By Tabu Butagira
Feb 7, 2005
| ARUA - The Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Mr Alfred Omony Ogaba, on Friday told residents that the People�s Redemption Army (PRA) rebels exist. He said the rebel force has bases in West Nile and it is not a government ploy to arrest and incarcerate political opponents as widely believed. Ogaba, who chairs the district security committee, said detectives, on intelligence leads, acted pro-actively to apprehend PRA activists to forestall full-scale war and destruction of the government installations and personal property. The RDC, who is on official leave, made the remarks while addressing traders during a one-day seminar organised by his office in conjunction with the Uganda National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UNCC&I) at the Catholic Centre, Cafeteria Hall. He said the government could not wait for the dissident forces to organise and blow up buses or kill people in ambushes before acting. �Let me tell the �doubting Thomases� that NRM is not a stupid government that will wait for bloodshed to show that PRA exists,� he said. Ogaba said peace was a prequisite for business to thrive saying the tarmacking of the West Nile highway and impending 18-hour electricity supply present a huge potential to transform Arua into a commercial hub for Southern Sudan and the D R Congo that border it to the north and west respectively. He warned people not to disturb the hard fought peace by joining the PRA rebel group - said to be clandestinely recruiting in the West Nile region. In November, last year, detectives from CMI and JAT bust the rebel racket in Koboko and their continued search in the area had resulted in the capture of at least 26 rebel suspects and collaborators. The army has also recovered an assortment of weapons, including sub machine guns, anti-personnel landmines, anti-tank mines, RPGs and medium machine guns - dug out from mainly Ludara sub-county in Koboko. |
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