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New Vision (Kampala)
December 11, 2003
Posted to the web December 11, 2003
James Oloch
Kampala
THE state minister for northern Uganda, Grace Akello, has asked religious leaders to counsel Kony rebels to surrender.
Akello said religious leaders should talk to the rebels with the knowledge of the military, her office and local leaders.
"The Government wants them to surrender and they would be resettled," she said.
Akello was speaking at celebrations to mark the World Day for Disabled Persons at Apac recently.
Akello represented the Vice-President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, at the national celebrations hosted by the district.
She said President Yoweri Museveni was committed to ending the rebel atrocities in the region.
She said Museveni had strengthened the UPDF onslaught against the rebels by recruiting the Amuka group to help the army fight the LRA rebels in Lira as they did in Teso region.
She challenged the Lord's Resistance Army leadership to come out of the bush if they were committed to peaceful resolution of the conflict.
She said the formation of the Amnesty Commission and other peace teams showed Museveni's quest to end the war by any means possible.
