'No Kony deadline'By Badru D. MulumbaPresident Yoweri Museveni has said there is no deadline for routing rebel leader Joseph Kony.A journalist had asked the president when the war would end so that children in northern Uganda can study in peace. "There are some countries with no serious external sponsor [of rebels] yet it has taken them so long to solve the problem [of insurgency]," Museveni told a press conference at the State House, Friday. �This fight is not a joke. America went to Afghanistan; they went to the satellite to see where Osama bin Laden is. Did they get him? Where is bin Laden?" Museveni asked. According the president, however, Uganda now has the capacity to end the rebellion. President Museveni's latest statement signals a break from the past. The president previously set what were interpreted as deadlines for ending the northern rebellion. Museveni said he had spent 30 years fighting dictatorship and was happy to continue fighting. He said most of Uganda was now peaceful and liberated. He said that the problem in Acholi was caused by defeated 'dictators', routed from the rest of the country. He also cited Sudan that was backing the rebellion. �We are stronger than ever before. Anyone, who links up with these [LRA], we will fight them," he said. Museveni said government plans to have at least one government aided secondary school in every sub-county to absorb UPE (universal primary education) 'graduates'. Government also plans to reduce pupil to teacher ratio; from 55 pupils to one teacher, to 52 pupils by the end of this financial year, he said. The Mulindwas
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