Children warn profiteers from war
Mar 30, 2008
WHEN the war ends, there will be no business for those who are using our names to get money, children displaced on the streets of Lira have warned.
By Bill Oketch
WHEN the war ends, there will be no business for those who are using our names to get money, children displaced on the streets of Lira have warned.
“If Joseph Kony, the leader of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) denounces rebellion, we shall all abandon the street, go back home and start living normal lives,†they added.
“There will be no more business for people using our names to generate projects for their personal benefit.†This was in a message presented last week by the displaced children in a play during belated Easter celebrations at Child Restoration Outreach in Lira town.
They recollected the suffering the LRA had inflicted on their families before they fled. The Government and the LRA are slated to sign a landmark peace deal in the South Sudanese capital Juba this week.
The deputy district internal security officer, Emmanuel Peace Opolo, who was the chief guest at the function, requested the Government to train a special unit in the army on professional ethics to protect the children who would remain on the streets.
He regretted that many children were being abused in various ways by those who thiought they were hopeless.
Pastor Isaiah of United Pentecostal Christian Life Ministry concurred with Opolo.
“Nobody should think that street children are hopeless. They are better than your children who are at home because they are experienced,†he said.
WHEN the war ends, there will be no business for those who are using our names to get money, children displaced on the streets of Lira have warned.
“If Joseph Kony, the leader of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) denounces rebellion, we shall all abandon the street, go back home and start living normal lives,†they added.
“There will be no more business for people using our names to generate projects for their personal benefit.†This was in a message presented last week by the displaced children in a play during belated Easter celebrations at Child Restoration Outreach in Lira town.
They recollected the suffering the LRA had inflicted on their families before they fled. The Government and the LRA are slated to sign a landmark peace deal in the South Sudanese capital Juba this week.
The deputy district internal security officer, Emmanuel Peace Opolo, who was the chief guest at the function, requested the Government to train a special unit in the army on professional ethics to protect the children who would remain on the streets.
He regretted that many children were being abused in various ways by those who thiought they were hopeless.
Pastor Isaiah of United Pentecostal Christian Life Ministry concurred with Opolo.
“Nobody should think that street children are hopeless. They are better than your children who are at home because they are experienced,†he said.