Govt to meet Kony's donors
Grace Matsiko
Juba
THE government plans to meet collaborators of the Lords Resistance Army
and its in Nairobi, Kenya this week. The meeting is intended to woo the rebels
holed up in DRC's Garamba National Park to denounce rebellion.
A final meeting of the government team to set out the agenda for the
Nairobi will be held in Kampala today, a source told Daily Monitor.
Internal Affairs Minister and leader of the government peace negotiating
team Dr Ruhakana Rugunda will chair today's meeting the source said. Rugunda,
however, denied there were plans to meet LRA collaborators.
"I have no knowledge of that. I am not aware of that at all," Rugunda
told Daily Monitor by phone. He denied he would be chairing any meeting that
relates to the alleged Nairobi gathering, but admitted that as a negotiating
team they have regular meetings.
But highly placed sources privy to the Nairobi meeting said, the
government is sending the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Internal
affairs. P. Kagoda, Uganda's Consular General in Juba Busho Ndinyenka, Barney
Afako, a Ugandan human rights lawyer and consultant to the Amnesty Commission
to represent the government.
Mr Afako recently visited Garamba where he met Joseph Kony and his deputy
Vincent Otti, with whom he discussed the warrants of arrest issued by the
International Criminal Court (ICC).
There were also suggestions to include a judge on the team but by press
time, the nominee was yet to be known.
Ambassador Busho was summoned to Kampala from his outpost in Juba on
Saturday and he has been waiting for today's meeting.
Former LRA spokesman Richard Matsanga, ak.a David Nyekorach Matsanga, a
Ugandan dissident based in London, through the Africa Strategy, a NGO founded
by former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda is said to be the brain behind the
Nairobi talks.
It is yet to be established if Kaunda has been invited or will be
attending the meeting. Matsanga was the LRA spokesman until 2002, when he
resigned to become the director of Africa Strategy.
According to an official, the government's plan to meet the LRA in the
Diaspora is among the several fronts it intends to adapt without alienating the
on going peace talks in Juba, where the LRA is represented by a team led by
Martin Ojul.
South Sudan Vice-President, Dr. Riek Machar is the chief mediator in the
talks that began in July this year. The Hague-based ICC at the weekend
designated a high-profile crime judge, Mauro Politi to try Joseph Kony and his
four top commanders.
The development indicates that the ICC is determined to go ahead with the
prosecution of the indicted commanders.
They include Kony, Otti, Raska Lukwiya, Okot Odhiambo and Dominic Ongwen.
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