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You’re Selective In Your Evictions – Bobi Wine To NEMA

Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine, president of NUP has said National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), is selective in the way it operates.

On Tuesday, environment law enforcement officers led by Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) and police personnel, descended onto the wetland at Lubigi wetland in Rubaga Division of Kampala.

The army and police were armed with guns, hoes, sticks, and machetes (pangas). The officials embarked on enforcing an order to evict encroachers from the degraded wetland.

The named encroachers had houses, cash crops in the wetlands. However, Kyagulanyi says the low-income earners are always the ones evicted which is not fair at all.

“It is regrettable that the regime continues to selectively apply the law against the poor and ‘people without connections’. While sparing and protecting the rich, regime officials and their agents in private business who have encroached on tracts of wetlands and reclaimed lakes across the country with untold impunity,” said Kyagulanyi.

However, in their defence, NEMA says everything done is always in the jurisdiction of the law. Lubigi wetland is apparently being restored so that it can perform its ecological functions.

These include; water filtration and storage for safe consumption of the majority. NEMA officials insist that this is for the public good and not selfish interests.

NEMA on genetically modified mosquito plan

In separate news recently published by NEWSLEXPOINT.com, the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) had not yet granted Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) approval to introduce genetically modified mosquitoes. However, it only approved the rearing of wild mosquitoes ahead of the planned introduction of genetically modified mosquitoes (GMMs).

What NEMA approved in 2017 was the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for an insectary (for rearing mosquitoes),” Nema spokesperson, Mr Tony Achidria said.

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