By The Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development has canceled 1,237 overlapping land titles on Blocks 190, 193, and 530 in Mukono Municipality as part of a major clean-up of the national land register.
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The canceled titles were discovered during a comprehensive audit and verification exercise launched to resolve long-standing errors in land registration, which had resulted in multiple titles being issued on the same parcels of land. The anomalies were largely attributed to overlaps created when colonial-era urban blocks were imposed on existing mailo land without proper coordination.
Announcing the development, Lands Minister Judith Nabakooba said the clean-up was necessary to combat widespread land fraud, protect public interests, and restore trust in the land registration system.
“These overlapping titles were being used to defraud members of the public and even financial institutions,” she said. “We halted transactions on the affected blocks and undertook this clean-up. I am pleased to report that the register is now clean and these blocks are officially open for transactions again.”
The exercise targeted Blocks 190, 193, and 530 in Kyaggwe County, Mukono Municipality, which were selected as a pilot project following the digitization of the national land registry. The digital system enabled the Ministry to detect and address deep-seated discrepancies that were harder to catch under the old manual system.
The process involved public notifications, hearings, and consultations with landowners and their representatives before titles were officially canceled.
Minister Nabakooba praised the patience of affected landowners and commended the Mukono Zonal Office and Ministry staff for their diligent work.
“We are committed to building a clean, accurate, and transparent land registry that supports secure tenure and sustainable land use,” she said, reaffirming the Ministry’s goal of preventing similar issues elsewhere in the country.
The Ministry assured the public that transactions on the cleaned-up blocks can now proceed normally under the updated and verified records
