Refugees warned on voter registration
Jun 17, 2010
REFUGEES in the country have been warned against registering as Ugandan voters for the general elections.
By Juliet Waiswa
REFUGEES in the country have been warned against registering as Ugandan voters for the general elections.
The executive director of Inter-Aid Uganda, Scholastica Nasinyama, gave the warning while adressing refugees during activities to launch the World Refugee’s Day celebrations at the Railway Park in Kampala. The day falls on Sunday.
Nasinyama said the number of refugees in Kampala had increased from 24,000 in January to over 32,000 in May, citing instability in countries like Somalia, DR Congo and Eritrea as the cause.
A senior officer in the Office of the Prime Minister, Titus Muhofah, who represented the disaster preparedness state minister, Musa Ecweru, said the Government had proposed that refugees be settled in camps with enough land to cultivate food.
Muhofah noted that Uganda has 143,000 registered refugees, of which over 30,000 are believed to be in the urban centres of Kampala and Jinja.
He also said the Government would equip refugees in urban centres with skills.
REFUGEES in the country have been warned against registering as Ugandan voters for the general elections.
The executive director of Inter-Aid Uganda, Scholastica Nasinyama, gave the warning while adressing refugees during activities to launch the World Refugee’s Day celebrations at the Railway Park in Kampala. The day falls on Sunday.
Nasinyama said the number of refugees in Kampala had increased from 24,000 in January to over 32,000 in May, citing instability in countries like Somalia, DR Congo and Eritrea as the cause.
A senior officer in the Office of the Prime Minister, Titus Muhofah, who represented the disaster preparedness state minister, Musa Ecweru, said the Government had proposed that refugees be settled in camps with enough land to cultivate food.
Muhofah noted that Uganda has 143,000 registered refugees, of which over 30,000 are believed to be in the urban centres of Kampala and Jinja.
He also said the Government would equip refugees in urban centres with skills.