By Christopher Nyeko
Gulu: Initiators of the Roco Paco initiative who are currently drumming for a Pan-Acholi convocation are seeking a total of 150 million shillings to host the Pan-Acholi convocation.
The Pan-Acholi convocation is slated for December 27th to 29th, 2023, at Pongdwongo, Sir Samuel Baker Secondary School in Laroo-Pece Division, Gulu City.
The conference is being organized under the theme “Dyere ki Ribe pi Laro Paco,” literally meaning sacrifice and unity for the restoration of Acholi, under the slogan” Kati woko! Ka pe in Ci anga” plainly means come out! If not you, who should?
The event is estimated to host a total of 1,500 people’s representatives from the entire Acholi subregion; they include selected clan’s leaders, youth’s representatives, cultural chiefs, women’s leaders, and political heads, among other categories.
Speaking to the journalists recently at the Northern Uganda Media Club (NUMEC), Ambassador Olara Otunu, the vice chairperson of the organizing committee of the Roco Paco Initiative, said the 150 million shillings will be used for feeding the participants, providing accommodation, hiring a public address system, and buying internet bundles to link the participants that will attend the conference virtually via Zoom.
Moses Ogal, the finance secretary of the event, discloses the bank account that people can send in their contribution to support this Nobel course as 3100085595, registered in the name of Wang-OO Heritage Limited at the Centenary Bank Gulu branch.
The Pan-Acholi convocation will discuss in depth the problems facing the Acholi sub-region as well as come up with possible ways to restore Acholi natives and reclaim their lost glory.
Otunu emphasized that Acholi natives who will come for the convocation must set aside their political and religious affiliation but must come with an open heart to dig for solutions to the problems that have led to the radical collapse of the Acholi subregion.
He, however, attributed the collapse of Acholi to over 20 years’ insurgencies in Acholi, which resulted in catastrophes.
Alfonse Owiny Dollo Chigamoyi, the chairperson of the Acholi convocation, urged the Acholi people to give in their resources wholeheartedly to support the event.
However, Monsignor Mathew Odongo, the vicar general of the Gulu archdiocese, appreciated Owiny Dollo and Olara Otunu for initiating the event and describing them as the prophets.
The priest, however, rallies the people to come with a heavy heart and deliberates in the meeting for the betterment of all the generations.
Do you have a story about your community or an opinion to share with us? Email us at theugreports@gmail.com.
