Ex -LRA commander, Col. Kamdulu pleads for mercy

May 10, 2012

Alfred Onen Kamdulu, a former LRA rebel commander begged President Museveni to consider him for pardon as the country prepares to celebrate 50 years of independence.

By PetrideMudoola

Alfred Onen Kamdulu, a former rebel commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and his colleagues Major Thomas Opio and Abdul Razak currently detained at Luzira Maximum Security Prison have begged President Yoweri Museveni to consider them for pardon as the country prepares to celebrate 50 years of independence.

In 2009 Colonel Kamdulu and nine others were arrested after the UPDF overrun a LRA rebel camp in neighbouring  Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Kamdulu was arrested in connection with highway robbery and convicted by the High Court in Gulu, just months after he had been granted amnesty.

"As our dear nation prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its independence, may we be given a second chance to redeem ourselves and go out, so that we participate in the development of our country Uganda," the memorandum partly reads.

"We appeal to the President of the Republic of Uganda, Parliament, Judiciary and all the people of Uganda whom we offended in one way or the other to kindly and mercifully forgive us," the convicts pleaded in a memorandum presented to the deputy commissioner for prisons, James Mwanje on Tuesday.

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