Former IDPs to exhume bodies
Sep 19, 2009
FORMER Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Odek sub-county, Gulu district have been asked to exhume bodies of people buried in the camps to pave way for AVSI, an Italian NGO, to develop the land.
By Denis Ojwee
FORMER Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Odek sub-county, Gulu district have been asked to exhume bodies of people buried in the camps to pave way for AVSI, an Italian NGO, to develop the land.
The LC3 chairman, Mathew Olobo, made the appeal while addressing residents who witnessed the hand over of Odek Health Center III and staff houses constructed under the Northern Uganda Transition Initiative (NUTI).
NUTI, a non-governmental organisation funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), renovated the health centre and built the staff residences at sh178m.
“We need to start meaningful developmental activities like putting up infrastructure and cultivation since the IDPs have vacated the area,†Olobo said.
The camp was a home to 30,000 IDPs since 1996 during the LRA war led by Joseph Kony.
The USAID deputy country director, John Garton, said: “This is a place that had been forgotten probably because it is the place where Kony hails from. We want the people of this area to focus towards a positive look of this place.â€
Gulu district LC5 vice chairman Mcmot Kitara flanked by Omoro MP Simon Too-Lit Akecha received the buildings on behalf of the local government.
FORMER Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Odek sub-county, Gulu district have been asked to exhume bodies of people buried in the camps to pave way for AVSI, an Italian NGO, to develop the land.
The LC3 chairman, Mathew Olobo, made the appeal while addressing residents who witnessed the hand over of Odek Health Center III and staff houses constructed under the Northern Uganda Transition Initiative (NUTI).
NUTI, a non-governmental organisation funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), renovated the health centre and built the staff residences at sh178m.
“We need to start meaningful developmental activities like putting up infrastructure and cultivation since the IDPs have vacated the area,†Olobo said.
The camp was a home to 30,000 IDPs since 1996 during the LRA war led by Joseph Kony.
The USAID deputy country director, John Garton, said: “This is a place that had been forgotten probably because it is the place where Kony hails from. We want the people of this area to focus towards a positive look of this place.â€
Gulu district LC5 vice chairman Mcmot Kitara flanked by Omoro MP Simon Too-Lit Akecha received the buildings on behalf of the local government.