To address the rising instances of land fraud in the nation, Minister of Lands, Housing, and Urban Development Judith Nabakooba has ordered the technical team to expedite the land digitization system.
Within a year, the ministry intends to enter all previously collected data on land into the system, according to Nabakooba.
Our goal is to enter all of the outdated data into the system because, in my opinion, if we digitize all of our records, we will be better able to spot fraud and forgeries as well as anomalies like double plotting and double titling.
“We are giving ourselves a year to ensure that all the old information is put onto the system,” the woman continued, “and we believe that within a year, if my registrars and information technology (IT) people can put these systems together, then we can look at ways of safeguarding and strengthening the registrar.”
In order to speed up the processing of a land title and to ensure simple management of the land information system, the government launched the digitization of the land office.
The Land Information System was developed by digitizing manual data records at the Lands Ministry.
On October 5, a high-level meeting on housing will be held by the ministry of lands in collaboration with UN Habitat to propose workable alternatives for affordable housing in Uganda.
The symposium will serve as a forum for displaying and debating creative approaches to decent, accessible, and inclusive housing.
According to Nabakooba, “it will be a platform for addressing cross-cutting issues like gender and youth engagement in the housing sector.”
