News in brief
Jun 19, 2008
<b>UPC reaches out to Atubo</b><br>LIRA - Leaders of the Uganda People Congress (UPC) in Teso and Lango sub-regions have urged the lands minister, Daniel Omara Atubo and MPs Ben Wacha and Cecilia Ogwal to rejoin the party.
UPC reaches out to Atubo
LIRA - Leaders of the Uganda People Congress (UPC) in Teso and Lango sub-regions have urged the lands minister, Daniel Omara Atubo and MPs Ben Wacha and Cecilia Ogwal to rejoin the party. The three politicians belonged to the UPC, but they left after crying foul in the party primaries in the 2006 parliamentary elections. Omara signed a memorandum of understanding with the NRM, while Wacha and Ogwal have made a similar pact with the FDC. Addressing journalists at Pacific Grand Hotel on Wednesday, Julius Ocen, the Amuria LC5 chairman, said division among UPC members had affected the party’s chances of taking state power. “We want to reconcile with Atubo, Ogwal and Wacha because they are strong politicians, who would push the party’s political agenda,†Ocen said. “We can’t invest in them and just let them go like that.â€
Plant trees, MP to IDPs
GULU - The district Woman MP, Betty Aol Ocan, has urged people returning from camps to plant trees. Launching a tree-planting project on Monday in Koro sub-county, Ocan said the exercise would check on desertification. “We are witnessing changes in our weather due to deforestation, which must be reversed by planting more trees and cutting few.†She distributed tree seedlings to 300 members of the Grassroots Women Association for Development.
400 trained in rights
GULU - Human Rights Focus, an NGO, has recruited and trained 480 rights volunteers in all the parishes in the Acholi sub-region. Goretti Okello Odoki, the deputy director, said 124 volunteers were recruited in Gulu and Amuru districts, 185 in Kitgum and 150 in Pader. “We shall give them bicycles to enable them sensitise their communities on human rights.†The project is funded by the Foundation for Human Rights, a Swedish NGO and the Royal Embassy in Kampala.
LIRA - Leaders of the Uganda People Congress (UPC) in Teso and Lango sub-regions have urged the lands minister, Daniel Omara Atubo and MPs Ben Wacha and Cecilia Ogwal to rejoin the party. The three politicians belonged to the UPC, but they left after crying foul in the party primaries in the 2006 parliamentary elections. Omara signed a memorandum of understanding with the NRM, while Wacha and Ogwal have made a similar pact with the FDC. Addressing journalists at Pacific Grand Hotel on Wednesday, Julius Ocen, the Amuria LC5 chairman, said division among UPC members had affected the party’s chances of taking state power. “We want to reconcile with Atubo, Ogwal and Wacha because they are strong politicians, who would push the party’s political agenda,†Ocen said. “We can’t invest in them and just let them go like that.â€
Plant trees, MP to IDPs
GULU - The district Woman MP, Betty Aol Ocan, has urged people returning from camps to plant trees. Launching a tree-planting project on Monday in Koro sub-county, Ocan said the exercise would check on desertification. “We are witnessing changes in our weather due to deforestation, which must be reversed by planting more trees and cutting few.†She distributed tree seedlings to 300 members of the Grassroots Women Association for Development.
400 trained in rights
GULU - Human Rights Focus, an NGO, has recruited and trained 480 rights volunteers in all the parishes in the Acholi sub-region. Goretti Okello Odoki, the deputy director, said 124 volunteers were recruited in Gulu and Amuru districts, 185 in Kitgum and 150 in Pader. “We shall give them bicycles to enable them sensitise their communities on human rights.†The project is funded by the Foundation for Human Rights, a Swedish NGO and the Royal Embassy in Kampala.