Uganda, March 27 -- Approximately 130,000 residents of Rwentuha Sub-county and Kazinga Town Council in the Kyegegwa District are on the brink of eviction.

The affected residents are accused of encroaching on government land on which they have established their homes for nearly three decades.

This mass displacement is a consequence of President Museveni's directive to Mr Hilary Onek, the Minister of Relief and Disaster Preparedness, instructing him to secure approximately 10 square miles from the two refugee settlement camps, namely Kyaaka 1 and Kyaaka II, in Kyegegwa.

Mr Museveni wants the land to be given to an investor to establish an avocado plantation on five square miles while the other five square miles would have an industrial p...