Rwandese influx worries Mubende top officials

Al-Mahdi Ssenkabirwa & Stephen Kibuuka



Kampala



Rwandans are illegally migrating into Uganda at an alarming rate, a government official in Mubende District has said.



Ms Nakazana Kiyingi, the deputy RDC in Mubende, told Daily Monitor on Monday that intelligence reports indicated that some or all of the immigrants could be remnants of the notorious Interahamwe, who participated in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and who have recently been terrorising villages in eastern DRC.



“These are Interahamwe from DRC and Rwanda,” Ms Kiyingi claimed, adding that their infiltration into Uganda could stoke land wrangles.



“Our worry is that they don’t have any identification documents and they seem to have manoeuvred the security at the border posts.”



According to Ms Kiyingi, the immigrants were ferried in trucks at night and settled in the sub-counties of Kitenga, Nabingola, Madudu, Kiyuni, Bageza and Kasambya.

They have been coming in since late last year, she claimed. “We suspect that they [immigrants] entered through Kasambya from the other side of Sembabule District.”



“This matter was also brought up in the district security meeting and we wrote a brief to the President informing him about it and even the security minister [Amama Mbabazi] is aware,” the RDC said. Her claims were partly corroborated by the Kabale RDC, Mr Cox Nyakairu, who said yesterday that he had attended meetings where the issue of illegal immigrants from Rwanda has been discussed. “It’s a concern. We have a porous border...And they are free when they come here,” Mr Nyakairu said by telephone from Kabale.



Efforts to reach Mr Mbabazi for comment were futile, as he was said to be in a meeting by press time. According to Ms Kiyingi, the authorities in Mubende are yet to establish the exact number of the infiltrators, whom she said could be in hundreds.



Asked to comment on the claims, Mr Kamali Karegesa, Rwanda’s ambassador, said he could only do so after obtaining details of the alleged infiltration. “I cannot comment,” he said. Ms Kiyingi described the situation in Mubende as “a time bomb”, urging the Ministry of Internal Affairs to intervene.



She said district authorities had recently convened an urgent meeting to discuss the situation. “Some LCI chairpersons have turned this into a business by promising them [immigrants] land,” Ms Kiyingi said. “But many get disappointed when they reach here and find no land.”



Mubende, like many other districts in the central and western regions, has had acrimonious land wrangles in recent times. There have also been tribal clashes in other districts such as Buliisa, where the indigenous Bagungu accuse the nomadic herdsmen commonly known as Balaalo of grazing their cattle on land they do not own. “We have also been told that some [of these Rwandans] possess guns but we have not verified that yet,” Ms Kiyingi claimed.



However, Internal Affairs minister Ruhakana Rugunda said he was not sure of the allegations. “I have not got any information about that, “ he said on Monday.



The Kigali government has over the years been battling the Interahamwe, who are said to operate in eastern DRC. On March 1, 1999, about 100 Interahamwe fighters reportedly attacked tourists at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda, killing eight of them and their Ugandan guide.



Two Americans were killed along with two Britons and four New Zealanders by people who left a note saying they were punishing America for supporting a minority Tutsi regime in Rwanda.

Adwadwalikanye lw’abantu abeefuula Abaganda ne bakola ebikolobero okubavumaganya



BYA MUMANSA

OKUYITIBWA oba okweyita Musoke oba Mukasa tekikufuula Muganda. Kati amannya Amaganda ge gafuuse ekiddukiro ky’aboonoonyi.



Kubeera kwebuguyaza wekka bw’olaba nga abeenyigidde mu bikolwa eby’obumenyi bw’amateeka ng’obubbi n’obutemu bayitibwa Musoke oba Mukasa n’osuubira nti Baganda.



Nedda Buganda efuuliddwa kiddukiro kya boonoonyi. Era kyali kibaddewo ko ab’ettima lwe baasitula enkundi ey’okuvumaganyisa Obusiraamu. Abatali Basiraamu beeyitanga amannya g’Abasiraamu.



Baayambalanga entalabuusi ne bagenda mu mabaala ne batamiirukuka oba ne bagenda ku midaala gy’embizzi ne beegulira embizzi bavumaganye Obusiraamu nga balowoozesa ababalaba nti

n’Abasiraamu bakaafuwadde.



Tewali kubuusabuusa n’Abaganda beeyongedde okusiiwuuka empisa n’okwenyigira mu bikolwa ebyobumenyi bw’amateeka.



Naye ate era kyamazima ddala nti abatali Baganda bangi abeefudde Abaganda ne bakola eby’ekivve bavumaganyise Abaganda.



Abamu bakikola nga basuubira nti bwe weeyita Omuganda kikuyisaamu mangu n’owasa mu Buganda n’olya ekibanja n’ogaggawala.



Naye ebyo byalinga bya dda kubanga okwefuula ky’otali singa kye kyali kiyisaamu amangu singa kati abantu bonna baggweeredde mu Bunyankole okuva bwe kiri nti kati Abanyankole be bayitamu amangu.



Olumu Haji Abdu Lutale (RDC) yasinziira e Kibibi mu Butambala n’alabula Abasiraamu bakomye omuze ogw’okukubira mu ngalo abatali Basiraamu abageegeenya eby’Ekisiraamu kubanga abo be boonoona Obusiraamu.

N’abaganda bayitiriza akajanja.



Emirundi mingi abo abeefuula obwefuuzi Abaganda babasanyukira ne bwe kiba kwetuuma mannya maganda ate Abaganda bennyini be basinga n’okubakazaako amannya ago.



Sso nno awalala ssi bwe kiri. Bwotomala gava eno ne weefuula Omucholi n’osuubira nti Abacholi banaakuwerekerako oba okweyita Ibingira Omunyankole n’osuubira nti n’Abanyakole erinnya eryo banaalikukazaako ....wapi!



Abeeyita Abaganda bwe balekeddwa ebbeetu ne beetuuma n’amannya amaganda gonna ne bagamalayo kyokka nga bakubirwa mu ngalo ekiddiridde lye ffujjo ery’okukola ebikolobero abakikola ne baanikibwa mu mawulire ng’amannya balina maganda.



Ekiyinza okukwongera okudwadwalikana kye ky’okuba nti kino kitandise n’okweyambisibwa mu byobufuzi ng’abo abakolerera eky’okufeebya Buganda kati be basinga okukuba akalaakya nga Abaganda kati bwe bakulembedde mu buzzi bw’emisango sso nga bakimanyi nti abakola ebyo bonna ssi Baganda naye bawendule buwenduzi era Abaganda abeefudde bbereeje mu buzzi bw’emisango bavumirirwe.



Ddwaddwaddwa Mumansa leka nkikinale mbuuze. Lwaki abatali Baganda obuganda bwe mufudde obwokukoleramu ebikolobero?