By Elizabeth Ankunda
21st June 2023
The Uganda People’s Congress-UPC party has asked the Government to consider holding peace talks with the Allied Democratic Forces-ADF rebels who have spent years terrorizing the Rwenzori area to bring sustainable peace in the region.
The call comes days after alleged ADF rebels attacked Lhubiriha Secondary School in Mpondwe Town, Kasese district and the neighboring communities killing 42 people including 37 students.
Speaking to journalists at their party headquarters at Uganda House, the UPC spokesperson Sharon Arach advised the Government to use the released Rwenzururu King Charles Wesley Mumbere to mediate peace talks between the Government and rebels.
She says a similar move helped to bring peace and sanity back in Northern Uganda which was largely affected by the LRA war between 1986 and 2005.
Father Sunday Augustine Masereka, the in charge of the communications office of Kasese Diocese in western Uganda, very close to where the attack took place recently requested for a negotiated solution, saying that the gun won’t solve anything but only to increase the number of people dying.
In 2013, the then Minister for Defence, Dr Crispus Kiyonga informed parliament about the government’s readiness to initiate talks with ADF once the group was wishing so.
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