Saleh Defends Sh4b Plan On Kony
UPDF reserve force commander Lt. Gen. Salim Saleh has defended his sh4b plan to end the Kony insurgency in north.
By Anne Mugisa and Felix Osike
UPDF reserve force commander Lt. Gen. Salim Saleh has defended his sh4b plan to end the Kony insurgency in north. Saleh said his Security and Production Programme (SPP) is “counter-hunger, counter-insurgency, counter-redundancy and ultimately counter- poverty.
Speaking at a public dialogue at the International Conference Centre in Kampala, Saleh said the programme would turn the displaced camps into settlements with military detachments and provide water points, schools, Police, health centres, and other services.
The dialogue attracted UPDF officers, religious leaders, politicians and the civil society especially from the north.
Saleh said he spent four months studying the situation before he came up with the proposal.
President Yoweri Museveni had earlier also told the participants that there was need for mechanised agriculture around the protected camps to supplement relief food and for the displaced to earn income.
The First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Disaster Preparedness, Lt. Gen. Moses Ali, said a ministerial meeting over the SPP proposal would be convened.
Most of the participants in the dialogue wanted the Government to increase military pressure on Kony to force him to negotiate and end to the war.
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UPDF reserve force commander Lt. Gen. Salim Saleh has defended his sh4b plan to end the Kony insurgency in north. Saleh said his Security and Production Programme (SPP) is “counter-hunger, counter-insurgency, counter-redundancy and ultimately counter- poverty.
Speaking at a public dialogue at the International Conference Centre in Kampala, Saleh said the programme would turn the displaced camps into settlements with military detachments and provide water points, schools, Police, health centres, and other services.
The dialogue attracted UPDF officers, religious leaders, politicians and the civil society especially from the north.
Saleh said he spent four months studying the situation before he came up with the proposal.
President Yoweri Museveni had earlier also told the participants that there was need for mechanised agriculture around the protected camps to supplement relief food and for the displaced to earn income.
The First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Disaster Preparedness, Lt. Gen. Moses Ali, said a ministerial meeting over the SPP proposal would be convened.
Most of the participants in the dialogue wanted the Government to increase military pressure on Kony to force him to negotiate and end to the war.
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