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Energy Minister Ruth Nankabirwa, while addressing the media in Kampala last month, acknowledged the 112 cases under consideration for compulsory land acquisition due to issues such as untraceable individuals, landowner disputes, refusal of compensation offers, and lack of legal title.
Uganda’s government is in a legal tussle with 112 landowners who are set to be displaced by the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) as low-value payment, absentee landlords, and a complex land ownership system in some parts of the country delay compensation, causing a headache to the project developers.
Because of this, a Ugandan court heard a case in which the government has sued 80 people, seeking to evict them from their land in three districts within the Greater Masaka region on the route of the Eacop, whose developers are racing against time to meet the timelines set for the country’s first oil exports next year.
Two similar cases were also heard featuring landowners in Hoima and Kyankwanzi districts, which are part of the 296km Eacop stretch in Uganda, where at least 32 absentee landowners and others who rejected low-value compensation pose significant delays.
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Energy Minister Ruth Nankabirwa, while addressing the media in Kampala last month, acknowledged the 112 cases under consideration for compulsory land acquisition due to issues such as untraceable individuals, landowner disputes, refusal of compensation offers, and lack of legal title. The project is entering a critical stage to start laying the pipeline, with early civil works almost complete.
