UPDF to Expand Artillery School
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New Vision (Kampala)
October 26, 2004
Posted to the web October 26, 2004
Kyetume Kasanga
Kampala
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said the Government will degazette part of Bugungu Wildlife Reserve in Buliisa county, Masindi district, to allow for the expansion of the School of Artillery and Air Defence at Butiaba.
Museveni stressed the importance of field and air fire power in the security of the country.
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He was recently responding to a request by the acting Field Artillery Division commander, Lt. Col. Fred Mugisha, for more land for the school.
Museveni passed out 844 officers and other ranks of the UPDF Field Artillery and Air Defence at Butiaba. They had separately completed eight-month courses in nine disciplines, seven of which were in the field of artillery and two in air defence.
Mugisha said the 700 hectares of land donated by Masindi district and Biiso sub-county authorities to kick-start the school was insufficient due to the long artillery range. He asked that part of the nearby wildlife reserve be degazetted for effective training.
"We are not going to fail to get land, that is just impossible, especially if it is not a national park. But if it is a wildlife reserve, we shall see," Museveni said.
He said construction of modern structures at the Butiaba base would begin next year.
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Museveni said Masindi, which accommodates about 70,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) from the north, would soon start benefiting from the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund.
District leaders had complained that the Fund was not benefiting the IDPs.
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