700 UPDF deployed to check rustling

Aug 26, 2003

THE UPDF has deployed 700 soldiers in Kapchorwa to ensure that Karimojong and Pokot cattle rustlers do not infiltrate the district.

By Rashid Muzungyo

THE UPDF has deployed 700 soldiers in Kapchorwa to ensure that Karimojong and Pokot cattle rustlers do not infiltrate the district.

The resident district commissioner, Tezira Jamwa, recently told the Mufti, Sheikh Ramadhan Mubajje who was touring the district, that the deployment had scared off the warriors who had been sneaking in small number to steal animals.

Jamwa said the deployment was effected by army as part of the Government’s responsibility to provide citizens with adequate security following an April 11 2003 attack of Suam sub-county, where Kenyan Pokot killed about 30 people.

About 3,000 people were displaced as a result of the attack.

Jamwa said the soldiers are expected to strengthen local defence forces and homeguards conducting border.

“The Government deployed 700 soldiers in Kapchorwa in May to reinforce LDUs and homeguards who had a thin force on ground to fight this problem,” Jamwa said.

“For the last three months, there has been no insecurity because there is a force in place,” Jamwa told Sheikh Mubajje who was accompanied by a delegation of officials from Uganda Muslim Supreme Council.

Jamwa said the Government was
doing everything possible to
ensure that rustling was permanently stopped.

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