Government is set to give out 12,644 freehold land titles to residents of Biharwe and Nyakayojo in Mbarara City.
The move is aimed at protecting them against evictions and improving their livelihoods.
The beneficiaries are from the wards of Bugashe, Kichwamba, Rwakishakizi and Katojo in Mbarara City south and Nyabuhama and Rwenjeru wards in Mbarara City north.
Mbarara City Land Board chairperson Francis Barabanawe said working with the lands ministry, they were able to approve the residents’ applications for these titles under the Systematic Land Adjudication and Certification (SLAAC) programme.
Barabanawe stated that this is expected to encourage investment, fight poverty and promote local economic development of the entire City.
Barabanawe said the beneficiaries will receive these titles by the end of the SLAAC project, which is an initiative of the Government of Uganda through the lands ministry with help from the World Bank.
Lands minister Judith Nabakooba has been handing over these freehold titles across the country saying the Government made this deliberate effort to roll out a national programme of systematic land titling with support from the World Bank, through the Competitiveness Enterprise Development Project.
She said one of the government’s commitments is to assist landowners in acquiring land titles to the land in order to curb land disputes and evictions and also to protect citizens from the consequences of lack of land registration.
