Michael Lakony, the Amuru District Chairman has asked the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) to gazette a place in the district to settle South Sudan refugees.
“If the Prime Minister can come to our rescue it would be better for the refugees,” Lakony said today in an interview with Acholi Times in Gulu.
He said Amuru district is willing to give a piece of land on which to settle the South Sudanese refugees.
“We are ready to gazette a place for them—a place where they can settle other than scattering all over the district.’’
Lakony said the number of South Sudanese refugees fleeing into Uganda through Amuru has increased since fighting broke out in Juba on Thursday last week.
“There are over 100 Sudanese refugees who cross the border to Amuru district. The inflow of the South Sudanese is much and we need to have a place where they may be settled,” he said.
“The government needs to give medicines and other help since they [refugees] are from war torn country. Some of them come with wounds and injuries.”
More than 200 people have been killed in a new clashes in South Sudan since Thursday last week when fighting broke out between loyalists to President Salva Kiir and his long term nemesis and First Vice president Riek Machar.
