KAMPALA, Uganda
Authorities have dispatched joint police and army ground forces purposed to find at least four government officials feared killed by armed cattle rustlers in the Karamoja Sub-region.
The four geologists from
Uganda’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development were reportedly on duty in Rupa
Sub - County in Moroto District on Monday.
"The ministry sent them
to do mapping in Karamoja after the recently concluded airborne mineral survey.
I was sent to Nakapiripirit District and my four colleagues went to Rupa but I
received a phone call from community leaders that they landed in an ambush,” Mr
Gerald Eneku, the Karamoja regional inspector of minerals told this reporter on
Tuesday.
Mr Eneku said he was now
“desperately using the Global Position System (GPS) tracker to search for his
counterparts who never returned on Monday.”
The Uganda People’s Defence
Forces’ (UPDF) 3rd division commander Brig Joseph Balikudembe disclosed that
some soldiers are now on ground to establish if the officials were killed.
"I don't have concrete
information about that incident but we will communicate the findings
later," he remarked.
Security in Karamoja has
significantly deteriorated at the hands of deadly armed cattle rustlers that
have recently killed over 40 people.
Their resurgent attacks have
steadily disrupted relative peace only achieved through successful disarmament
enforced by government from 2003-2008.
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