Leaders finger army, police for laxity in renewed Karamoja raids

UPDF officers

UPDF officers escort Karamojong herders after rescuing herds of cattle from the Pokot rustlers in 2019. FILE PHOTO | MORGAN MBABAZI 



The insecurity in Uganda’s north eastern Karamoja region remains fluid with the expiry of the voluntary disarmament programme last month, leaving an estimated 500 guns still in the hands of local warriors who continue to steal cattle and kill in the resurgent cattle rustling.

Cattle theft has grown from a few isolated cases of one or two animals to the current large scale deadly raids in which hundreds of livestock are stolen.