“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.
The President also revisited his recent remarks about Uganda’s petroleum imports, saying some Kenyan media outlets had misrepresented what he said while presiding over the laying of the foundation stone for a 320-million-litre oil storage facility at Buyala.
According to Mukula, Uganda believes in the free and orderly movement of people, goods, services, and capital within the framework of regional laws and protocols, stating that it will continue to stand for the dignity of African brothers and sisters because Africa belongs to Africans.