Six people are said to have
been injured this morning in a land wrangle between the cultivators and
cattle keepers in Rwehingo in Bukonzo west constituency.
Four of the injured are cultivators while other two said to be seriously injured are cattle Keepers.
The High Court judge Justice Owiny Dolo early in may his year ruled in favour of the farmers who had sued government for giving out their land to the pastoralists when they were repatriated from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006.
Court also ordered the government to pay twelve million shillings to each of the two hundred eighty nine farmers who had not cultivated on the land for five years.
Farmers who successful won a high court case of their land in Rwehingo and Bukangara in Bukonzo West were this morning being handed their land only to be welcomed by the cattle keepers armed with pangas and Speers.
The particulars of those injured are not yet known but sources say that they have been rushed to Bwera hospital for medication.
Our correspondent at the scene said that cattle keepers were later dispersed by Police using tear gas and they took off.
The Kasese district Chairperson Lt. Col. Mawa Muhindo together with Police went to scene to officially hand over the land under question to the farmers.
By press time, efforts to here from the chairman Lt. Col. Mawa Muhindo were futile but he has always said that the district leadership will honour the high court ruling that says the land belongs to the farmers.
Four of the injured are cultivators while other two said to be seriously injured are cattle Keepers.
The High Court judge Justice Owiny Dolo early in may his year ruled in favour of the farmers who had sued government for giving out their land to the pastoralists when they were repatriated from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006.
Court also ordered the government to pay twelve million shillings to each of the two hundred eighty nine farmers who had not cultivated on the land for five years.
Farmers who successful won a high court case of their land in Rwehingo and Bukangara in Bukonzo West were this morning being handed their land only to be welcomed by the cattle keepers armed with pangas and Speers.
The particulars of those injured are not yet known but sources say that they have been rushed to Bwera hospital for medication.
Our correspondent at the scene said that cattle keepers were later dispersed by Police using tear gas and they took off.
The Kasese district Chairperson Lt. Col. Mawa Muhindo together with Police went to scene to officially hand over the land under question to the farmers.
By press time, efforts to here from the chairman Lt. Col. Mawa Muhindo were futile but he has always said that the district leadership will honour the high court ruling that says the land belongs to the farmers.
Reported by Edward Makanika
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