Uganda: Activist opposes proposed law allowing private investors access mineral-rich land without consulting land-owners
President Museveniâs government wants to change the law to allow prospective investors in the mining industry to access private land that contains minerals without negotiating with the land-owners...His rationale for this was that âThe people who have to give you consent are the people who own the minerals, and that is the government. The other man [landowner] has no consent to give because the property is not hisâ, said President Museveni...
Development induced land acquisition has been on the rise across the country and this can only get worse given the ambitious development targets that the government has set. The National Development Plan 2 (NDP II) whose aim is to attain lower middle income status by 2020, contains many infrastructural development projects such as roads, railways, airports, dams, refineries, oil pipelines etc. These are bound to increase pressure on land across the country hence increasing human displacement.