{UAH} Promoters of Kasokoso Housing Estate now selling the notion that the Project will help the Poor

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Published on 19 November 2013

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Promoters of Kasokoso Housing Estate now selling  the notion that the Project will help the Poor acquire Decent Houses yet Nakawa and Naguru Estates Land is Lying Desolate after such an Eviction

By Stephen K Muwambi

To evict Nakawa and Naguru Estate former occupants, government sold the notion that some loaded investor had the funds ready to build what was touted as a satellite city.

The last straw that broke the camel’s back was the story of the 1000 houses that would be allocated to the former occupants of the estates on completion.

With the promise of decent houses, anyone who had raised dust over the eviction turned to the estates occupants and counseled them to peacefully leave the houses. After all, some loaded guy was willing to put a stop to their misery of staying in leaking and sorry houses. And here were the ungrateful beneficiaries rejecting such a good offer.

Sadly to say, since the occupants were thrown into the cold, there is no single decent or modern house that has since been put up at the two estates.

We continue to hear the old and tired song of a London based investor who is ready to do the job as soon as possible but with nothing tangible to show on the ground.

Missing in action

When the President commissioned the project not so long ago, there was not a single representative of the investor, whom we have been told, helped to implement such wonderful projects in North London.

That a serious investor would commit trillions of shillings to a project and fail to turn up at its commissioning sounds strange to many.

All the President could say is that he would not let anyone sabotage the trillions worth Nakawa and Naguru projects. Listening to the President’s such warning; one would be excused to think there was already a foundation of the so called satellite city on the ground then.

As the Nakawa and Naguru investor continue to drag his feet, former occupants of the estates risk being evicted from the rail land, which they are currently occupying. We say so because another investor RVR harbors plans to upgrade the rail slippers and so will need land to do so.

In the northern region, RVR has in the recent past evicted people living on its land. There is every likelihood that the investor would do the same to the former occupants of the Nakawa and Naguru Estates.

Kasokoso

As former residents of Nakawa and Naguru Estates make do with hurriedly constructed excuses of houses, another investor is determined to evict another bunch of residents in Kasokoso, Kireka in Wakiso district.

As it’s always the case where investors are concerned, Minister Daudi Migereko has sent out a strong warning to Kasokoso locals to give way for the investor. This is the same man who hurriedly drafted the LAND POLICY to purportedly stop land evictions when it suited the powers that be!

Namanve

It should be remembered that government razed Namanve forest, claiming there were ready investors to put up industries there. Years later, part of the land is occupied by residential houses with few serious industries to talk about.

The government has since conceded some of the people who said were investors, were simply conmen out to acquire free land and sell it to third parties. As such, government is confiscating those parcels of land whose ‘allocatees’ never took up as well as reviewing the whole project.

Shimoni land

We wait to see whether government which sold all and sundry an empty story during the CHOGM frenzy that indicated it had landed a billionaire Saudi Kingdom Prince to build a magnificent hotel at where used to be Shimoni demonstration school, will not have the investor evict Kasokoso locals and then  let the place grow into a bush.

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Gwokto La'Kitgum

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