43rd Tarehe Sita: Armed with brooms, UPDF cleans Arua city
Feb 03, 2024
Other planned activities include cleaning of Arua city streets and the main market as well as a medical camp and blood donation drive.
The UPDF joined by Arua City leaders and other security agencies in cleaning the Regional Referal Hospital. (Photos by Robert Adiga)
Robert Adiga
Journalist @New Vision
__________________________ The UPDF returning from Arua Regional Refferfal Hospital after cleaning ahead of Tarehe Sita
With only days left to the 43rd Tarehe Sita anniversary main celebrations, the UPDF (Uganda's army) has placed health and sanitation at the heart of its buildup activities in Arua city.
On Friday, members of the military, armed with brooms, descended on Arua Regional Referral Hospital for a cleaning exercise alongside Arua city leaders, NRM cadres, and other security agencies.
The UPDF hailed the community members for participating and contributing to the five-year liberation struggle in the 1980s in different ways.
Other planned activities include cleaning of Arua city streets and the main market as well as a medical camp and blood donation drive.
This is the kind of thing that happens around the country every year in the days leading to the Tarehe Sita anniversary, aimed at galvanizing the bond between the military and civilian communities.
In the Swahili language, which is commonly used in the Ugandan military, tarehe sita means the sixth day of a month.
In this context, it refers to February 6, 1981, when a Yoweri Museveni-led insurgency against the Obote II government began with an attack on an army installation in Mubende district.
Five years later, the insurgency culminated in Uganda's liberation and the rise to power of the National Resistance Movement (NRM).
This year's 43rd Tarehe Sita anniversary main celebrations will be held in Bugweri district this coming Tuesday.
In Arua city, Lt Col Nathan Bainomugisha, the commander of the 409 Brigade, said their activities are a form of social corporate responsibility of appreciating the community for identifying with the UPDF during the liberation war.
He pledged the UPDF's commitment to consolidate their relationship with the citizens.
Sam Wadri Nyakua, the Arua city mayor, commended the UPDF and the stewardship of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for bringing sanity to Uganda and for exhibiting a high level of professionalism.
On his part, Arua resident city commissioner Charles Ichogor rallied the community members to join the UPDF fraternity in celebrating the army's victorious liberation struggle.
This year's celebrations are themed: 'Celebrating the people's struggle for unity, security and peace for socio-economic transformation.
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