Intelligence network in Uganda has started investigating claims that some Ugandans sell guns and ammunitions to Kenya. Sources in Uganda’s security told our informer that some of the people involved in illegal firearms trade include policemen and members of other security organs. It is said that the armed officers in the army, and police collude with civilians in both Kenya and Uganda in selling ammunitions to wrong hands in Kenya.

The Uganda government last week arrested four people including a police officer who allegedly murdered a Belgian tourist at the slops of Mount Elgon in Kapchorwa district while they were smuggling guns to Kenya. The suspects were identified as Fred Kipsang, a special police constable attached to Kapchorwa police station, his brother Patrick Chebules, Kenneth Chepkurui and Moses Chemutai.

The commissioner for political education in Uganda police, Christopher Kwerit, confirms that some of the police officers are involved in arms trade in Uganda and Kenya.

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The landslides killed about 300 people and left more than 8,000 without shelter. About 2,500 of the Bududa landslide victims were transferred to a resettlement camp in Kiryandongo, mid western Uganda.

John Martin Owor, the commissioner for disaster preparedness and management in the Prime Minister Office says the government is set to start implementation of a five year resettlement scheme that will avail homes for all people living in disaster prone areas.

bududa landslides left many dead

He says the scheme to start in 2012 will see the government buying alternative land to resettle the people, and building them houses.

Owor says the government has started with resettlement of Bududa victims and is constructing 300 houses for them. They are currently living in make shift tents in the camp.

Owor says the government is to construct another 300 houses there is due for completion at the end of 2012.

But it emerged that the government had diverted some of the money budgeted for this exercise to the 2011 elections, after the EC asked for 602 billion supplementary budget.

The Principal disaster management officer in the Prime Minister’s office, Cyprian Dhikusooka told IRIN last week that some of the money was required to feed those still displaced in Bududa.

“But elections couldn’t wait, it’s a legal requirement – elections had to take place at that time,” he said.

In March 2011, the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) renewed warnings of a deepening crack on the part of Elgon Mountain that runs 40km from River Lwakhakha on the Uganda-Kenya border through Manafwa, Bududa, Mbale, Sironko and Kapchorwa districts.

Owor says the government is currently carrying sensitization campaigns urging all people still in the areas to accept to be resettled in order to avoid becoming victims of natural disasters.

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