“Houses were brought down by tractors while mothers and children watched helplessly, pleading for more time to save their belongings. This is not enforcement. This is cruelty,” Oyat said.
The Prime Minister explained that the decision followed difficulties in securing large tracts of land within the sub-region for resettling affected communities.
Media reports indicate 1.2 million people work as boda boda riders in Uganda, which makes the motorcycle taxi business the second largest employer in the country, right after agriculture.