The opposition Members of Parliament have demanded answers from the government following a directive by President Museveni on balaalo.
Recently, the president ordered the Balaalo with non–fenced farmland in Acholi to leave the region within three weeks.
Speaking to journalists at parliament, opposition shadow ministers and some MPs from Acholi together with the Leader of Opposition, Mathias Mpuuga expressed concern over the Balaalo grazing on people’s gardens.
Mpuuga said that it is irregular for the president to allow the Balaalo to also fence off the land they are grazing on alleging that the Balaalo grabbed the said land from Acholi people.
Mpuuga also tasked the government to explain why it has delayed compensating locals whose cattle were stolen from Acholi during the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) war.
