Uganda, March 21 -- A 60-year-old widow and her family are currently stranded after being forcefully evicted from a home in Mutembei Cell, Pallisa Town Council in Pallisa District by the town council leadership.

Ms Asanansi Kavambuga and her family were thrown out on Tuesday from a land they had been living in since 1980s, because her home was constructed on a road reserve.

Ms Kavambuga, whose household items were destroyed during the eviction, said the council leadership was working on orders of Mr Outa Umar, a local developer, who had been pressuring her and her family to sell him the land in question to enable him access his commercial house.

"Mr Outa had promised to compensate me with Shs7m, but he only paid Shs3m. He failed to giv...