When URN reporter visited the local market in Kaabong town a can of maize was selling between 3,700 and 4,500 shillings an increase by almost 1,000 shillings. In December, maize grain was sold at 4, 000 shillings only.
The LCV Chairperson Kaabong, Mark Abuku says that currently, there is an on-going assessment on incomes of artisanal miners, which will determine the amount of taxes they should pay.
Although she is not new to parliament, Nakwang has an uphill task to prove her relevance to the constituents, who had ejected her from the house in 2017, in a by-election that followed the nullification of the 2016 results over voter bribery and other election malpractices.
Denis Lokol, one of the affected farmers says the elephants reduced his three-acre maize Garden to nothing. Lokol said that the maize was his only hope of survival after failed harvest last year.
The latest victim is Puchi Napenyangura, 25, resident of Lopuyo village in Rengen Sub County, Kotido district. Puchi was allegedly killed by Benjamin Lootan at Warrior’s Street in Kaabong Town Council after a quarrel related to cattle thefts.
Marcelo Nyanga, the Lomuton Village Local Council One chairperson, says the suspected lunatic hacked the two brothers to death at their home using an axe.
According to the residents, the Outpatient Department, OPD at Kaabong Hospital operates only during weekdays. Residents are forced to go to private drug shops in Kaabong town over the weekends.
Yokosaphat Outa, the head teacher Kaabong Senior Secondary School, says hope is back after the education service commission considered all the teachers who were paid under PTA. The school now has a total of 14 teachers posted by government.
The buildings are dilapidated with cracks on the ceiling, broken glasses, doors and windows. Some of the rooms have also been turned into stores for farm produce of the staff of Kaabong hospital.
Bishop Joseph Abura said that while preservation of culture is a good practice, the Karamoja Cultural events are associated with spilling of blood for other gods. He says that he couldnt be party to idolatry that he observes is pulling the region backwards.
According Jimmy Ojok, the probation officer of Kaabong, cases of defilement brought against the local persons in the district are handled expeditiously compared to those against uniformed men and teachers. Ojok cites instances where four police officers, an LDU and two teachers have never been brought to book after defiling school going children.
Mark Abuku, the Kaabong district chairperson says the disarmament exercise, which has seen thousands of Karimojong warriors surrender their guns, has brought peace in the district hence the relative development being experienced in the district
Mark Abuku, the Kaabong District LC V Chairperson, says the disease has cost farmers huge losses. He says the central government has done little to help in controlling the flies.
Members of Parliament from Kaabong district have pleaded with President Yoweri Museveni to beef up security along the borders with Kenya and South Sudan.
In its judgment, the panel of three justices of the Court of Appeal comprising of Justice Richard Butera, Justice Owiny Dolo and Justice Kenneth Kakuru maintained that Tubo was elected irregularly.
The pastoralists were driven from their environs following a dry spell that hit the region for more than ten months. Whereas most pastoralists from Karamoja moved to Teso and Lango sub regions, others, especially the Jie from Kotido migrated to Kaabong, where hundreds of others from Kenya and South Sudan converged.
