Pulkol Blasts Museveni On Northern Insurgency
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New Vision (Kampala)
April 30, 2004
Posted to the web April 30, 2004
Kampala
THE former External Security Organisation chief, David Pulkol, has attacked President
Yoweri Museveni for refusing to acknowledge that the war in the North has reached a
crisis level.
"The President says there is no crisis! Of course there is no crisis in government
offices. They are air-conditioned. The cars are shock-absorbed. How can they feel the
crisis?" he asked.
Speaking at a workshop organised by the parliamentary select committee on humanitarian
issues for civil societies and humanitarian organisations working in northern Uganda
at International Conference Centre yesterday, Pulkol (above) reiterated his call to
have the north declared a disaster area so it could access humanitarian aid.
He said the executive had "developed a thick skin that they cannot feel the Kony
pinch."
Pulkol urged MPs 'to hit where it hurts', saying they should withhold some part of the
budget for government to act.
"As the people empowered with overseeing a government like this that has lost sense of
shame, that cannot come and apologise to its people that they have lost the war, it
just does not look good for national justice," he said.
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Pulkol said there was a plan to allocate the defence ministry sh90b 'to finish the
war' despite the meagre resources for national development.
"How can the war be resolved militarily when we can't attend to the people's other
needs?" he said. Pulkol said there were 'hardliner' bent on misleading Museveni.
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