Danes offer demining equipment
Jan 30, 2008
THE Danish Demining Group has donated mine-detecting equipment worth $300,000 (about sh510m) to the National Mines Action Programme of Uganda.
By Dennis Ojwee
THE Danish Demining Group has donated mine-detecting equipment worth $300,000 (about sh510m) to the National Mines Action Programme of Uganda.
The operations manager, Aldo Anderson, said the equipment was delivered in December. He said the Danish government would this year donate sh1.3b to the demining of northern Uganda and resettlement of displaced persons.
The coordinator of the national mines action programme in the Prime Minister’s Office, Vincent Woboya, thanked the Danes for their support.
He said the equipment would boost the Government’s Peace Recovery and Development Programme, aimed at resettling displaced persons in the north.
Woboya said up to 49 experts were in the north to clean up the villages of mines so that displaced persons can safely go back home.
The Gulu team leader of the mine action programme, Emmy Katokore, revealed that the Danish offer included large loop detectors, mine lab detectors, magnetic locators, specific mines detectors and communication gadgets.
He said his team was composed of 39 mine experts from the Police, who would soon be joined by 20 more from the UPDF.
The Gulu district disaster preparedness committee recently said less than 5% of the total number of displaced persons in Acholi had returned home following the limping peace negotiations in Juba.
The Lord’s Resistance Army leader, Joseph Kony, on Wednesday made the situation more worrying when he cautioned the Acholi against leaving camps.
He was speaking on Mega FM radio.
THE Danish Demining Group has donated mine-detecting equipment worth $300,000 (about sh510m) to the National Mines Action Programme of Uganda.
The operations manager, Aldo Anderson, said the equipment was delivered in December. He said the Danish government would this year donate sh1.3b to the demining of northern Uganda and resettlement of displaced persons.
The coordinator of the national mines action programme in the Prime Minister’s Office, Vincent Woboya, thanked the Danes for their support.
He said the equipment would boost the Government’s Peace Recovery and Development Programme, aimed at resettling displaced persons in the north.
Woboya said up to 49 experts were in the north to clean up the villages of mines so that displaced persons can safely go back home.
The Gulu team leader of the mine action programme, Emmy Katokore, revealed that the Danish offer included large loop detectors, mine lab detectors, magnetic locators, specific mines detectors and communication gadgets.
He said his team was composed of 39 mine experts from the Police, who would soon be joined by 20 more from the UPDF.
The Gulu district disaster preparedness committee recently said less than 5% of the total number of displaced persons in Acholi had returned home following the limping peace negotiations in Juba.
The Lord’s Resistance Army leader, Joseph Kony, on Wednesday made the situation more worrying when he cautioned the Acholi against leaving camps.
He was speaking on Mega FM radio.