The world War veterans from Kyaggwe on Monday 28th January 2019 met with Speaker Rebecca Kadaga to table their petitions about their unpaid gratuity.
The Ex servicemen under their leader Andrew Kasumba also appealed to the government to look into matters of the land that was given to them by the Queen of England after World War II.
They told the Speaker that on 15 January 1945, during a meeting held in Nairobi by British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and representatives from Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika, the Queen of England allocated land, in appreciation, to people that participated in the war.
The petitioners included fighters, spouses and heirs of fighters in World War I and II.
According to Kasumba, over 290 ex-servicemen from Kyaggwe were allocated 13.6 square miles of land in Bwebereeza, Gangu and each of them was meant to get 30 acres.
He said “After the World War, a meeting was held in Nairobi where the Queen of England gave land as appreciation to people that participated in the war, but this land was never received.”
The petitioners said that their efforts to get this land have been frustrated by the National Forestry Reserve Authority which claimed part of it as a forest.
The Speaker promised to convene a meeting with the Attorney General and the Minister of Finance to resolve the concerns of the war veterans saying that it was an urgent matter that needed to be resolved in the shortest time.