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Gen Nyakairima Warns IDPs Against Resettlement

The Monitor (Kampala)
NEWS
14 August 2007
Posted to the web 14 August 2007

By Jimmy Kwo
Kitgum
THE army has advised internally displaced persons in Acholi sub-region not to
return to their homes before the comprehensive Juba Peace Agreement is signed.
General Aronda Nyakairima, the chief of defence forces, instead advised the
IDPs, living in numerous camps in the region to go to satellite camps at parish
level, as was recently recommended by the district disaster management and
security committees.
"On the issue of decongestion, we (UPDF) are advising that before the peace
agreement is signed, we must go slowly on the decongestion process," he said.
The army member of Parliament, Maj Gen Julius Oketa delivered Gen Nyakairima's
message to IDPs during the Open Day at Kitgum High School, over the weekend.
Gen Nyakairima however said the displaced persons could only go to their
homesteads to prepare land for cultivation and build some houses but must
return the transiting camps in the evenings.
Nyakairima, an old boy of the school said because the army belives in
"comprehensive security" it is cautious against hurried resettlement. The
Commissioner for Secondary Education Francis Agula said the ministry would work
with the police to fight teachers who defile pupils.

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