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NORTHERN UGANDA MESSENGER POST: WHEN A CREDITOR CALLS TO COLLECT

NORTHERN UGANDA MESSENGER POST: WHEN A CREDITOR CALLS TO COLLECT

WHEN A CREDITOR CALLS TO COLLECT

Many observers of developments in northern Uganda, particularly surrounding the sputtering Juba Peace process, have been taken aback by what is being popularised as its undoing: alleged objections from Acholi Diaspora. The first salvos in this direction of finger-pointing, was fired by a communique issued at Nabanga, a south Sudanese border town in the vicinity of where the LRA have been holed up for the past three or so years. The communique pointedly took up and amplified unsubstantiated accusations, first levelled by disgraced LRM chief negotiator, Nyekorach-Matsanga, that elements of Acholi Diaspora were frustrating the progress of the Juba talks by scaring Kony from appending his signitures on the final agreements. It is needless to point out to serious minded observers that, Nyekorach-Matsanga, is neither a messenger nor bears a message of veracity. It has now been revealed that there were intances when the man actually spoke with and to himself over the mobile and statellite pho