Gulu — ACHOLI leaders have said they support the move by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for five LRA rebel leaders for war crimes in northern Uganda.

The five are the rebel leader Joseph Kony, his deputy Vincent Otti and commanders Raska Lukwiya, Okot Odhiambo and the recently killed Dominic Ongwen.

"For long I have told people that Kony and Otti will never talk peace. The ICC is right to issue the arrest warrants," said Gulu LC5 chairman Col. Walter Ochora Odoch.

His counterpart in Pader, EY Komakech, supported him.

"We were at the ICC in The Hague and asked the prosecutor to give some time to the rebels to come out of the bush. The time given was enough but they never took advantage of it, so the ICC is right in issuing out the warrants," he said.

Aswa County MP Reagan Okumu, however, said the ICC arrest warrants were not news to him.

"One of the rebel commanders has already been arrested but to sit in The Hague and issue an arrest warrant won't change much because the UPDF has also been hunting," Okumu said in Gulu on Saturday.

Some residents spokeout, saying they now support the ICC on the arrest of the LRA leaders."They have been given a lot of time, the Amnesty Law and peace talks but they continue killing people, some of whom could have been presidents, let America come and arrest them,' said a fish monger at Gulu market.