The government has revealed plans to collect the remains of all the former combatants and civilians killed in the NRA bush war in the Luwero Triangle, and rebury them at a single site.
This was announced on Thursday by the Minister for Luwero and Rwenzori, Hon. Alice Kaboyo.
According to the minister, there are a total of 34 mass grave sites scattered across the Luwero subregion.
Most of these sites, however, are in a sorry state.
“It is hard to take care of all of them from wherever they are. And most of them are on land that belongs to the Buganda Land Board. Some of them have actually been demolished,” Kaboyo said.
“Now the plan is to acquire a single piece of land, set up a war memorial museum, and bring all our people and rebury them in this place,” she added.
“The good thing is that all of them are documented; we know who they are and where they are buried. We shall bring all of them to this place so that we make it easier for tourists and our young children to learn more about these heroes who liberated our country.”
The Minister was speaking at a memorial service held for the fallen NRA veterans at St. Peter’s Church of Uganda, in Kalasa, Luwero district, ahead of the main Heroes Day celebrations, which will be held at the same venue on Friday, June 9.
President Museveni, who is self isolating after testing positive for COVID-19, will be represented by Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja.
Speaking at the memorial service, 3rd Deputy Premier Nakadama, who represented Nabbanja, called on the people of Luwero to embrace the government’s UPE and USE schools instead of taking them to private schools where they end up defaulting on school fees.
“Yesterday I saw a 12-year-old girl being sent to be a housemaid because the parents couldn’t afford Shs 30,000 for school fees in a public school. Yet the NRM has given us free schools,” she said.
On her part, Energy Minister Hon. Ruth Nankabirwa promised to find time to go through Luwero and sensitize the locals about safeguarding the power infrastructure that is being set up in the subregion.