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Reliable sources suggest that there will be 45
"unprotected camps" that will incarcerate the Acoli population, to
enable us to provide abundant arable land and slave
labour.
Think!!!
KNO
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Subject: ugnet_: Reason for confining
Acoli in camps!
The land. Read
on.
Ochan
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Security
Production Programme could be dangerous venture
I have come across
a concept paper entitled Security and Production Programme (SPP), which was
circulated during a public dialogue on conflict resolution for northern
Uganda, held on July 22, 2003 at the Nile Hotel International Conference
Centre.
Apparently, SSP is a government proposal for implementation in
the near future.
According to the paper, SPP is a strategic plan to counter
insecurity in the Acholi sub-region.
SPP, according to the paper,
envisages transforming Internally Displaced People's Camps (IDPs) into
Ujama-type-villages by establishing block farms known as security and
production units (SPUs) around each camp.
It details out maize, beans,
upland rice and sorghum as some of the crops the displaced persons are to grow
for their survival and as a source of income.
The programme also
targets 800,000 people (the entire population of Gulu, Kitgum and
Pader).
The SPP looks attractive for donor funding and may be applauded
by Ugandans who have little regard for the rights of IDPs.
It is
important, however, to note that the Ujama project did not work in Tanzania
where people moved voluntarily to the camps.
A similar project was
tried out by Obote 1 but failed. Besides, the Acholi hate IDPs to the
neck.
I therefore recommend to whoever is concerned that before SPP is
implemented, it should be thoroughly debated by Gulu, Kitgum and Pader
district councils to generate consensus among the population on how it can be
best be implemented, lest it faces resentment and the anticipated benefit
lost.
The SPP if not well understood by the population risks being
perceived as a plot to keep Acholi permanently in camps and this could
escalate the rebellion.
Richard Komakech
Balmoi,
MUK
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