Julius Hakiza, the Albertine Region Police Spokesperson admits that ever since the FPU was deployed on the Lake, the region has not recorded any attacks on fishermen by the suspected militiamen yet in the past before their deployment, the attacks were persistent.
Fred Mujuni, the Chairperson of the Kaiso Landing Site fishing community who is a victim of the attacks by DRC militiamen says currently they have peace and can carry on with fishing normally unlike in the past when the attacks were persistent.
Gilbert Atugonza, a fisherman at Nsonga landing site in Kikuube demands that the FPU operatives should maintain their deployment on the lake.
In March the militiamen raided the Lake Albert waters abducting 16 Ugandan Fishermen. They also robbed four fishing boats, four boat engines, and several sets of fishing nets from the fishermen.
On May 20, 2021, six armed Congolese militiamen robbed 15 boat engines on Lake Albert. The attack happened at around 5 am near Kaiso landing site in Mbegu parish Kabaale sub-county Hoima district.
The suspected Congolese militiamen that were dressed in DRC military uniform raided the lake and placed several fishermen at gunpoint, and ordered them to surrender the boat engines to them.
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