Cura 1 - LEMU - The Land and Equity Movement in Uganda

The Principles, Practices, Rights and Responsibilities (PPRR) of Customary Tenure in Lango Region
17. Clan rights and responsibilities over customary land.
LANGO CULTURAL FOUNDATION
a) Each clan shall have, among others, the following rights and
responsibilities over customary land:i.
Protecting customary land
ii. Knowing the overall size of clan land
iii. Ensuring that land is not sold without knowledge and consent
of the clan.
iv. Getting alternative means to solve the problems such as
need for school fees, dowry, compensation, repaying loans
so that land is not sold.
v. Protecting and respecting the rights of widows, orphans,
women, the aged, the sick and the disabled so that their
land and other properties are not grabbed from them.
vi. Ensuring that customary land is preserved for the future
generation.
vii. Informing people of information regarding customary land.
viii. Protecting community land such as grazing and hunting
land, forests and water points.
ix. Protecting land vested in the government to hold on behalf
of the public such as forest, roads, and road reserves,
wetlands and game reserves.
x. Ensuring that customary land is managed in strict adherence
to this PPRR.
xi. Protecting land boundaries by planting agreed trees.
xii. Mediating on land conflicts but referring them to clan
committees, where they fail.
18. Marking land boundaries to reduce land conflicts
a) All clan sub parish chiefs must proactively promote the planting
of agreed boundary trees along land boundaries so as to reduce
boundary disputes.
b) The agreed trees are omara-omara, etuba and oligo. Omara omara
or Oligo shall be planted in the middle of etuba that are to be planted
at the corners of the land.
c) Tree planting shall proceed as here under;
i) Either the chairperson LC1 or the sub parish chief of each clan,
of the area where the land is shall convene a meeting of a team
composed of: people with rights to the land, clan members,
neighbours to land being demarcated, elders who know the
boundaries of the land and the persons with interest in the
land.