The Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II on Tuesday paid a courtesy visit to the 125-acre-land owned by the kingdom in Kaazi, Wakiso District to check on the activities being done on the land and how to solve the disputes arising on it.
Accompanied by Mr Denis Bugaya, the Buganda Land Board spokesperson, Mr Ssejjengo Baker (chairperson Buganda youth council), Joseph Kayemba (Head Communications BLB) and Mr Ashraf Kizito, the executive secretary of the Uganda Scouts and Girl Guides Association, Kabaka thanked the board for cancelling fraudulent land titles that had been issued by encroachers on the land which has helped maintain its ownership under the Kingdom.
He further urged BLB to strengthen efforts to protect the Kingdom's land by engaging with the squatters who are currently occupying the land.
In his remarks, Mr Bugaya, who is also a legal expert with the BLB urged the existing squatters who illegally obtained fraudulent titles on the land to seek clarification with the board with their documents, or else they face a forceful eviction.
"We continue to urge everyone who occupy this land (for the scouts), that the titles they obtained were cancelled out, and therefore they should come to the Kingdom board with legality documents to be helped out," he said.
"This land is not for sale, it is for the Kingdom," Bugaya warned.
The disputed land, located in Kyadondo Block 273, Plot 5, is part of the 350-square-mile area known as Olusukulwa Kabaka (Kabaka’s plantation).
The land which has for years served as Uganda's national scouts’ camping site was granted to the scouts body by the late Kabaka Daudi Chwa II for their camping activities.
