{UAH} Pictorial: A tour of The Disputed Kyangwali Land

Pictorial: A tour of The Disputed Kyangwali Land

10 Sep 2016, 15:34 0 Comments 196 Views Hoima, Uganda Environment Slideshow

• 
  Thembo Kahungu

  A cross painted red. It was allegedly erected after the High Court in Masindi dismissed an injunction application by NFA. some people chanted "NFA tukagizika aha " literally meaning NFA was buried here

• 
  Thembo Kahungu

  Kingdom royalists blow entertainment instruments locally known as "amakondere " as the group arrives in Kyangwali

• 
  Thembo Kahungu

  Read for any eventualities. The kingdom fighters "abalusura " armed with bows and clubs

• 
  Thembo Kahungu

  Women and children ready to enter the bush to be guided through the boundaries of the kingdom land in Kyangwali

• 
  Thembo Kahungu

  Kingdom deputy prime minister Xavier Kiiza (R) looks on as Tadeo Baguma the kingdom lands commission boss shows the boundary

• 
  Thembo Kahungu

  These two boys also took on the expedition to know more about the ancestral land

• 
  Thembo Kahungu

  This journalist with one of the local radio stations could not miss to take a bite of a forest fruit

• 
  Thembo Kahungu

  We must see it all: determined royalists (emyenda ya Bunyoro ) traverse the busy Kyangwali land

• 
  Thembo Kahungu

  One of the trees inside the land that was toured by kingdom loyalists on Thursday

• 
  Thembo Kahungu

  One of the kingdom traditional royal guards (abalusura )is tough by an elder on hour to use a sharpening stone to make a tool ready for work. The sharpening stone was found at where some of the homesteads used to be before

• 
  Thembo Kahungu

  People admiring one of the thorny trees inside the land. It is always planted around grave yards in case the family shifts from the original place where relatives have been buried

• 
  Thembo Kahungu

  A muddy part of what remained behind of the houses on the land in the 1960s is displayed during the tour

• 
  Thembo Kahungu

  Women dance to the amakondere tune as the crowed coverged after the tour of the land

• 
  Thembo Kahungu

  Men join hands to uproot the popular "murondo" a bush herb said to be behind consistent sexual power among men

• 
  Thembo Kahungu

  This man displays his police bond document. He is one of the people, e

• 
  Thembo Kahungu

  Part of the land that has so far been cleared by the Hoima Sugar Limited a company that received a lease from Bunyoro-Kitara kingdom for sugarcane growing

• 
  Thembo Kahungu

  A cross painted red. It was allegedly erected after the High Court in Masindi dismissed an injunction application by NFA. some people chanted "NFA tukagizika aha " literally meaning NFA was buried here

• 
  Thembo Kahungu

  Kingdom royalists blow entertainment instruments locally known as "amakondere " as the group arrives in Kyangwali

• Previous
• Next

 

 Close to 200 subjects of Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom on Thursday toured the Kyangwali land at the centre of a dispute between the cultural institution and the National Forestry Authority (NFA).
  
A civil suit in which the NFA is accusing the kingdom of degrading the environment and part of Bugoma Central Forest Reserve is before the High Court in Masindi. The kingdom has leased the 22 hectare piece of land to Hoima Sugar Limited to plant sugar cane.
  
Three weeks ago, NFA went to court after the kingdom started cutting down trees in what it said was opening of boundaries between Bugoma Central Forest Reserve and the Kyangwali ancestral land.
  
However, after the High Court dismissed the NFA application for a temporary injunction on the continued development of the land, Bunyoro officials led by Xavier Kiiza, the deputy prime minister, spent the whole of Thursday touring the land.
URN's Thembo Kahungu took on the expedition throughout the vegetation and thickets to bring the pictures

Read more: http://ugandaradionetwork.com/story/pictorial-as-bunyoro-kingdom-officials-subjects-tour-disputed-land-in-kyangwali#ixzz4JtLBvwYz

Gwokto La'Kitgum

----------------------------------------------------------------

"Even a small dog can piss on a tall building" Jim Hightower

--
Disclaimer:Everyone posting to this Forum bears the sole responsibility for any legal consequences of his or her postings, and hence statements and facts must be presented responsibly. Your continued membership signifies that you agree to this disclaimer and pledge to abide by our Rules and Guidelines.To unsubscribe from this group, send email to: ugandans-at-heart+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com