President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Sunday attacked the United Nations forces operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo accusing them of squandering money but failing to flash out the Allied Democratic forces rebels.
Museveni said much as the country has managed to thoroughly handle Joseph Kony’s LRA rebel fighters, the ADF rebel group, which is currently operating in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is still a threat to the country’s stability.
Delivering his Independence Day speech at Golf Coast in Lira town on Sunday, Museveni said ADF rebels are still a threat in spite of the Congolese assistance adding that the UN mission in Congo, MONUC is happily staying with the terrorists.
The rebels invaded Uganda in October 1996 before waging a five-year brutal insurgency until it was defeated by the national army in 2002. Among the many atrocities committed by the rebel group, was the June 1998 burning of Kichwamba Technical College in which at least 80 students were burnt to ashes.
The president said instead of MONUC living peacefully with the ADF rebels, they should look at what the Uganda People’s Defence Forces have done in Somalia, where Uganda deployed to fight the Alshabab fighters.
The Independence Day celebrations drew several foreign dignitaries including Kenyan vice president Kalonzo Stephen Musyoka, Southern Sudan speaker of parliament and other delegations from South Africa and Tanzania.
