Lands ministry reassures Ugandans of commitment to attaining a national land register

22 June 2025, 1:58 pm

By Ronald Ssemagonja

As one of the ways to promote fairness in the issues of land countrywide, the minister of lands, housing and urban development, Hon. Judith Nabakooba, speaking to journalists at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala, reassured the ministry’s readiness to fulfill its mandate. “The ministry of lands housing and urban development is mandated to ensure the national and sustainable use, effective management of land, orderly development of urban and rural area, and provision of safe, planned, and adequate housing for socioeconomic development,” she said

The minister went on to state that the ministry archives its mandate through performing a number of responsibilities and functions, among which are issuing land titles and maintaining the national register in some urban areas, such as Mukono. “When urban centres were established during the colonial times in the 1950s, the Town Blocks were demarcated disregarding the earlier existing original Blocks, which led to the creation of overlapping titles, hence with its mandate, the ministry took it upon itself to clean and rectify these urban areas’ land registry. Mukono Municipality was chosen as the pilot in specific Blocks, 190 and 530,” she confirmed.

It is against this background that the ministry of lands housing and urban development halted transactions on the said Blocks and undertook a cleanup exercise to rectify the land register, public notices through newspapers, etc. While cleaning up the land register, public notes were issued through public hearings. A total of 1237 titles were identified for cancellation, which has been done successfully on Blocks 190 and 530. The ministry of lands housing and urban development assures the general public that it is committed to attaining a national land register.