#Uganda Land Probe Committee crosses the redline into the restricted #Banyarwanda zone

Museveni instituted a Land Probe Committee with the sole purpose of hoodwinking Ugandans over his grand scheme to alienate citizens from their land.  However, the same committee is now overstepping its mandate by poking its nose into the matters of land for the Banyarwanda who are the main beneficiaries of the land alienation.  On 2nd July 2015, this website ran a story titled:  WHY WOULD A UGANDAN STAY IN A REFUGEE CAMP? in which we highlighted the plight of one family of Banyarwanda from Mbarara who had sought refuge in a refugee camp at Rwamwanja after another Rwandese, Isaac Ndahiro had used the top police leadership to violently evict them from the land they claim to own.  On 26th July 2017, we wrote another piece titled:  WHY THE BANYARWANDA QUESTION AND LAND ISSUES ARE INSEPARABLE in which we highlighted the systematic targeting of land by Banyarwanda taking advantage of their preferential treatment by Museveni.

Last week the committee hosted the same Rwandese national, Isaac Ndahiro who has evicted families from 562 hectares of land at Kyeera in Mbarara district.  The 47 years old is a Rwandese national but claims to also be a Ugandan "by natural descent".  He claims to have studied at Makerere University and upon graduation he worked with the defunct Uganda Railways Corporation (URC) as the Operations Officer.  When URC collapsed, he went to Rwanda and acquired its citizenship in 1988 before getting UK Scholarship to further his studies at Birmingham University and later a job at the UN in Hungary.  He claims to have acquired the said land from his late father under a customary arrangement.  The committee Chairperson remarked thus; " I don't know your customs you will tell us a bit about it.". She also asked him to declare her relationship to the former Solicitor General, Peter Kabatsi.   The simple answer is that they are both Banyarwanda who execute their schemes in a well-connected syndicate.

The level of confidence and arrogance exhibited by Isaac Ndahiro is derived from the fact that he enjoys the full blessing of Museveni.  During his radio mobilisation for land alienation on the Mbarara based Radio West around September, a caller told him about the land dispute in question and Museveni reluctantly acknowledged that he knew about it.  The part to this particular land conflict are all "both Ugandans and Rwandese by choice" and not legally.  The committee ought to tread carefully because it is now treading into the territory of the Wenyeinchi (owners of the country) unlike the ordinary Wanainchi (citizens).  In 2016 the then Minister of Internal Affairs, Rose Akol ventured into the dangerous waters by questioning Rwandese who were holding both Ugandan and Rwandese National IDs and she was immediately fired.

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