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Daily Monitor
Wednesday February 03 2021
Some of the affected residents of Makukulu Village at New Hope Community Nursery and Primary School after a meeting on June 5,2019. PHOTO/ PAUL SSEKANDI.
Summary
Government wants the land to serve as a pre-export quarantine ground, where animals can be vaccinated before they are exported.
Challenges: Mr George Kabende, whom government entrusted as a caretaker of the land, said he has been fighting squatters for more than 20 years.
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The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries has rekindled its earlier plan to repossess 242.541 acres of land at Makukulu Village in Kaliro Sub-county, Lyatonde District, which is currently occupied by more than 1,000 squatters.