Displaced Bakiga resettled in Kamwenge

By Geresom MusamaliGOVERNMENT has resettled over 1,000 Ugandans, most of them Bakiga, in Kamwenge district.The settlers were expelled from Tanzania last year.Each household was given at least two acres of land for cultivation as well as seed and other farm tools.Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Disaster Preparedness Brig. Moses Ali yesterday said 1,268 out of the 2,800 people expelled in December 2000, have been resettled at Kahuge Refugee Camp in Kamwenge.Ali was briefing the Italian ambassador, Maurizio Teucci, after the embassy donated 7,500 litres of diesel to facilitate the transfer of the displaced people from Kikagati where they had temporarily been accommodated. Ali said Rwandese refugees originally occupied the camp but voluntarily returned to their country in 1994, leaving 45 square-miles of land vacant.He said 90% of the people expelled from Tanzania were Bakiga who left Uganda in the the 1940s due to population pressure in their respective areas.