{UAH} Private Led Growth - Engola on Urban Development

We have a big job to clear urban development and government has realised that it has a big role to play so we are not sleeping but working day and night because people have built where they were not supposed to," he told Daily Monitor in an interview.

He added that places like Muyenga, which were developed under the Mailo land tenure system, have become an eye-sore to urban development because , residents constructed buildings without getting approval from the urban authorities and now in order to evict the land lords, government needs to first compensate them and buy back the land.

"We need the Land Fund to compensate such people because this is not just a matter for Kampala but we are getting complaints from as far as up country. There are people who encroached on wetlands and they need compensation but we do not have the money," he said.

Asked how much is needed for the fund, Mr Engola said the money would be determined as and when it is needed.

http://www.monitor.co.ug/Business/Centralise-construction-permits-to-control-unplanned-settlements/-/688322/2602004/-/jifma2/-/index.html
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