Kampala — Moroto district has rejected a claim by Katakwi that Karimojong living near the border with Iriiri sub-county had forcefully occupied its land.

The LC5 chairman, Peter Ken Lochap and Bokora MP Terence Achia sodium said Lomaratoit and alekilekl in Iriiri were in Moroto.

"That is our land and no one should lay claim to it. The border was clearly demarcated by the colonial administration and the visible marks are there for everyone to see," Lochap said.

He said one of the ministers who hailed from Teso illegally altered the border in the 1960s.

"We grew up knowing that the border was marked by an acacia tree planted after the Alekilet rock," Lochap said.

He wondered why the border district was limited to areas near the agriculturally rich Iriiri sub-county.

He said Moroto could produce elders who knew the original boundary.