Pallisa residents, MPs meet over new boundaries
Aug 05, 2005
A GROUP of people from Pallisa residing in Kampala, Entebbe and Jinja, have demanded that the district be divided according to the traditional county boundaries to create Budaka district.
By Patrick Jaramogi
A GROUP of people from Pallisa residing in Kampala, Entebbe and Jinja, have demanded that the district be divided according to the traditional county boundaries to create Budaka district.
In a meeting with the Butebo and Pallisa MPs, Stephen Malinga and Louis Opange respectively at the Uganda Management Institute on Tuesday, they vowed never to accept parts of Butebo to be annexed to Budaka district as proposed.
Parliament deferred the approval of Budaka district following controversy over Kabwangasi and Kakoro sub-counties that had been proposed to be transferred from Butebo to the new district.
Opange and Malinga vehemently opposed the annexing of the two sub-counties to Budaka and want Budaka and Kibuku counties form Budaka district, while Pallisa and Butebo counties remain in Pallisa district.
“We have been marginalised for so long. We are fed up of these tribal sentiments. Enough is enough. let the district be divided so that we can also benefit,†Opange said.
He added, “I am in the ‘bus’ but I am standing near the doorway. If things don’t go as we want, I will jump out of the bus with my ticket.â€
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A GROUP of people from Pallisa residing in Kampala, Entebbe and Jinja, have demanded that the district be divided according to the traditional county boundaries to create Budaka district.
In a meeting with the Butebo and Pallisa MPs, Stephen Malinga and Louis Opange respectively at the Uganda Management Institute on Tuesday, they vowed never to accept parts of Butebo to be annexed to Budaka district as proposed.
Parliament deferred the approval of Budaka district following controversy over Kabwangasi and Kakoro sub-counties that had been proposed to be transferred from Butebo to the new district.
Opange and Malinga vehemently opposed the annexing of the two sub-counties to Budaka and want Budaka and Kibuku counties form Budaka district, while Pallisa and Butebo counties remain in Pallisa district.
“We have been marginalised for so long. We are fed up of these tribal sentiments. Enough is enough. let the district be divided so that we can also benefit,†Opange said.
He added, “I am in the ‘bus’ but I am standing near the doorway. If things don’t go as we want, I will jump out of the bus with my ticket.â€
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