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KAMPALA � The Ugandan army's hunt for rebel
leader Joseph Kony is expected to intensify with the Sudan People's
Liberation Army joining in the effort, the government has
said.
Men and women of wisdom:If with 60,000
troops,with American /British and ireasli supplied weapons and
inteligency, and after fighting for 20 years Museveni still cannot
capture "kony", what is the Statistical probability that this time
around ( with the SPLA trown in the equation) Museveni will capture
"Kony"..Museveni and his goons in the NRM should stop fooling the people
of Uganda. His wars and war mongering tactics has
already cost Ugandans Millions of lives, tremendous suffering in
the IDP camps..and above all ruined the future of millions of acholi,
Langi, teso, Karamojong and son Lugwara children.. due to the fact
many children from this areas of conflict cannot and have not be
able to go to school. Promoting more wars is not the
answer. and yet if kaguta insist on that thhen all
that needs to be done is change the Burrel of the GUN to face
south! get my drift!!
MK
"Since the
SPLA is expected to take charge of southern Sudan, they will be part of
the new protocol due for signing soon," said Ms Ruth Nankabirwa, the
minister of state for defence.
The
protocol between the governments of Uganda and Sudan allowing the UPDF
to hunt down Kony's rebels from their southern Sudan bases was entered
into in 2002 and has been repeatedly extended. It is expected to be
extended again having expired on December 31, 2004.
When it is
extended, Nankabirwa said on Friday, the protocol will include the SPLA,
which is expected to take control of southern Sudan following a peace
deal to be signed between the Khartoum government and the SPLA in
Nairobi today.
Another
government minister also spoke of SPLA's joining the fray with
optimism.
Speaking at
Butabika hospital on Friday, Mr Mike Mukula said that the Sudan peace
deal will leave "Kony... an isolated case" to be defeated within this
year.
The Sudan
government had until recently supported the Kony-led Lord's Resistance
Army rebels in return for Uganda's support of the SPLA.
Now after
the peace deal between the Sudanese sides, Mukula, the state minister
for health, said Kony would not be harboured in southern Sudan anymore.
Repeated
efforts to get a comment from both the Sudanese government and SPLA
failed.
A Sudanese government delegation led by the Foreign Minister
Mustafa Osman met President Museveni in Rwakitura on Tuesday. Details of
the meeting were not disclosed.
Acting
Foreign Minister Tom Butime had earlier said that the protocol had been
renewed; meaning only signatures were missing to make it a
reality.
Nankabirwa
said the protocol's extension will happen despite the on-going effort to
achieve a ceasefire in northern Uganda.
In June,
the Ugandan government wrote to Khartoum asking for help to locate Kony,
saying that the LRA chief was hiding in Nisitu, a place in southern
Sudan that the Ugandan forces are not allowed to reach as per the
protocol provisions.
Since
launching its offensive codenamed Operation Iron Fist in March 2002, the
UPDF has overrun several of the LRA bases in southern Sudan.
The war in
northern Uganda has destroyed thousands of lives and a lot of property
over the last 18 years.
Additional notes by Mercy Nalugo
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