Kitgum District Security Committee has given pastoralists popularly known as Balaalo seven days to vacate the district.
The pastoralists were on Monday evicted by a group of vigilante youths from Akadojwat and Agoromin villages in Gule parish while enforcing an ultimatum issued in November last year by President Museveni.
William Komakech, the Resident District Commissioner says that during a meeting between the leaders and the pastoralists, it was agreed that the pastoralists be given some time as they make arrangements to peacefully vacate the area.
Komakech says that the herdsmen have been given up to January 11 to peacefully withdraw from the district or else face forceful eviction.
The Kitgum LCV Chairperson, Christopher Obol Arwai says upon expiry of the deadline, they would inspect and continue monitoring the areas that are still being occupied by the herdsmen to ensure that all their animals are removed and that the herdsmen return to their ancestral home.
According to Arwai, they have identified the parishes of Gule, Lunganyura, and Lolwa in Orom Sub County as the places where the herdsmen have defied the presidential directives of evicting them from the region.
Arawi says residents have continuously accused the pastoralists of deliberately herding their animals into their crop gardens, land grabbing, arrogance, and harassing indigenous communities on the land where they graze their animals.
