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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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