More citizenship and free land for another round of #Rwandese expelled from #Tanzania – Cry #Uganda

On 23/7/2016 this site ran an article titled; "MUSEVENI AWARDS UGANDAN CITIZENSHISHIP AND FREE LAND TO RWANDESE EXPELLED FROM TANZANIA".  That was the time when the Museveni regime stealthy moved thousands of Rwandese immigrants from a makeshift immigrants camp at Sango Bay in Rakai to Kyaka in Tooro and given citizenship and free land. The matter had become public following the bitter protest by the locals and leadership of Kyaka area who had not been accorded prior consultation. These Rwandese immigrants had been expelled from Tanzania's Kagera region in 2013 back to Rwanda of which about five thousand opted to enter Uganda. 

Between 2013 and 2016, the Sango Bay camp had been used as an assembly area from marauding Rwandese immigrants before they were eventually settled in Kyaka. The 700 Rwandese illegal immigrants expelled from Tanzania in 2007 who had been camping in Isingiro were joined to the Sango Bay group.  The over 200 so called Balalo immigrants from Bukoloto in Rakai were systematically moved to Rakai and joined to the Sango Bay group.  Another 70 Rwandese immigrants of the controversial Pastor Bushara religious cult from Nakaseke were also systematically moved Rakai and joined to the Sango Bay group.  Much earlier thousands of Rwandese immigrants also expelled from Tanzania had been settled in Rwamwanja.

A few days a go the President of Tanzania while on a visit to Kagera region warned against pastoralists from neighboring countries who illegally enter his countries territory with their livestock in search of pasture.  He asserted thus; "Tanzania is not a grazing land for livestock from neighboring countries and that is why we have stated that we are going to take action as per the law."  The following week the government of Tanzania announced that it had already seized s total of 10,000 heads of cattle from Rwanda and Uganda who had illegally entered its territory.  It went ahead to declare that the seized cattle would be auctioned before warning the other pastoralists to voluntarily return to where they came from.  It is more probable that Tanzania may not rescind its decision because already it had shortly before seized and auctioned 1,035 heads of cattle who had entered its territory from Kenya.  Around the same time, it has also zeized and burnt 6,000 chicks illegally imported from Kenya for fear of spread of Bird Flue.

Historically the pastoralists who flock Kagera region from Uganda and Rwanda are Banyarwanda Tutsi.  They claim that that territory is part of the Cattle Corridor for which they are entitled to move, graze and settle without any hindrance. Similarly, inside Uganda they forcefully move and settle in distant areas of Teso and Lango and of recent they are exploring Acholiland and West Nile up to the border with Sudan.  Uganda should obviously expect another batch of the so-called expellees from Tanzania who need free land and citizenship.  Illegal immigration to Kagera from "anywhere" has also been used as a means of getting easy access to Ugandan citizenship and land after expulsion. How come these illegal immigrant pastoralists keep mushrooming in Kagere a few years after every round of expulsion by Tanzania????  How come whenever they are expelled they don't have land to return to in Rwanda????

INFORMATION IS POWER AND DEFIANCE IS THE WAY TO GO.