"Living in fear: Hushed plans to sell villagers` land to uranium explorers"
Fear of eviction from their land by a uranium exploration company has made thousands of residents in six villages of Kwamtoro ward, Chemba district fail to grow permanent crops and develop permanent structures. The villagers from Kwamtoro, Ndoroboni, Kisande, Mialo, Porobanguma, Lahoda, Msera and Handa made these affirmations basing on government directive issued in 2013 that required them to vacate their areas for an investor...
Acting village Executive Officer for Mialo village, Sefu Salim said that until then they did not know the name of the uranium company but they first experienced uranium exploring activities before 2013. Later on, they saw regular aircraft flying over their villages without their knowledge and when they asked, the Kwamtoro division officer...told them that they were exploring uranium without warning the villagers that they would be evicted soon. “Since we received this directive in 2013, the government has never issued another directive that assures us to continue living peacefully here. We live in fear because we don’t know the fate of our land,” he said.
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