It is estimated that at least 79 Rwandans will be received at Kagitumba One Stop Border Post after being released from detention centers where they have been held for varying periods of time by Ugandan Government.
The group is part of the 130 Rwandans who were promised by Uganda government officials to set free last week during a meeting with their Rwandan counterparts.
Reports from various sources show that 79 Rwandans will be deported in five different cohorts with the first scheduled to arrive at the Kagitumba border crossing sometime between 2:30 pm and 3 pm, and the last team arriving between 8:30 pm.
Plans to set the Rwandans free were announced last week as senior officials from Rwanda and Uganda held a video conference as part of the ongoing efforts of both countries to work towards normalizing relations between the two.
This was the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Commission.
The Rwandan delegation was led by foreign minister Vincent Biruta during the June 4 meeting, while the Ugandan side was headed by the Ugandan foreign minister Sam Kutesa.
Tete Antonio, Angola ‘s Minister of External Relations, and Gilbert Kankonde Malamba, DR Congo ‘s Deputy Prime Minister, and the Minister of the Interior, Security and Customary Affairs also attended the meeting.
Angola and the DR Congo are facilitators in the ongoing process of normalizing relations between Rwanda and Uganda that was kick-started by a Memorandum of Understanding signed in September last year between the two countries in Angolan capital Luanda.
Kutesa told the meeting last week that as many as 130 Rwandans detained in Uganda were released in May and processed to return home.
He added that these Rwandans will be handed over to Rwandan authorities at the border posts of the Cyanika and Kagitumba hills on Monday and Tuesday, this week.
Kutesa said, however, that 310 other Rwandans who he said committed “capital offences” will remain in detention and will be sharing their information with Rwanda.
