‘We shall not suddenly evict anybody from Ntawo land, whether bona fide or not," UCU Vice Chancellor Prof Stephen Noll has clarified.

Media reports last week indicated that UCU was evicting over 800 squatters from the Ntawo land.
Noll also said that these press reports linking UCU to the mistreatment of squatters have been peddled by some politicians who are looking for an opportunity to incite residents.
UCU got a Charter to operate as a university in 2004; this gave UCU the university a corporate status.
Earlier in 2003, UCU Holdings was registered in Uganda to hold the university land prior to chattering.
Later the Holdings Company was directed to make profits for the University since the latter is a not for making profit company.
"We asked UCU Holdings, the company that owns the land in Ntawo to look at ways of developing the land so as to find other means of generating revenue for the University instead of relying on students' fee for operations," Stephen Noll said last week in his office.
Some squatters have been in the land for over 12 years, making them bona fide occupants, while others have only recently.
At a stakeholders meeting at Ntawo last week, the operations manager for UCU Holdings, Reuben Tumwebaze Byaruhanga spoke to the residents and said that there were three options to solving the standoff between UCU Holdings and the squatters.
Eviction from the land was not one of those options.
"The land belongs to UCU Holdings in partnership with you, we want to develop this land together with you, its lawful occupants but first we need to do an assessment study of every one regardless of how long they have been here," Tumwebaze said.
He also added that the squatters would be given an opportunity to sell the land that they occupy to UCU Holdings at the prevailing market rate after both the seller and buyer agree amicably.
"If you don't want to sale, we can get you to be resettled with everything that you owned in its present state, but if you don't want either of the two options then we can also let you stay on the land undisturbed," he said.
The last option, however, requires that all people opting to remain on the land will acknowledge the fact that UCU Holdings still owns the land and in the event that they decide to sell off their property UCU Holdings will have to be notified about the transaction.
Some residents of Ntawo, however, are not willing to take up the first two options, preferring to stay in the land.
In large gatherings, the people of Ntawo speak in a common voice, but in small groups, they do not agree amongst themselves because some of the squatters have already been compensated and are ready to vacate the premises, but some of the other residents are speaking ill about the university's intentions to develop its own land.
Col Proscovia Nalweyiso of the UPDF is one of the squatters who have vowed not to vacate the place; she says she is just one of the lucky few to have a voice of their own.
"I was born here 54 years ago, I attended Bishop's Primary School and that's the same school that my father attended, he is buried here and was prayed for by Church of Uganda reverends that means our stay here was blessed but if these people want to evict me, I will not go away while seated," she said.
Land wrangles at Ntawo are not a new phenomenon; they have dragged on for many years, with many of the residents not knowing the true owners of the place.
"For us we know that this land belongs to Ham Mukasa, at one point we also knew the Church of Uganda, but now when you start saying UCU Holdings then we are lost," said an angry resident.
Noll pointed out that the land had been given originally by Hamu Mukasa to Bishop Tucker College now UCU.
The Church of Uganda held the land in trust and granted it to UCU and UCU Holding in 2003 and 2006.
UCU Holdings is seeking to develop this land in Ntawo so as to get alternative means of generating revenue to run the institution.
Last month public universities increased tuition for private sponsored students by about 40% because of the rising costs of living and governments unwillingness to keep sending exorbitant sums of money to keep the universities afloat.
  "Its ironical that the day that the story of UCU evicting squatters from Ntawo appeared in the press is the same day that public universities decided to hike tuition fees by over 40%. Students should realise that this company is trying to generate an alternative income stream for the University in order to keep fees as affordable as possible."
UCU intends to set up an "ultra modern village in Ntawo," according to Tumwebaze, the satellite village will have schools, hospitals, shopping centres, areas of worship and the school of Agriculture amongst others.