After the National Environment Management Authority NEMA, the body in charge of protecting the environment, demolished more than 800 houses of people who were encroaching on a wetland in Lubigi along Northern Bypass Road, pain and despair still looms due to families lacking homes.

These people say that after their houses were demolished, they petitioned the president of the country, and he promised to help them get food and even sent the Prime Minister with relief however, the issue of property still lingers

The government in an effort to protect the environment, is engaging people in planting trees, not destroying forests, and not settling in wetlands so that the environment can be preserved in its natural state.

The body in charge of protecting the environment, NEMA in the past demolished more than 800 houses of people who were encroaching on a wetland in Lubigi along Northern Bypass Road, saying they were settling illegally. They say they were promised relief in the form of food, and it was given to them, but the issue of housing was never solved. 

The affected people have petitioned the government to provide them with some funds, claiming that the 1 million they were given is not enough to sustain them even if they were to relocate back to their villages.

Many affected people have been living in a terrible state, unable to sustain themselves, and this is what they had to say:  

These people now request the government to compensate their land, citing that their situation cannot allow them to purchase land anywhere anymore.