Lubigi residents clash with encroachers

By Winnie Nakabugo
On May 17, this year, a group of people, who called themselves the “Abataasoma”, invaded a swamp along Hoima road and forced their way to develop it against the standing orders of the National Environment Management Authority in an area gazetted as a wetland to preserve the ecosystem. The wetland, Lubigi swamp, forms the belt in the northern and western parts of Kampala where most of the waste water from Bwaise and Nateete drains. NEMA has been battling with the

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