Kibaale To Oust Bakiga

Mar 22, 2002

THE Bunyoro parliamentary committee has recommended that all the Bakiga who entered Kibaale district illegally be removed.

By Amlan Tumusiime THE Bunyoro parliamentary committee has recommended that all the Bakiga who entered Kibaale district illegally be removed.The MPs said the Bakiga who were brought into the district by the government should be allowed to stay.They were meeting the parliamentary probe committee chaired by the National Political Commissar, Dr. Crispus Kiyonga at the parliamentary building on Tuesday night. The committee was appointed recently by President Museveni to investigate the ethnic clashes between the Banyoro and the Bakiga in the district.A source that attended the meeting told The new Vision on Wednesday that the MPs also expressed concern over the people who come as refugees but end up seeking political power.The source said MPs told Kiyonga’s committee that the problem of refugees seeking for political power was not only in Kibaale district, but the entire Bunyoro region.“These cases are also in Kibanda in Masindi district,” the source said.Ends

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