Why would Congolese troops do such a thing, when there literary hundreds of
rebel groups in the region?
Mu7 started what eventually is going to seal his fate!!
One cannot conduct a "revolution" on hate of a particular people. If even in
Tanzania he is hated; there are many Rwandese and Burundian Hutus who cannot
wait to get their hands on his balls; add to these, Congolese who literary will
skin him alife should the opportunity arise; then throw into the mix, Uganda's
North and East!!
I don't see the guy retiring and living in peace. Never!!
As things/politics develop, those who will continue destabilizing Africa and
Africans are heading straight toward paying heavy price. For, Africans will
have nothing to lose but their continent that they must die for.
That is what I read in this development.
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UPDF takes over L. Albert security Ausi Balyesiima & FRANK NYAKAIRU
Hoima/KAMPALA
The UPDF has taken over the security of Lake Albert following a deadly armed
attack on a barge carrying an oil drilling team on Friday morning.
A senior British oil surveyor Carl Nefdt was killed in the attack.
Lake Albert is shared between Uganda and DR Congo.
It was generally agreed that we review the entire security arrangement as
the government forces will take over from private security organisations,
Energy and Mineral Development Minister Daudi Migereko said yesterday. He said
he had met with Defence Minister Crispus Kiyonga and all the oil excavating
companies.
The armed attack on Kingfisher-2, close to the Uganda-Congo border, was blamed
on Congolese government troops, the FARDC.
A senior security officer who declined to be named said a group of armed
Congolese soldiers around 5.00pm on Friday approached the Heritage Oil and Gas
experts near Bundibugyo who were surveying oil deposits and told them that they
had entered their territory and advised them to leave.
At around 11p.m. the armed Congolese soldiers aboard two boats came back to
check whether the Heritage Oil and Gas experts had left. But the Heritage Oil
experts had communicated to their base at Kingfisher in Kyangwali, Hoima
District and a team of armed security personnel left to rescue the situation
deep in the lake near Bundibugyo District at night.
In the process the armed Congolese soldiers who had identified themselves
earlier, started shooting at the Heritage rescue team which resulted in a heavy
gunfire.
But Chikez Diemu, the Congolese defence minister, told Reuters he did not
believe his soldiers were responsible.
"There are many armed elements and bandits in the region, but this attack, I
do not think it was done by Congolese soldiers," Diemu told Reuters by
telephone. "If we find that it was, those responsible will be punished."
Heritage Oil Corp yesterday issued a statement on its official site saying
oil drilling would continue despite the attack. The attack could worsen the
relations between the two countries.
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