“You Cannot Have Such a Truck and Disturb a Poor Man” —Minister Balaam

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Local Government Minister Balaam Barugahara has urged a wealthy party involved in the contested Rushebeya Market land dispute in Rukiga District to compensate a poor man as the government resolves the matter.
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“You cannot have such a truck and disturb a poor man. That poor man, go and give him money, as the government sorts you,” Balaam said in a video circulating online.​

The dispute concerns public land at Rushebeya Trading Centre in Rwamucucu Sub-county, where former Rukiga Woman MP Caroline Kamusiime Muhwezi and her husband, Andrew Muhwezi, have faced allegations from residents and traders of fencing off part of the land and interfering with market access.

Balaam directed that the market land be reopened for public use pending assessment of legitimate claims by the Chief Government Valuer.​