Uganda, Feb. 28 -- State Minister for transport Fred Byamukama Wednesday excited hundreds of people at Kabale School of Comprehensive Nursing (KSCN) after he revealed that he led a night operation to rescue the institution's land from land grabbers.

KSCN is a public training institution started in 1972 with 40 students. Currently, its enrollment is of about 655 students.

Byamukama said: "In 2011, while I was the guild president at KSCN, I led a night operation to uproot tea seedlings that were illegally planted on the school land by local investors."

He added: "That is the strength of student leaders. If I had not led the operation, part of the school land that was grabbed by the feared local investors would not have been recovered. I ...