Reform Denies People's Redemption Army Link
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The Monitor (Kampala)
May 11, 2004
Posted to the web May 11, 2004
Mwanguhya Charles Mpagi
Kampala
The Reform Agenda yesterday strongly denied any links to the rebel People's Redemption
Army (PRA).
PRA is a rebel group which the Government claims is deploying troops at the border in
eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in preparation to launch attacks into western
Uganda.
Some government officials have claimed that PRA is Reform's armed wing, whose top
commander is self exiled former presidential contestant Kiiza Besigye. Besigye denies
the claim.
Reform's deputy secretary in charge of administration, Mr Louis Otika, yesterday said,
"I would like to state categorically that Reform Agenda has no military wing. This
(allegation) is a set up of government as part of the manipulation to keep itself in
power."
He was addressing the weekly press conference at the pressure group's head office on
Bukoto, Kampala.
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Government has linked the PRA to renegade army officers Col. Samson Mande, Anthony
Kyakabale and Lt. Col. Edson Muzoora.
Otika said Reform was committed to fighting government through "through legal and
democratic means and not armed resistance".
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