Akech Vows On Security
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New Vision (Kampala)March 4, 2004
Posted to the web March 4, 2004
Raymond Baguma
Kampala SECURITY state minister Betty Akech has advised Kasese and Bundibugyo districts to cooperate with security forces and not to listen to detractors.Akech said this during a three-day security assessment visit to the area recently.
She addressed rallies at Nyahuka and Rwebisengo in Bundibugyo and Bwera in Kasese and reassured residents of security.The residents said President Yoweri Museveni should fulfill his pledge to reward vigilantes and home guards who contributed to the defeat of the Allied Defence Forces (ADF).Akech also met security officials, who included Mountain Brigade commanding officer Lt. Col. David Kabangira.
Her visit came in the wake of recent reports that ADF rebels were regrouping and fears of the Hema-Lendu conflict spilling over from the DR Congo. Akech also toured the Heritage Oil exploration project in Rwebisengo.Last November, suspected Lendu fighters abducted people and robbed fishermen on Lake Albert.
Security sources said the army was alert and vigilant."There is a close cross-border security interaction with the Congolese in Ituri as we wait for the United Nations peacekeeping forces to calm the situation," the sources said.
"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the state."
- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels - Hitler's propaganda minister
