Wife of top LRA officer captured
May 12, 2010
THE Uganda People’s Defence Forces have captured the wife of the fourth highest-ranking Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leader, Maj. Gen. Caesar Achellam.
By Milton Olupot
THE Uganda People’s Defence Forces have captured the wife of the fourth highest-ranking Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leader, Maj. Gen. Caesar Achellam.
Night Akot, 20, who was captured last week following clashes in Djema in the Central African Republic, was hiding with her two-year-old daughter.
Akot, the daughter of Odong Olum and a former pupil of Bweyale Primary School, was abducted in 2006 at their home in Amuru district.
She was on Monday handed over to the commander of Operation Lightning Thunder, Brig. Charles Otema Awany, at the operation headquarters in Nzara, 21km north of Yambio town in Southern Sudan.
Akot said she last saw her husband in September.
Achellam, she said, had gone to Darfur for peace talks with the Government.
Awany yesterday said Akot’s testimony was a confirmation of intelligence reports that Joseph Kony had sent Achellam to Darfur, purportedly to find ways of initiating another round of talks.
Akot, who was wounded on both arms and the left leg, is being treated at Nzara.
Dr. Peter Obwoya described her condition as stable but said she would need to be transferred to Kampala for an operation.
The chief of defence forces, Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, was in Nzara on Sunday to assess the progress of Operation Lightning Thunder. He also met the commanders.
The head of intelligence, Lt. Col. Serunjogi Damulira, said four rebels were killed and others are believed to have escaped with serious injuries. The identities of the dead have not yet been established.
Damulira explained that the rebels were searching for food.
THE Uganda People’s Defence Forces have captured the wife of the fourth highest-ranking Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leader, Maj. Gen. Caesar Achellam.
Night Akot, 20, who was captured last week following clashes in Djema in the Central African Republic, was hiding with her two-year-old daughter.
Akot, the daughter of Odong Olum and a former pupil of Bweyale Primary School, was abducted in 2006 at their home in Amuru district.
She was on Monday handed over to the commander of Operation Lightning Thunder, Brig. Charles Otema Awany, at the operation headquarters in Nzara, 21km north of Yambio town in Southern Sudan.
Akot said she last saw her husband in September.
Achellam, she said, had gone to Darfur for peace talks with the Government.
Awany yesterday said Akot’s testimony was a confirmation of intelligence reports that Joseph Kony had sent Achellam to Darfur, purportedly to find ways of initiating another round of talks.
Akot, who was wounded on both arms and the left leg, is being treated at Nzara.
Dr. Peter Obwoya described her condition as stable but said she would need to be transferred to Kampala for an operation.
The chief of defence forces, Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, was in Nzara on Sunday to assess the progress of Operation Lightning Thunder. He also met the commanders.
The head of intelligence, Lt. Col. Serunjogi Damulira, said four rebels were killed and others are believed to have escaped with serious injuries. The identities of the dead have not yet been established.
Damulira explained that the rebels were searching for food.