Uganda police force has clarified that there is not emerging rebel group in Northern Uganda as purported by some residents.
The development follows panic among residents who recently started hiring guns from Nimule, Uganda’s border to South Sudan.
However, Andrew Felix Kaweesi, the police spokesperson explains that the guns in question are being hired by locals to defend themselves during domestic and land wrangles.
He also says that calm has been restored in Kitgum district after some people were gunned down by unknown assailants but Kaweesi explains that they have arrested some people in connection to the cases.
This left many residents in panic forcing them to rush to the border where guns are sold and hired cheaply, for some machines to defend themselves in case of an attack.
“There is some proliferation of fire arms from South Sudan into Uganda and those who get these firearms seem to be hiring them to settle domestic feuds, land related communal conflicts robberies.”
He adds that; “there were no rebels as some people had alleged, that some people had alleged that maybe it’s a rebel group that has emerged in Northern Uganda. Its purely criminal and its being supported by firearms that could be crossing from South Sudan.”
