NTV PANORAMA: Lweza land row sucks in top officials
The unresolved land question and the rampant eviction of bibanja holders (squatters), especially in central region, without a doubt, cost the ruling NRM party in the just concluded presidential elections in which President Museveni polled 58 per cent. For a long time the President has warned against evictions, like in one land case at Birongo-Lweza zone along the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway in which the claimants include bibanja holders and a group of businessmen using names of top military officials. There is no evidence to prove that the officials are involved and a March 2017 Police investigation report concluded that the businessmen were peddling a fake land title. So why then did police evict the bibanja holders who have now been reduced to paupers?