UPDF ramps up crackdown on cattle rustlers in northern Uganda
The UPDF has issued a stern warning to cattle thieves.
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The UPDF has issued a stern warning to cattle thieves.
VHTs in the district face other challenges, such as a lack of transportation, including bicycles and motorcycles for easy mobility while treating patients.
UPC party officials will be in Agago on Saturday March 8 for mobilisation rallies ahead of 2026.
The soldiers were assigned to guard a kraal but abandoned their post, only to return in the morning to discover that the cattle had been stolen.
Private Ameny Bonny, a UPDF soldier, killed three in Paimol, Agago last month.
The names of the deceased killed by the SFC soldier are Apiyo Sunday, 21, Akidi Santino, 47, and Ajalo Florence, 16. All are from the Paimol sub-county.
For years, the UPDF has maintained a presence in the Karamoja sub-region and parts of Acholi, conducting a number of operations to keep it peaceful.
At the same court sitting, Private Ssekaja Ivan was sentenced to 14 months for failure to protect war material.
Since 2021, UPDF said 39,024 livestock, among them cattle, goats, sheep and donkeys are recovered.
Operations to curb cattle theft have been tightened and investigations into the arrested suspects are still on going .
Over the past month, the Agago RDC Emmanuel Okot passed several security warnings to the public and criminals. His warning, against the vice, continues to be flouted.
In the last two weeks, he told TND News the district received reports that over 100 pigs have died.
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