Oil was identified about five years ago in Nwoya district [Uganda]. They have started to install infrastructure and the [extraction site] is under tight security. Since people discovered the oil, there has been land grabbing…so now people are buying up the land—government officials, prominent business people—in the name of investment. If these powerful figures discover that the people don’t have land titles, we will just wake up and find ourselves with nothing. —(Ngobeni, 2018)
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