Kony Dodges Salim Saleh
LT. Gen. Salim Saleh and two government ministers, members of the Presidential Peace Team, yesterday failed to meet Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Col. Charles Tabuley in Pader district, security and army sources said.
By Justin Moroin Gulu
LT. Gen. Salim Saleh and two government ministers, members of the Presidential Peace Team, yesterday failed to meet Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Col. Charles Tabuley in Pader district, security and army sources said.
The meeting, which was to take place at Koyo Lalogi, Pajule sub-county in Aruu county, was aimed at finding a solution to the 17-year-long war in northern Uganda. In Saleh’s company were Acholi religious and cultural leaders.
Lt. Col. Charles Otema Awany, the UPDF intelligence coordinator for the anti-Kony rebel Operation Iron Fist in the north, said the LRA team did not show up. He gave no details.
Other security sources said Kony instructed his commanders not to meet the Government team. President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday said there would be a meeting between Saleh’s team and the LRA on Thursday.
Addressing his first press conference this year, Museveni said Saleh was scheduled to meet “some rebels or some people connected to the rebels.â€
Saleh was the only government official who welcomed the ceasefire which LRA leader Joseph Kony declared in a radio call to the Acholi religious and cultural leaders on March 1.
The 16-man delegation led by Salim Saleh included Joseph Kony’s mother Nora Oting Anek, education ministers of state Henry Oryem Okello and Betty Akech and the woman MP for Pader, Santa Okot.
Members of the Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative who accompanied Saleh’s team included retired Bishop Macleord Baker Ochola, Acholi Paramount Chief David Onen Acana II, Fr. Carlos, Rwot George William Lugai, Rwot Joseph Nywakamoi and local leaders from Pajule sub-county.
The meeting was a follow-up of the ceasefire meeting between Col. Tabuley of the LRA and three members of the Acholi Religious Peace Initiative. Over 15 people have been killed and over 70 abducted by the LRA rebels since the March 1 ceasefire declaration by the rebels.
The war in the north has ruined the economy and displaced thousands of civilians.
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LT. Gen. Salim Saleh and two government ministers, members of the Presidential Peace Team, yesterday failed to meet Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Col. Charles Tabuley in Pader district, security and army sources said.
The meeting, which was to take place at Koyo Lalogi, Pajule sub-county in Aruu county, was aimed at finding a solution to the 17-year-long war in northern Uganda. In Saleh’s company were Acholi religious and cultural leaders.
Lt. Col. Charles Otema Awany, the UPDF intelligence coordinator for the anti-Kony rebel Operation Iron Fist in the north, said the LRA team did not show up. He gave no details.
Other security sources said Kony instructed his commanders not to meet the Government team. President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday said there would be a meeting between Saleh’s team and the LRA on Thursday.
Addressing his first press conference this year, Museveni said Saleh was scheduled to meet “some rebels or some people connected to the rebels.â€
Saleh was the only government official who welcomed the ceasefire which LRA leader Joseph Kony declared in a radio call to the Acholi religious and cultural leaders on March 1.
The 16-man delegation led by Salim Saleh included Joseph Kony’s mother Nora Oting Anek, education ministers of state Henry Oryem Okello and Betty Akech and the woman MP for Pader, Santa Okot.
Members of the Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative who accompanied Saleh’s team included retired Bishop Macleord Baker Ochola, Acholi Paramount Chief David Onen Acana II, Fr. Carlos, Rwot George William Lugai, Rwot Joseph Nywakamoi and local leaders from Pajule sub-county.
The meeting was a follow-up of the ceasefire meeting between Col. Tabuley of the LRA and three members of the Acholi Religious Peace Initiative. Over 15 people have been killed and over 70 abducted by the LRA rebels since the March 1 ceasefire declaration by the rebels.
The war in the north has ruined the economy and displaced thousands of civilians.
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