By; Ben Musanje
29th Oct. 2020
Members of Parliament are demanding for the release of 568 land titles taken from residents of Masaka district by Uganda Electricity and Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) for mutation.
The MPs under the Natural Resources committee who are on a field visit to establish the access of electricity in Western Uganda say that residents of Matanga, Kalagala, Samaria and a large part of Mukungwe in Masaka risk losing their titles.
The residents surrendered their land titles between 2016 and 2018 during the construction of the 137km of a 220 KV transmission line from Kawanda to Masaka meant to relieve the crumbling and the unreliable 132 KV transmission line between Mutundwe substation and Masaka West Substation.
Although the process is supposed to take about six months, it has reportedly taken up to six years with most people yet to get back their land titles.
One of the land owners Michael Kalumba of Kitemba A and B villages in Mukungwe, Masaka who co owns 1 square mile land title with his family members says that many of the people bought land from them, but they cannot become owners of the land because the land title is still being held by UETCL.
Stephen Mukasa Kyeganwa, the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer UETCL says that several titles are still being held and the company is trying to conclude the mutation process that has taken long. He says some of the titles are with them and Ministry of Lands. He says the titles are with the different zonal offices handling land issues.
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