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KENYA DEPLOYS AT BORDER WITH UGANDA IN ANTICIPATION OF ELECTION VIOLENCE February 20, 2006
Apunyu Bonny
(SomaliNet) In an anticipation of election violence ahead of Uganda’s presidential polls on Thursday this week, Kenya Police, army and General Service Unit have been deployed heavily at various border points with Uganda. Daily Monitor reports
The General Service Unit was deployed to guard notorious foot paths used by smugglers and illegal immigrants who cross into Kenya especially in Uganda's border district of Busia.The areas include Sofia, Marachi and Mawero.
The Kenyan Police Commissioner, Gen. Ali Hussein, said the deployment was normal and should not cause alarm to the Ugandan community at the border.
"There is no need to worry, every thing is calm here and this is just routine duty," Hussein said by telephone from Nairobi.
However, a security source in the General Service Unit based in Kenya's Busia district, said that the government anticipates election violence on Ugandan side.
Ugandans in Busia reportedly crossed into Kenya and looted property worth millions of shillings in 1985, after the overthrow of the late former president Milton Obote.