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'We Will Deport Congolese'

The Monitor (Kampala)
NEWS
October 19, 2004
Posted to the web October 18, 2004

By Jonathan Akweteireho
Masindi
The district has unanimously resolved to continue registering and deporting
Congolese, contrary to orders by the first deputy premier, Lt. Gen. Moses Ali.
Ali, recently stopped the exercise, saying authorities in Masindi and Hoima
were also expelling the Alur of Uganda.
The council said Ali, being from west Nile, had no moral authority to judge
rightly.
The district vice Chairperson, Mr Solomon Kaahwa said Ali had suggested a
discussion, but later ordered them to stop the exercise.
"By the time we reached his office, he had already sent the message to his
Alurs. This is absurd because the Congolese are a problem,Ali also knows this,"
he said.
The female councillor for Budongo, Ms Peggy Mbabazi, said the Congolese had
promised to poison Lake Albert and kill LCs, should they be forced to leave.
After the deportation was stopped, many of them returned and have been arrested
with hundreds of knives, bows and arrows.
The Congolese who fled lawlessness in their country have also refused to comply
to Uganda's environmental concerns. Many of them have occupied Murchison Falls
National Park game reserves and recently held several celebrations following
the Moses Ali decision. They held effigies of the assistant RDC Mr. Kato
Matanda and the area LCIII boss Mr. Maritabu.
Meanwhile, armed herdsmen have been sighted in the game reserves, the district
youth councillor Mr Godfrey Mwijakubi has claimed.

   

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