By Emma Mutaizibwa
Nov 16, 2003
SOROTI- President Yoweri Museveni yesterday said that peace would return in the insurgency-hit areas of northern Uganda by December.
Mr Museveni was addressing a closed meeting of MPs from Teso and Lango sub-regions in Soroti State Lodge.
He convened the meeting to discuss ways of resolving the 17-year-old conflict and ensuring the return of displaced people to their homes.
Vice President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya and Prime Minister, Prof. Apolo Nsimbabi attended the meeting, as did Col. Andrew Gutti, Col. Nathan Mugisha and Col. John Mugume, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Division commanders respectively.
Sources who attended the meeting said that Museveni reiterated his promise to finish off rebel leader, Mr Joseph Kony and his âdiabolical forcesâ should he [Kony] not take advantage of the amnesty that expires in December.
âKony and his evil-minded commandersâ days are numbered. I will finish him off, should he not surrender by December,â Museveni reportedly said.
In the meeting, that lasted over five hours, the president said that displaced people, in the areas where the LRA has sown mayhem for the last 17 years, would return to their homes soon.
Sources further said that the consensus at the meeting was that the auxiliary forces (vigilantes) in the war-torn areas should be beefed up to keep vigilance in the villages as UPDF pursues the enemy.
The military strategy is to deploy auxiliary forces in the range of 5km and to station the army in the areas which the LRA uses as infiltration routes, the sources said.
The MPs asked the president to improve the welfare of the auxiliary forces. They also asked government to open up all inaccessible roads before the populace could return to their homes.
Museveni was asked to name the detractors of peace who were motivating Kony to fight at the time he could have surrendered.
Museveni, however, said he would not.
He said that they might in future see the light and drop their support to Kony.
Museveni warned political opportunists not to join the âsavage LRAâ or else he would wipe them out as well. He said: âIf you are in leadership you should not encourage savagery.â
He also reportedly said that he would soon be moving camp in the sub-region of Lango to oversee operations to flush out the LRA.
He reportedly said that he would camp in Oliling sub-county in Otuke county, Lira district.
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Matek's Commentary !!!
To an Analytical mind a picture begins to emerge, based upon Museveni's ravings and ranting in the past week about Kony and contradicting statements coming from Museveni's minister of state for defense Ruth Nakainkima (something) , that Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's NRM Military dictator really DOES NOT know what to do with KONY.
That is why Kaguta is now relegated to making the some old promises he has been making for 17 years about finishing kony.
It reminds to be seen if the people of Uganda and members of the international community will once again buy into Yoweri Museveni's lies.
It is apparently clear though, based on the documentary on UK's channel four and other articles carried by other foreign news paper media, that Members of the International community are tired of Yoweri Museveni's lies.
The foreign news paper media are now fully engaged in exposing that which the Kampala regime has been trying to hide from the world. ......like the sheer number of Human suffering of Ugandans in the so called IDP Camps of the North.. the sufferings in Eastern Uganda , the massacres, death destruction conducted by the UPDF (and for which the "rebels" have been blamed).
Somebody should challenge museveni to PUT IN WRITING that if he has NOT captured Kony by December, ( as he has promised) he and his NRM military dictatorships should resign. This would be a fare deal...wouldn't you agree fellow citizens? It is indeed about time that people are held accountable for what they say..expecially a military dictator like Yoweri Museveni.
Matek
Matek
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