NUP tasks govt to stop broad daylight killings in Karamoja

By Charles Katabalwa

5^th April 2022

The opposition Party National Unity platform (NUP) has called for thorough investigations into the rampant killings in Karamoja if the region is to be pacified.

Due to insecurity in Karamoja region  the joint security forces launched Usalama Kwa Yote operations in July last year, to address the problem and since then a total of 180 guns have been recovered alongside 1,838 rounds of ammunition but at the same time over 20 civilian lives have been lost due to attacks by cattle rustlers.

Jowel Ssenyonyi the party spokesperson while addressing the media this Tuesday at NUP headquarters in Kamwokya said the security is expected to keep law and order in any community and ensure peace among the citizens.

He adds that Karamoja has become a massacre venue where people are being killed in broad daylight with bodies found lying in gardens, at the roadside and everybody is concerned over what should be done.

Ssenyonyi says the allegations of such killings will soon be linked to senior government officials and the Uganda Peoples Defense Force -UPDF must ensure that peace is restored in Karamoja.