The High Court Land Division has extended its order restraining National Environmental Management Authority-NEMA from evicting 304 people from Kansanga Kiwafu B and Heritage Zones in Makindye Division.
Justice Yasin Nyanzi extended the order pending the hearing of an application by the affected residents challenging their eviction.
The judgement comes after the residents complained that they would suffer irreparable damage unless NEMA is blocked from evicting them.
The order was scheduled to expire on 6th July 2020 since the matter had been fixed for hearing before Justice Nyanzi.
However, the main case couldn’t be heard as scheduled because the judge had advised the applicants to amend their suit and reduce the number of complainants.
The applicants are challenging NEMA’s Environmental restoration order of June 8, 2020, which gave them 21 days to demolish their houses and vacate the suit land or else face forceful eviction.
The applicants contend that they have been living on the contested land for over thirty years even before the NEMA Act was enacted in 1998.
