By Peter Abanabasazi
Leaders in Kikuube district have asked President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to intervene into the misery of Bukinda evictees and get a way of resettling them as lasting solution.
The call by the leaders comes after four days, when the evictees were pushed out of the camp where they have stayed for about two years by the landlord Alex Tumusiime.
The 2000 people are part of over 60,000 people who were evicted by the office of the prime minister in 2013 seeking to expand the Kyangwali refugee settlement. They are feuding over 36 square kilometers of land.
Tumusiime evicted the group on Monday after the date he had issued for the evictees to vacate expired, Tumusiime poured building material in the area and asked them to vacate and allow him to start construction.
Since they have nowhere to run too, the evictees and their children are wandering in Kikuube town council without any one to help them.
Part of the group has camped at home area of Kikuube district woman Member of Parliament Florence Natumanya located in Kidoma parish in Kiziranfumbi sub-county while others have camped at the home of the Buhaguzi County Member of Parliament Francis Kazini.
When contacted, Francis Kazini, the Buhaguzi County MP, says that the situation was beyond their capacity adding that they had left the evictees to temporarily settle at their home because they have nowhere to take them.
He says they had moved to Kampala to meet the ministers for lands and disaster preparedness to find a solution.
He notes that the evictees have suffered enough without food, shelter and medication as if they are not Ugandans adding that there is a need to have this issue addressed.
Peter Banura, the Kikuube district chairperson also says that as leaders they were concerned about the suffering of the people adding that apart from having nowhere to live, they have no food. He commended the area MPs who have accepted to host them temporarily and challenged the government to intervene.
Banura asked the president intervene in the matter adding that the Bukinda issue is beyond, the district leaders and ministers.
