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Land grabbing generals

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Land grabbing generals Greedy Generals Gen Moses Ali vows that the land in dispute will be demarcated by whatever means, in the same length Gen Aronda echoed the same statement, our attention should be drawn to the fact that Gen Ali is serving out of fear, the very medieval system that detained him in Makindye, tortured him and his son who he unfortunately watched die before him.   But now that the system has ordained him to defend their scheme of grabbing land from his very own people his tone has changed to the detriment of the entire future of northern region and his mode of fight back is that petty allegation that Gen Sejusa and Gen Muntu were in charge of his torture. To most of us Gen Moses has been serving as a minister since 1971 in Iddi Amin’s regime and it’s said he acted then in the national interest to preserve the economy of Uganda, however time has changed him to start behaving selfishly.   Gen Moses Ali, the people of Acholi and Madi do not ...

Weapons of nudity

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Weapons of nudity is foiling the plan to implement the grand scheme of Museveni to grab land in Acholi.          Desperate times demands for desperate approaches. This the language the regime understands, its ugly but its working. The people of Acholi are not easy walk overs. ... The policy shift by Museveni to grab Acholi land is due to the wealth of land in northern Uganda and the President’s desire to control it. its vital to understand the role of land in the Acholi culture of northern Uganda. The cultivation of land is the primary source of wealth-generating production, and thus livelihood, in northern Uganda. The vast majority of Acholi are rural-dwelling small-scale farmers. They often supplement their diet with game procured through hunting. The land available for these activities is, for the far greater part, held in customary ownership. That is to say, ownership, even when it is individual ownership, is not conferred via government-autho...