Land is life
Fourth appearance on Radio Munansi
Greetings fellow Ugandans and friends
In this session I wish to share with you why in Uganda land is life and cannot be sold or leased to outsiders as is being done by NRM government.
1. Every human being needs land for a house, factory, recreation, garden, final resting place or a combination of all these functions.
2. Thus, every Ugandan whether educated, urban dweller, wage earner or not should have a piece of land. President Museveni stressed this point of land ownership when he addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 23, 2008. He stated that in Uganda all families own land. This point was well received by the audience.
3. Land ownership is especially vital for those who do not have non-agricultural skills.
4. Based on how an urban area is defined, some 90 percent of Ugandans still derive their livelihood from land.
5. The issue of land occupied the attention of colonial authorities. After serious debate between London and Entebbe taking into consideration the failure of European plantation agriculture in the 1920s, the colonial administration decided that Uganda’s land would be owned and worked virtually by Uganda peasants.