Netters,
This was the President of Uganda talking about Kony and the abducted Children in Northern Uganda.
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Ogwang Wacha:
Mr President you said that we do not have enough money and resources to stop the killing in northern Uganda. If that is true, then how come we have enough money and resources to go and fight in our neighbouring country? How come we have enough money and resources to bribe MPs to try and lift the term limit for you?
Mr President you said that we do not have enough money and resources to stop the killing in northern Uganda. If that is true, then how come we have enough money and resources to go and fight in our neighbouring country? How come we have enough money and resources to bribe MPs to try and lift the term limit for you?
Mike Wooldridge:
Well your question ranged quite widely. But let's [focus] particularly on that first part about the north - the issue of resources.
President Museveni:
Well we have the resources but at one time we had the problem with our donor partners who were saying that we should not spend more than 1.9% of GDP on the army. That took a little bit of our time, until 2002 when we took a firm stand and insisted that we spend more on the army and we did it.
So it is not that we don't have the money - we had the money - of course we don't have all the money we need for all the things we need. But we had the money to spend on the army but at one time, our partners did not want us to spend it, although we wanted to spend it and until we insisted and now we have spent adequately, that's why the situation is under control.
Now our friend from Silver Springs talks about us fighting in other people's land. Yes, that fight in other people's land was part of the fight for the north. Because it was Sudan, which sponsored groups through the Congo to attack us from the west this time. It was called the Allied Democratic Front - ADF - so that's why we had to go into the Congo; it was part of the same
struggle.
Mike Wooldridge:
I just wanted Ogwang Wacha to come back on those particular points. What do you think of the President's explanation?
Ogwang Wacha:
I still feel that as the President and as a citizen of Uganda, he should have done more - for 19 years he should have done more because the LRA have adopted over 20,000 children; they have displaced 1.4 million people in IDP camps.
President Museveni:
The 1.5 million people who have been displaced - the majority of them were displaced actually in the last two years when the terrorists were under pressure from us they tried to go new regions. That's when the number swelled. Otherwise the number was always around 800,000. But anyway it was part of the regional conflict. It was not an independent factor and those 20,000 children who have been abducted, most of them have been released. In fact, now the children in captivity are very, very few - there are hardly any. The total number of people still with the terrorists could not be more than 400.
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Now compare to the recent utterances about the same children.........Museveni loves to buy time with his
lies!!!
Michael BWambuga wa Balongo
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