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Thanks for your deeply concern of what is happening inside Lado and
for bringing the information to the Office of the Green Bureau of the
KingdomState of Lado . The Situation is in the Office being handled at
all levels . We continue to fight for our due Rights till we are free
. The incidences like below is not a singularly occassion but the
whole root crisis is in the Iceberg Uganda Government is playing on us
the People of Lado as this Region West Nile - Arua of Lado was left
and to be administered by Uganda for the British whilst the other
Regions of Lado are Under Sudan / ( South Sudan ) and the Republic of
Democratic Congo . Similar cases of torture and kinllings are
practised in a similar manner in the Sudan / South Sudan and Republic
of Democratic Congo .
A picture Map and writings of and on Lado " the Enclaved land " in
Africa by wikipedia - enyclipedia :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lado_Enclave
And take a look too on the writing work for Records on Lado Freedom
Issue Independence in Africa fighting for it till now and on forwards
for our future generations to continue : The Colonial Occupiers rule
by Proxy by forcing Lado People under administration of Uganda, DR
Congo and Sudan since 1947 till to date (2013 ) AND WHO KNOWS TILL
WHEN , IS OUR WORRY STILL , AND WE NEVER ARE GIVING UP FIGHTING FOR
OUR FREEDOM IN OUR BELOVED MOTHER CONTINENT AFRICA .
http://www.npi-news.dk/page37.htm
Ronald
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Akua Serwaah <akuas.tree@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 05:49:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: another family member ? Arua news uganda - NDUVUNDUVU
To: "okuonzir@gmail.com" <okuonzir@gmail.com>
Arua residents flee to Congo over clashes Publish Date: Jul 01, 2013
Vurra County MP Sam Okuonzi
newvisionBy Richard Drasimaku
Over 600 residents of Opia and Ayavu parishes in Vurra sub county, Arua
district have fled to Congo following a fierce clan fighting over land.
At least 207 huts were torched during the attack.
The parishes were raided on three occasions between Saturday and
Wednesday last week by a rival community from Pajuru parish in Arivu Sub
County who claim the residents had settled on their land.
They burnt 75 houses in Ayavu and 132 in Opia, and looted animals,
bicycles and other valuable household items including food stuff
according to Daniel Avutia, the Opia parish chief who said most of those
who ran to Congo were women and children.
Only iron roofed houses survived the arson, but the occupants also
fled out of fears.
One resident said the first attack was carried out at night and the
last one in broad daylight in the morning.
He revealed that when they called Modest Oguzu the O/C of Ojupala police
post for help, he told them that police was fed up of the unending
dispute and that they would only go to collect dead bodies after the
fighting is over.
This infuriated the people who suspected the police to be conniving
with the Pajuru attackers.
"Some people organized themselves with bows and arrows to attack and
destroy the police post. Oguzu was shot with arrow in the raid. Then
they laid an ambush for the invaders in which they shot over ten of them
including a uniformed UPDF deserter who later died in hospital," he
narrated.
Following the fierce fighting some children fled with their mothers to
their uncles as the men remained behind vowing never to surrender any
piece of their land.
Faustino Ejua, 36, a village health team member in Ewavini village while
wielding a bow and arrows which he calls his machines says he now
sleeps under a tree near his burnt houses.
He lost the VHT bicycle during the destructive attack which has also
left him with only a trouser and a torn shirt.
"They burnt four houses including my brother's. 15 of my family members
have run to Congo but for me I take cover with my machines there," he
said while pointing at an old fig tree.
Majority of the women come in the morning to collect food from the
garden and trek back to Congo in the evening but some residents have
started recuperating and are beginning to reroof their houses.
The fighting has also led to the closure of Oyo and Opia primary schools
since the children are either in exile or those who ran to nearby
relatives lost their scholastic materials and uniforms in the inferno.
Raymond Ombere, the Arua municipal inspector of schools is coordinating
the people from the affected area who are working at the district or
outside to mobilize funds for buying scholastic materials for the
children, poles and grass to help the affected people rebuild their
houses.
He called on those in exile to return home saying they should take the
disaster like they have fallen down and thus get up to rebuild their
lives.
The area is being patrolled by a combined team of police and UPDF
soldiers but residents say they no longer trust them after their initial
complacency and because they only arrested their own people while
shielding their adversaries.
They have accused district officials including the chairman Sam Wadri
Nyakua and a businessman Samuel Ejidra, the proprietor of the Uzu
Brothers enterprise of fraudulently acquiring land in the contested area
saying this had compromised the ability of local leaders to objectively
intervene in the dispute.
"It is true when I went to the land registry I found they have titles
for land there. I also went to surveys and mapping department in Entebbe
and found that these people did not even go there, so where did they
get the map they were trying to use for demarcating the border?" the
Vurra county MP Sam Okuonzi said.
Okuonzi said the people of Pajuru, Opia and the newly created Ayavu
parishes have traditionally coexisted peacefully until speculators began
to wrongfully buy their land.
The ring leader allegedly orchestrating the land sales, the former
Arivu sub county LC3 chairman Alex Ondoga was reportedly intercepted by
police this week while leading a group of youths armed with arrows but
were simply disarmed and left to go free.
The West Nile police spokesperson Josephine Angucia said she did not
have enough information about the arrests.
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for bringing the information to the Office of the Green Bureau of the
KingdomState of Lado . The Situation is in the Office being handled at
all levels . We continue to fight for our due Rights till we are free
. The incidences like below is not a singularly occassion but the
whole root crisis is in the Iceberg Uganda Government is playing on us
the People of Lado as this Region West Nile - Arua of Lado was left
and to be administered by Uganda for the British whilst the other
Regions of Lado are Under Sudan / ( South Sudan ) and the Republic of
Democratic Congo . Similar cases of torture and kinllings are
practised in a similar manner in the Sudan / South Sudan and Republic
of Democratic Congo .
A picture Map and writings of and on Lado " the Enclaved land " in
Africa by wikipedia - enyclipedia :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lado_Enclave
And take a look too on the writing work for Records on Lado Freedom
Issue Independence in Africa fighting for it till now and on forwards
for our future generations to continue : The Colonial Occupiers rule
by Proxy by forcing Lado People under administration of Uganda, DR
Congo and Sudan since 1947 till to date (2013 ) AND WHO KNOWS TILL
WHEN , IS OUR WORRY STILL , AND WE NEVER ARE GIVING UP FIGHTING FOR
OUR FREEDOM IN OUR BELOVED MOTHER CONTINENT AFRICA .
http://www.npi-news.dk/page37.htm
Ronald
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Akua Serwaah <akuas.tree@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 05:49:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: another family member ? Arua news uganda - NDUVUNDUVU
To: "okuonzir@gmail.com" <okuonzir@gmail.com>
Arua residents flee to Congo over clashes Publish Date: Jul 01, 2013
Vurra County MP Sam Okuonzi
newvisionBy Richard Drasimaku
Over 600 residents of Opia and Ayavu parishes in Vurra sub county, Arua
district have fled to Congo following a fierce clan fighting over land.
At least 207 huts were torched during the attack.
The parishes were raided on three occasions between Saturday and
Wednesday last week by a rival community from Pajuru parish in Arivu Sub
County who claim the residents had settled on their land.
They burnt 75 houses in Ayavu and 132 in Opia, and looted animals,
bicycles and other valuable household items including food stuff
according to Daniel Avutia, the Opia parish chief who said most of those
who ran to Congo were women and children.
Only iron roofed houses survived the arson, but the occupants also
fled out of fears.
One resident said the first attack was carried out at night and the
last one in broad daylight in the morning.
He revealed that when they called Modest Oguzu the O/C of Ojupala police
post for help, he told them that police was fed up of the unending
dispute and that they would only go to collect dead bodies after the
fighting is over.
This infuriated the people who suspected the police to be conniving
with the Pajuru attackers.
"Some people organized themselves with bows and arrows to attack and
destroy the police post. Oguzu was shot with arrow in the raid. Then
they laid an ambush for the invaders in which they shot over ten of them
including a uniformed UPDF deserter who later died in hospital," he
narrated.
Following the fierce fighting some children fled with their mothers to
their uncles as the men remained behind vowing never to surrender any
piece of their land.
Faustino Ejua, 36, a village health team member in Ewavini village while
wielding a bow and arrows which he calls his machines says he now
sleeps under a tree near his burnt houses.
He lost the VHT bicycle during the destructive attack which has also
left him with only a trouser and a torn shirt.
"They burnt four houses including my brother's. 15 of my family members
have run to Congo but for me I take cover with my machines there," he
said while pointing at an old fig tree.
Majority of the women come in the morning to collect food from the
garden and trek back to Congo in the evening but some residents have
started recuperating and are beginning to reroof their houses.
The fighting has also led to the closure of Oyo and Opia primary schools
since the children are either in exile or those who ran to nearby
relatives lost their scholastic materials and uniforms in the inferno.
Raymond Ombere, the Arua municipal inspector of schools is coordinating
the people from the affected area who are working at the district or
outside to mobilize funds for buying scholastic materials for the
children, poles and grass to help the affected people rebuild their
houses.
He called on those in exile to return home saying they should take the
disaster like they have fallen down and thus get up to rebuild their
lives.
The area is being patrolled by a combined team of police and UPDF
soldiers but residents say they no longer trust them after their initial
complacency and because they only arrested their own people while
shielding their adversaries.
They have accused district officials including the chairman Sam Wadri
Nyakua and a businessman Samuel Ejidra, the proprietor of the Uzu
Brothers enterprise of fraudulently acquiring land in the contested area
saying this had compromised the ability of local leaders to objectively
intervene in the dispute.
"It is true when I went to the land registry I found they have titles
for land there. I also went to surveys and mapping department in Entebbe
and found that these people did not even go there, so where did they
get the map they were trying to use for demarcating the border?" the
Vurra county MP Sam Okuonzi said.
Okuonzi said the people of Pajuru, Opia and the newly created Ayavu
parishes have traditionally coexisted peacefully until speculators began
to wrongfully buy their land.
The ring leader allegedly orchestrating the land sales, the former
Arivu sub county LC3 chairman Alex Ondoga was reportedly intercepted by
police this week while leading a group of youths armed with arrows but
were simply disarmed and left to go free.
The West Nile police spokesperson Josephine Angucia said she did not
have enough information about the arrests.
--
UAH forum is devoted to matters of interest to Ugandans and Africans in general. Individuals are responsible for whatever they post on this forum.To unsubscribe from this group, send email to: ugandans-at-heart+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com or Abbey Semuwemba at: abbeysemuwemba@gmail.com.
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