Everywhere you go in Kampala there are painted and scrawled and stenciled signs telling people that the land is not for sale. In the same numbers there are signs for property agents in case you want to buy some land.
Even Chinese workers here on contracts are buying land as an investment. I wonder why when there’s a ‘not for sale’ sign that the landowner always puts their phone number. I suspect everything is for sale at the right price.
There is a feeling that we’re in the middle of a land grab at the moment – everyone who has any spare cash it buying a bit of Uganda.
Everyone I have met seems to have a bit of land, often in a village on the outskirts of the city and there is talk of crooks trying to get their hands on your land if you don’t have someone there to look after it.
If you leave it unattended, there’s a danger that someone will start to build on it and then claim it as their own. Frightening stuff.