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Article: Ugandan president defends land giveaway to investors
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- March 16, 2007
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Ugandan president defends land giveaway to investors
KAMPALA, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni
has defended his policy of land giveaway for investment, saying the
government would not hesitate to give more redundant land around
Kampala to those who are interested in developing it.
Laying the foundation stone for the Royal Palms Estate project, a
total of 1,400 modern housing units and apartments to be built on
part of the land formerly belonging to Butabika Hospital near
Kampala, Museveni reassured the developers their investment were
safe.
"I have heard some agents of backwardness saying we should not
give away land to investors. But I have given you my word. You ...