Council recovers River Nile land from investor
By Abubaker Kirunda (email the author)
Posted Sunday, March 6 2011 at 00:00
Jinja Municipal Council has recovered part of the source of the Nile land that had allegedly been sold to an investor. The land, measuring seven acres near the golf course on Bridge Street, had been allocated to Black Eagles Investment by the district land board in 2008 amidst protest by the municipal council, which was the sitting tenant.
The municipal council authorities argued that as the sitting tenants, the land board was to consult them prior to giving out the land which they had already gazetted as a leisure park in the town plan.
The leisure park called Chairman’s Park was given to the investor at a premium of Shs80 million which was paid to the municipal treasury. On realising that the council was denied this land, it sought intervention from the Ministry of Lands which ordered them to refund the premium to the investor who unfortunately had no physical address.
Land title given
However, during a council meeting on Thursday, the acting Jinja town clerk, Mr Jeforum Waidhuba, said the Ministry of Lands has issued a land title for this land in the names of Jinja Municipal Council.
“I would like to announce that the land title for Jinja Central Market and the Chairman’s Park land at the source of the Nile have been given to us therefore any developments we make on them is secure,” Mr Waidhuba said.
He said an application has also been made by the municipal council to cancel the land title which had been issued in the name of Black Eagles. He also said council would within two weeks start re-locating vendors in Jinja Central Market to create room for the start of its re-construction.
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