“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 ongoing eviction drive by the Uganda Railways Corporation (URC) is not a sudden surprise. By law, railway tracks require a 60 metre wide reserve corridor, of 30 metres on each side to keep the public safe and leave room for future projects, like the new Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). Therefore building a home, a shop, a school or a church inside this zone is legally considered trespassing on public property.

“They secretly carved up URC land, printed official land titles, and sold them to unsuspecting families and developers. Believing their papers were legal, citizens spent their life savings building permanent homes and multi-story concrete buildings, which are now being destroyed,” Byamukama noted.

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