Leaders in Sembabule District have started opening boundaries on the 200-acre piece of land donated by President Museveni to Lutunku community in Kawanda Sub-county.

The move, according to district leaders, is aimed at protecting the land from unscrupulous individuals who had intentions of grabbing it.

The development follows district probe committee findings (of July 2023) that indicated that some of the people had grabbed part of the land where they had earlier settled as tenants, and some had started constructing permanent buildings on it.

Mr Faisal Sseruwagi, the Sembabule deputy resident district commissioner, said many individuals who were using part of the land to grow crops have since been evicted.

“There were some farmers that were using the land after the management of the polytechnic hired part of it to them, but we advised the administration not to allow them to use the land anymore, and by the time we embarked on boundary opening, a few of them still had gardens on the land and they were asked to harvest their crops this season and leave,” he said during an interview last week.

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