Bush war spies to get free houses
Hamis Kaheru
and Moses Nsubuga
PEASANTS who participated in the 1981-86 National Resistance Army bush war are to get free permanent houses built by the army, President Yoweri Museveni said on Saturday.
The beneficiaries include prominent members of secret war committees, those who offered land for NRA camps and widows of fallen fighters. They are all in Luweero Triangle.
Museveni said the rest of the population would get permanent houses at reduced cost because free labour would be provided by the army.
�Your work will be to buy materials like cement, bricks and iron sheets. We can even transport some of the materials for you, especially those which are from Kampala. We may even consider a housing loan and you pay in small installments,� Museveni told the beneficiaries.
He launched the programme,
�Universal Improved Homestead accommodation,� at a rally at Kyamusisi Primary School in Mityana.
He handed over the
first
three houses to Mzee James Kasumba, John Sebunya and Kamada.
Sebunya and Kamada were chairpersons of secret war committees, while Kasumba hosted the NRA camp in which Museveni stayed on Christmas Day in 1984.
Museveni inaugurated Kyamusisi Memorial Site in memory of fallen NRA combatants. Kyamusisi route was used by NRA combatants to and from their bases in Singo and Bulemezi.
The site comprises a tomb containing the remains of Comrade Kityo, who died at Kyamusisi in 1983 in the company of Museveni.
The group was from a combat mission in kabamba, code-named �Safari 50.� Museveni and Army Commander Lt. Gen. Aronda Nyakairima laid wreaths on the tombs made from cement and tiles, constructed in a shed of maroon iron sheets.
�Kityo was shot accidentally in the buttocks. It was not by the enemy. It was by one of our soldiers who was ill-trained,� Museveni said, adding that Kityo was shot in Bigo Bya Mugyenyi.
�We brought him here on
our way
back. We tried dressing but he was bleeding inside. We had no friendly major hospital,� he said.
Published on: Monday, 7th February, 2005
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Bwambuga.
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