If they are sleeping this will wake them up: Thanks Sam Andema
Herdsmen cause fracas in West Nile News Written by RICHARD DRASIMAKU Monday, 20 April 2009 06:11 ARUA-There is a security breakdown in some parts of West Nile that has been caused by rising tension between local people and nomadic pastoralists. Some of the pastoralists are said to be armed. A soldier, Private Twebaze Katoto, was on April 2, stoned to death by villagers of Jafurunga in Kucwiny Sub-county, Nebbi District, who mistook him to be a pastoralist. In a tense joint security meeting chaired by Arua RDC, Maj. Ibrahim Abiringa four days after the incident, Arua District officials accused their Nebbi counterparts of failing to stop the cattle keepers from entering the region with large herds of cattle. There are allegations that Luiji Candini, the Secretary for Security of Arua District, and the Ajia LC-III Chairman, Alekua Santore, accepted inducements to facilitate the settlement of the cattle keepers. But Chandini told the closed-door meeting that he was only given Shs50,000 by the Arua District Internal Security Officer (DISO), Jero Mugarura, who owns a large herd of cattle in Arivu Sub-county. He said the DISO was planning to acquire more grazing land in the neighbouring Ofaka Sub-county. Candini repeated the remarks during a public rally organised by the Minister of State Minister for Transport, Simon Ejua, at Ajia Sub-county a day later. “The DISO [gave] Shs50, 000 only, which money I used to drink with women,” he said, throwing the crowd into laughter. “As for the [alleged] millions being talked about, [you] ask Santore,” he said as he passed on the microphone to the LC-III chairman. But Santore told the crowd to ask the LC-I officials in the concerned areas, prompting jeers from the irritated listeners. He also wondered why authorities in Nebbi don’t stop pastoralists from entering the region. The cattle keepers enter West Nile through Pakwach in Nebbi. But the RDC of Nebbi, Betty Akech, reportedly told the April 6 security meeting that Nebbi’s role was to simply provide security for the cattle keepers from Pakwach up to the border with Arua. “Where they go next is not our duty,” Aketch is quoted as saying. The Arua DISO, Mugarura, has also defended himself and other pastoralists saying that the Constitution allows any Ugandan to settle anywhere they want.. During the Ajia public rally, residents wondered why the cattle keepers were settling only in areas tipped for petroleum exploration. This has raised suspicion that the pastoralists have hidden economic interests camouflaged as a search for pasture and water. The pastoralists are also accused of moving large herds of cattle despite quarantine by the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries over the foot and mouth disease. Prior to the Monday, April 6 meeting, authorities in Nebbi had recovered 11 guns and several pieces of army uniform alleged to have been used by some pastoralists to intimidate local people. However, the West Nile Army Spokesman, Capt. Peter Mugisha, told The Observer that illegal guns in Nebbi are hired by the business people from the lawless Eastern DR Congo at Shs700, 000. “When these [guns] get into the hands of ill-intentioned people like UPDF deserters, they use them to terrorise our people,” he said. He appealed for increased vigilance and co-operation by civilians to stop the proliferation of small arms in West Nile. \n drasim...@yahoo.com --- On Mon, 20/4/09, Gilbert Adibo <adibo2...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Gilbert Adibo <adibo2...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Re: WestNileNet Digest, Vol 8, Issue 67 To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <westnilenet@kym.net> Date: Monday, 20 April, 2009, 6:41 PM Hey Guys, Is fatique setting in, not withstanding our normal commitments? Gilbert On 20/04/2009, JohnAJackson <javud...@gmail.com> wrote: Many Voices but No Voices Heard Ladies and gentlemen, In an earlier post last week I had aluded to the fact that we need to organize ourselves into a tangible/functioning/definable body. I agree with Gilbert that our ideas have to go somewhere or else they end up no where. We have a lot of talents, nearly in every domain of education. For us to transform these wonderful ideas we post on this forum into action plans, we need to have consorted mechanism for communicating these ideas to our local leaders/admistrators. Secondly we need to coordinate these ideas into a usable format. We need to strike a collaborative working relationship, team building and camaradee approach in working with our local administrators so that they do not perceive us as a threat. Our mission and vision is simple: Better servcies & Sustanianble community development. Mr Andema had posted a name " West Nile Development Forum". Correct me if I am wrong. Why can't we have a thorough discussion on this issue. Is it feasible and doable? How do we go about formulating and organizing this? Do we agree or disagree? I have to repeat myself one more time. If we do not have a structured way of communing our ideas, ideals, vision, mission to the local people, how do these ideas get implemented? This forum has been a perfect tool for gathering us where we live, around the globe. Talking about issues affecting West Nile region and our communities. The bottom line is, how can we get these ideas to the people who are the ultimate benefectors? How long shall we continue just talking without action plans? Let's engage ourselves and have debate on how we can organize ourselves in a formal way. John J Avudria On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:00 AM, <westnilenet-requ...@kym.net> wrote: Send WestNileNet mailing list submissions to westnile...@kym.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to westnilenet-requ...@kym.net You can reach the person managing the list at westnilenet-ow...@kym.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of WestNileNet digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Fwd: (Gilbert Adibo) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:10:51 +0400 From: Gilbert Adibo <adibo2...@gmail.com> Subject: [WestNileNet] Fwd: To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <westnilenet@kym.net> Message-ID: <3144a0e40904200010w56e6e419jb93dc9dab3ede...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Fr. George, http://www.independent.co.ug/index.php/column/opinion/782-patriotism-classes-are-an-exercise-in-futility Here is the article link. Cheers! Gilbert Adibo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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