Flavia Munaaba, minister of state for water told Xinhua in an interview here on Friday that following the normal court system delays and yet the environment is degraded at a fast rate.
“We are negotiating with the judiciary to have environmental courts in place. We are talking about issues of personnel and financing,” she said.
“In the ordinary court system, there is a lot of bureaucracy and yet environmental matters need to be sorted on the spot,” she added.
She said an environmental police unit is already in place to arrest the perpetrators.
The move to push for establishment of environmental courts follows the rapid degradation of the environment in the East African country. The rapid population growth, according to experts has forced people to settle and farm in wetlands and clear forests.
Government has also come up with other measures like canceling all land titles where wetlands are located.
Munaaba said government has started restoring wetlands in some parts of the country.
“A total of 443.4km wetland boundaries have been demarcated in 16 districts. A total of 689.2ha of degraded wetland sections have been restored in the districts,” she said. Enditem
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