Local farmers in Amuru district have recovered at least three (3) guns, three magazines and dozens of live bullets while opening their garden.
According to the army, the guns were recovered in March this year but where kept in the office of the Gombolola Security Officer (GISO) until Friday when the UPDF picked the weapons and two pairs of military uniforms.
This is the third incident of recovery of weapons recorded by the army in less than two months.
In March this year, local farmers in Odek Sub County, Gulu district recovered at least ten pieces of Unexploded Ordnances (UXOs).
The discovery brings to 29 the total number of bombs discovered in the same area in less than a year by famers as they open up their land for cultivation.
Since September last year, the army has recovered more than fifteen 88 bombs in villages across Acholi sub region; the epicenter of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) led insurgency.
Lt. Ahmad Hassan Kato, the 4th Division Army Spokesperson said today, Friday that the guns were unearthed from Mutema village in Amuru Sub.
Lt Kato said the recovered weapons are: SMGs rifles, 12.7MM live bullets and three magazines.
Kato says the army suspects that the guns were hidden by Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group when they were fleeing. He added that burying weapons was a common practice by the LRA especially when under pressure from government forces.
The 4th Division army spokesman said the weapons are obsolete and will be destroyed.
In the last five years, the UPDF heavy weapons engineers attached to the Combat Engineering Department have destroyed dozens of 20mm recoilless bombs, Rapid Propeller Grenades and 84MM bombs, anti -tank landmines among others.
