Uganda: 19,000 Kampala Land Titles Can't Be Traced in Registry

17 January 2019

Kampala — Only 69,942 out of 89,473 files containing land titles of privately-owned land are captured in the Land Information System (LIS), causing fear of double allocation among owners, the acting Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) executive director has said.

"The problem with this is that the land whose records are not captured could be double-allocated by different leasing or controlling authorities because there is lack of a clear database for the land of each controlling authority with respect to the actual land holding they superintend over," Mr Andrew Kitaka said yesterday at City Hall during a consultative meeting to assess the Ministry of Land's zonal offices.

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