Jalyiny James, aged between 40-50 years is among

the very rst people who were living in Bukona B by

2012 to append his signature on documents brought by

Strategic Friends International (SFI). SFI is a

Ugandan rm that was contracted by government to

carry out research, draw Resettlement Action Plan and

then compensate and resettle 7118 people from the 13

villages of Kabaale parish; Bukona B inclusive,

Buseruka Sub County in Hoima district to pave way

for an oil renery that is to be constructed there.

James used to do farming on his 18 acres of land,

growing crops such as cassava, maize, groundnuts,

and reared some domestic animals on that land. nd

However, on 2 June 2012, the people in the renery

area were stopped to do any development on the land

because they had signed documents showing that land

had been transferred to government yet they had not

been neither compensated nor relocated.

Surprisingly, he is also among the remaining people

yet to be compensated yet he was among rst to

append his signature on compensation documents!

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Michael Businge

Field coordinator-AFIEGO Hoima oce

0773769450/0701176251

NOTEVENTHOSEWHOAPPENDEDTHEIRSIGNATURESFIRSTHAVEBEEN

COMPENSATEDTOPAVEWAYFORTHEOILREFINERYPROJECTINKABAALE-

BUSERUKA.

He says that almost all his village mates have been

given cash compensation and gone away while a

few are waiting for relocation from other areas

like Nyahaira and Nyakasinini and other areas in

and near Kabaale. It is only him and Nehemiah

Adidi, whom he calls neighbor who have

remained in that village. This year in February,

he lost a relative and only a few people went for

burial as the place is now in accessible, besides the

area is now grappling with no clean water, an

invasion of both cattle from the 'Balaalo' and

wild animals! Life now seems unpredictable for

him and his neighbor who seem to be ignored and

abandoned by government.

He is asking himself whether this is a

conrmation of the Bible adage that says that the

last shall be the rst.

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