President Yoweri Museveni says the renewed support that the government of Sudan is allegedly giving to Joseph Kony, the elusive Lord’s Resistance Army-LRA rebel leader, will make it easier for the regional forces to capture him.
Museveni, who was on Monday presiding over the International Labor Day Celebrations in Gulu town, said that reports of Sudan rearming the LRA rebels will re-energise the regional forces to hunt and capture the reclusive rebel leader who is wanted by the International Criminal Court-ICC.
Uganda has secured the African Union and United Nations backing to deploy in Central African Republic to hunt for the LRA rebels. Up to 100 American Special Forces are also part of the team looking for Kony.
The president said the forces had failed to capture Kony in the recent past because he had changed tactics and was no longer fighting.
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The army recently claimed that they are in possession of intelligence reports indicating that the LRA rebels are again being re-armed by the Sudanese government.
The head of the Ugandan army, General Aronda Nyakairima was also quoted in the media as saying that Uganda will be forced to intervene should war breakout between South Sudan and Sudan. The two countries, who were one until July 2011 when South Sudan became an independent republic, are fighting over the control of the oil-rich territories across their common border.
