{Over 52 residents of Karago sector in Nyabihu district have approached the prime minister’s office seeking for support on retaining their land for agriculture.}
This approach came as a result of poverty that has dominated the village after losing land in Gishwati for farming, as it was confirmed by residents.
Speaking to IGIHE, these people were stopped from using the land in 2008, whereby financial controllers came and made property evaluation but up to now no feedback were given to them.
Apart from the feedback awaited from the financial controllers on their property, they were not also given authority to continue with the land utilization.
According to information from the source, poverty has led a few of them migrating to the eastern province and even the neighboring Uganda.
However, residents of this village confirm they are unaware of the reason to stop them from using the land.
In an interview with IGIHE, Twahirwa Abdulatif the mayor of Nyabihu district confirmed,” the people of Gishwati village are aware of the reason to why they were stopped from using the land”.
Asked about the compensation, Twahirwa said, they first compensated people who were staying in Gishwati and owned property in that area.
Currently, 30 residents have been accounted and are expecting to be compensated very soon. Said the mayor
Since 2008 the government of Rwanda started a program to relocate, and also protect people from settling in areas affected by natural hazards and that’s what happened to the habitants of Gishwati.
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