KAMPALA: The State House Anti-Corruption Unit in a joint operation with Environmental Police and National Environmental Management Authority on Tuesday, June 7, 2022, demolished illegal structures and plantations from a wetland in Monkey village, Butabika, Kampala district.
This comes as a follow-up to an inspection that was done on the Kinawataka drainage channel. The findings established that the encroachers had built in the wetlands contrary to Article 245 of the Constitution. They had earlier been served with eviction notices.
The land became a hot issue after some people in connivance with officials of the Ministry of Land and other departments in the government started selling off land and forcefully evicting others in anticipation of compensation from the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) ahead of the Kampala-Jinja Expressway Road project.