Don’t join rebel groups, youth told
Aug 12, 2008
THE regional cooperation minister, Isaac Musumba, has urged the youth to engage in productive projects to avoid being dragged into rebel activities.
By Patrick Jaramogi
THE regional cooperation minister, Isaac Musumba, has urged the youth to engage in productive projects to avoid being dragged into rebel activities.
“The youth are vulnerable people who can easily be coerced into subversive acts. We have heard of the youth being incorporated into rebel groups but as government, we are putting up strategies that will keep the youth busy all the time,†he said.
Musumba made the remarks on Monday during the national youth meeting on the implementation of the Pact on Security, Stability and Development for the Great Lakes region at Hotel Africana in Kampala. The pact was signed in Nairobi, Kenya in December 2006.
It provides for the joint management of security at common borders and promoting, maintaining and enhancing cooperation in the fields of peace and conflict.
It also calls for the peaceful settlement of disputes and promoting inter-state cooperation on general security issues including combating the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, preventing and combating organised transnational crime and terrorism.
Buikwe North MP Onyango Kakoba said there was need to address the causes of insecurity in the Great Lakes region.
“As members of the Great Lakes who ratified the Pact on Security, Stability and Development, we have to ensure that it is implemented successfully,†he said.
The Great Lakes Region comprises Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, the DR Congo and Congo Brazzaville.
Others are Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Zambia and Sudan.
The head of the UPDF legal services department, Maj. Gordon Busingye, said the pact would help transform the region into a place of peace.
“Issues like prevention of war may be hard to achieve but peaceful settlement of disputes can easily be worked out.â€
THE regional cooperation minister, Isaac Musumba, has urged the youth to engage in productive projects to avoid being dragged into rebel activities.
“The youth are vulnerable people who can easily be coerced into subversive acts. We have heard of the youth being incorporated into rebel groups but as government, we are putting up strategies that will keep the youth busy all the time,†he said.
Musumba made the remarks on Monday during the national youth meeting on the implementation of the Pact on Security, Stability and Development for the Great Lakes region at Hotel Africana in Kampala. The pact was signed in Nairobi, Kenya in December 2006.
It provides for the joint management of security at common borders and promoting, maintaining and enhancing cooperation in the fields of peace and conflict.
It also calls for the peaceful settlement of disputes and promoting inter-state cooperation on general security issues including combating the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, preventing and combating organised transnational crime and terrorism.
Buikwe North MP Onyango Kakoba said there was need to address the causes of insecurity in the Great Lakes region.
“As members of the Great Lakes who ratified the Pact on Security, Stability and Development, we have to ensure that it is implemented successfully,†he said.
The Great Lakes Region comprises Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, the DR Congo and Congo Brazzaville.
Others are Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Zambia and Sudan.
The head of the UPDF legal services department, Maj. Gordon Busingye, said the pact would help transform the region into a place of peace.
“Issues like prevention of war may be hard to achieve but peaceful settlement of disputes can easily be worked out.â€