“Museveni, You’ve Stolen Enough, Can’t You Leave Lubigi For Us!” Lame Father of 5 Drops to His Knees in NEMA Showdown! - The Witness Uganda

“Museveni, You’ve Stolen Enough, Can’t You Leave Lubigi For Us!” Lame Father of 5 Drops to His Knees in NEMA Showdown! - The Witness Uganda

The crunch of breaking timber and the heavy thud of brick hitting mud were entirely drowned out by a father’s desperate pleas. In Lubigi-Kawaala, a sprawling suburb of Kampala, the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), backed by armed police, executed a massive eviction drive to reclaim the city’s largest wetland. But among the ruins of iron sheets and scattered household items, the mechanical coldness of state policy collided violen…