The government has ordered all artisanal miners in Kisiita Gold Mine in Kassanda District to vacate.
Over 3000 miners are expected to vacate the mines before the elapse of the six month’s deadline, which expires in November this year, a move aimed at allowing the government to hand over the mines to the company licenced to operate it, named as the Kisiita Mining Company.
Phoebe Namulindwa, the Kasanda Resident District Commissioner, says that they are under instructions from the president to evict all the people from the mining site.
She says that some artisanal miners have started vacating the gold mines while others are still going about their work.
Kasanda District Woman Member of Parliament, Flavia Nabagabe Kalule wants the government to first put up an infrastructure where they are relocating the miners and compensate them.
