Nakapiripirit: Land probe orders for arrest of Kenyan over land grabbing
Justice Catherine Bamugemereire, the chair of the commission into Land Inquiry, yesterday ordered the arrest of a Kenyan in Nakapiripirit for holding a fake Uganda identity card and allegedly grabbing people’s land.
During a public dialogue at Nakapiripirit district headquarters, Kapelile Ngole, 47, was accused of grabbing people’s land at Lokeris Village in Morita Sub County Nakapiripirit district.
He was detained at CPS Nakapiripirit on orders Bamugemereire after he produced a Ugandan identity card and upon scrutiny the commission discovered that it was fake.
This came after Simon Lonkene accused Kapelile Ngole of claiming ownership of his customary land which prompted the commission to invite him for cross examination.
Nakapiripirit district leaders led by the Resident district Commissioner David Modo showed decried the escalating land disputes between locals who have encroached on public land owned by government institutions like Namalu prisons land, forest and game reserves.
Some of the locals including Mariam Sande Lokis a retired Police officer wept before the commission as they narrated how they have suffered under the whims of land grabbers.
Yesterday, the commission concluded its working field tour in different districts in Eastern Uganda with the highest number of land disputes reported in Bulambuli, Kween, Tororo and Soroti. Others are in Moroto, Napak and Nakapiripirit.
