-and-residents-of-kiboga-over-disputed-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Lands Minister Nabakooba calls for dialogue between NFA and Residents of Kiboga over disputed land"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Minister for Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Judith Nabakooba, has intervened in a land dispute between the National Forestry Authority (NFA) &nbsp;and residents of Kiboga district . NFA says that over 10,000 people tressed on a forest reserve land in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nabakooba also urged NFA to use the right methods in trying to solve the land dispute between them and the residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the NFA sector director, Jonan Mugisha, NFA has been involved in boundary opening of forest reserves &nbsp;in Kiboga district where they found that some residents had encroached on .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"924\" height=\"612\" data-attachment-id=\"7666\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/lands-minister-nabakooba-calls-for-dialogue-between-nfa-and-residents-of-kiboga-over-disputed-land\/nab-2-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Nab-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"924,612\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Nab-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Nab-2.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Nab-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Nab-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Nab-2.jpg 924w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Nab-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Nab-2.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Deputy Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Lutwama Mathias said ,\u201cNFA conducted a land survey in 2007 to help them establish the land boundaries of the entity\u2019s forest reserves and about 10,000 people were evicted from the land. Most likely NFA didn\u2019t keep their records and are now coming back to haunt the residents which I think is unfair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These people need to be heard. They have nowhere to go,\u201d he said while addressing residents who had convened at the district headquarters during the Minister\u2019s visit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"461\" data-attachment-id=\"7667\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/lands-minister-nabakooba-calls-for-dialogue-between-nfa-and-residents-of-kiboga-over-disputed-land\/nab3-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/nab3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1040,468\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"nab3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/nab3.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/nab3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/nab3-1024x461.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/nab3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/nab3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/nab3.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/nab3.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kiboga sub-county LC III Chairperson- Ssenteza expressed concern over what he called unfair treatment of residents who have been on the land for more than two decades. \u201cThe residents have been on this land for years. We have done our best to respect the boundaries of \u00a0forest reserves. But NFA shocked us when they said our people had encroached on their land. We thought they had established the boundaries in the earlier survey,\u201d he said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Judith Nabakooba, has intervened in a land dispute between the National Forestry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7665,"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":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-land"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/nba.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13269,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/over-9000-people-face-eviction-in-mubende-forest-reserve-minister-nabakooba-to-engage-president-museveni-about-the-matter\/","url_meta":{"origin":7664,"position":0},"title":"Over 9,000 People Face Eviction in Mubende Forest Reserve, Minister Nabakooba To Engage President Museveni About The Matter","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"November 11, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"By Our Reporter Lands Minister Judith Nabakooba has promised to engage \u00a0her boss President Yoweri \u00a0Museveni to find a lasting solution for more than\u00a0 9,000 residents of Kasambya Sub County who are settled on the \u00a0Mubende Central forest reserve land. 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