Uganda: Land Eviction Threats Create Panic in Govt

27 February 2015

A number of landlords have secured court orders to evict government institutions and repossess their properties, The Observer has learnt.

The impending evictions follow government's failure to pay ground rent arrears totaling billions of shillings to the landowners. The institutions that face eviction include public universities, hospitals, Uganda Prisons, Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute, schools and farm institutes, among others.

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