AS President Yoweri Museveni logs three weeks here in Gulu on a hunt for the terrorist killers of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), event he most cynical must not see it just as an exercise in defence of his job.

Kony's monstrous acts, which have turned the Acholi into a mass grave, deserve nothing less than a volunteer spirit to stop them. You need not be a president for your heart to blood to the point of taking a gun to end the misery in this otherwise beautiful land of hardworking people.

The President's personal efforts, which have already seen the LRA terrorist abandon their heinous acts in

the environs of Gulu, merit full appreciation by all who feel for others.

Bellying the absurdness of the LRA's reasons for unleashing terror on the innocent - the grossest of which is supposedly to have the north recognised as part of Uganda -Museveni is showing that it is really him who feels for Acholi.

Besides directing the UPDF's latest anti-terrorism offensive, the President has been meeting various groups here to alleviate the war misery. His meeting with the Acholi Parliamentary Group (APG), for example, was a real family affair to chew the cud over a common plight.

The President and the legislators mutually agreed on a stick-and-carrot approach to ending Kony's terrorism.

The President, given his constitutional mandate to protect Ugandans, will not stand by while Kony continues to kill and pillage.

Meanwhile, the MPs, along with others, are free to reach out to Kony and his cohorts, to ask them to stop killing and lay down their arms. If the rebels heed the call and agree to assemble in specified places in readiness for peace, then the President will order the UPDF guns too to fall silent.

Until then, the UPDF guns will continue blazing in defence of the innocent people of northern Uganda.

Surely, to begrudge the President for taking this line, as some armchair commentators are doing, is abetting murder.

Additionally, the Acholi MPs also walked out of the meeting with a juicy commitment form the President

to sponsor two poor children from each constituency in the districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader for university expenditure (entertainment) as the First Citizen in the land.

Later, after listening to tear-jerking testimonies of a trio of kids who escaped from Kony, the President directed the establishing of a special boarding school (primary-with-secondary-and technical) near Kampala for ex-Kony abducted children.

The President's intention is to keep these kids away from the trauma of terrorism, prevent their re-abduction and also integrate them into the national psyche. According to their testimonies, Kony says once he comes to power, he wants only Acholi in sight!