Wandera, the father of 20 children suspects that the one who has burnt the house must have targeted the 23 million Shillings he had kept in the bedroom ceiling.
Although district promised to secure for them land elsewhere for settlement, the efforts have not yet yielded any success. Efransi Mugabi, 76, an old single widow caring for six grandchildren whose parents passed away, now sleeps under a tarpaulin tied on the tree outside the LCI chairperson’s house.
According to Christopher Obol Arwai, Kitgum district chairperson, the estimated number of the rebels alleged to have entered the forest is more than 500 and are already wracking havoc in the community.
