“The issue that has really annoyed me most is the bus in which we were travelling was carrying human beings and the bus owners were compensated, they were saying it had no insurance, now, if we were not in that bus, was the bus going to travel to Arua?”, Mr Paul Andiku, a resident of Andruvu cell, Komite ward, Ayivu West asked.
ARUA CITY. When a few entertainers (read musicians, poets, actors etc.) perceived the idea of forming platform 503, little did they know the impact they would have a decade later on the local population of the West Nile region.
The circumstance of the refugees fleeing the ethnic clashes between the Lendu and Hema groups from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is complicated.
Mr Kennedy Lemi Elia is the secretary for persons of concern in Ofua zone III refugee settlement in Rhino camp, Uganda. Gunshot injuries left him disabled and yet his five children are too young to fend for themselves.
A beaming 60 year old Hellen Candiru tells the story of how she bought a goat in preparation for her funeral in 1992 almost five years after she had acquired HIV.
The site of dilapidated houses, the lines on the gigantic bridge and the constantly looted equipment on the extensive Gulu route seen mostly during the dry spell after the covering bush has been burnt away, the inland port of Pakwach slowly obliterates in memory as west Nile regions railway station.
