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At least 150 families displaced by landslides from Bulambuli and Sironko districts protest against Eviction directive

07 February, 2023
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At least 150 families displaced by landslides from Bulambuli and Sironko districts are up in arms against a directive by Bulambuli Resident District Commissioner Stanley Bayole to vacate the government resettlement land in one week. 



The families in Kata and Mabale village Bunambutye sub-county in Bulambuli district staged a peaceful demonstration on Monday protesting the eviction notice. 

Michael Wabona, the LCI Chairperson of Mabale village, said that the RDC held a meeting with the affected residents last week and ordered them to vacate the land before the end of this week and return to their areas of origin.

According to Wabona, the affected people occupied the contested land in 2004 after the president ordered all people living in disaster-prone areas in Sironko and Bulambuli to vacate and settle in safer areas. Wabona says that the families cannot vacate the land that was bought by the government to resettle landslide victims.

Betty Muzaki, another affected resident accused RDC and their neighbors who were resettled from others areas of burning their houses and destroying their crops as a way of forcing them to vacate.

However, Stanley Bayola, the Bulambuli Resident District Commissioner has denied allegations of burning the houses and destroying crops. He, however, insisted that the affected people settled on the land illegally.

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