Kajo-Keji County Commissioner on Thursday cautioned Uganda to stay aloof from border issues or lose the whole of Moyo District to South Sudan in International Court of Arbitration with evidences of the boundary going beyond the contested areas.
Commissioner Henry Kala Sabuni told CRN that Uganda claims of South Sudan occupied ancestral land is unrealized.
He explained that when Uganda government started constructing roads through Dwani and Sunyu villages of Kajo-Keji in 2009 during Oliver Mule’s commissionership, Moyo and Kajo-Keji authorities resolved to find out the exact border line, but discovered it was beyond Moyo District.
Commissioner Kala narrated that a Ugandan Ambassador went to Britain and came out with findings that Moyo does not even belong to Uganda according to 1914 map of the British Imperialists.
He added that the ambassador advised his compatriots to live in peace and harmony with Kuku people because they live in their land, but others shut him up.
Commissioner Kala vowed that Uganda would not manoeuvre by Google website to claim South Sudan land by taking advantage of the country’s statusquo.
He advises the conflicting communities to agree to cultivate on the same land without claiming ownership to feed Moyo and Kajo-Keji along the border.
The Commissioner wondered why Moyo authorities were taking steps of pushing away South Sudanese along the border, yet Kajo-Keji that owns the land never retaliate.
Commissioner Kala added that it is unbelievable why Ma’di cultivating Kuku land believe it is theirs, chasing Kuku away from their ancestral land by military force.
South Sudan, Uganda border dispute was earlier on referred for resolution to Presidents Salva Kiir Mayardit and Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, but tensions continue to heighten, though the latter told Juba in 2012 that there was no border problem with South Sudan.