Uganda, May 1 -- Government through the Ministry of Lands, Housing, and Urban Development (MLHUD), is pushing for suspension of conversion of government land from leasehold to freehold tenure.

The revelation comes after Uganda Land Commission (ULC) chairperson Prof. Nyeko Pen-Mogi sounded an alarm to the lands minister Judith Nabakooba that they are losing a lot of government land through that process, with the most applications coming from top government offices.

In the new arrangement, the minister now wants to regulate these transactions, suggesting that even if someone has a leasehold title that extends up to 99 years, they will not be granted freehold title.

"If someone gets a leasehold title, then it becomes their land. We cannot...