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Uganda: Citizens Told to Back Juba Talks
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New Vision (Kampala)
17 March 2008
Posted to the web 18 March 2008
Anne Mugisa
Kampala
ALL Ugandans should support the Juba peace process if it is to succeed, according to the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda. They noted that other parts of the country, other than the affected north, seem not to show much enthusiasm for the talks yet the war affects the whole country.
The council, however, hailed the Government efforts to talk with the LRA rebels. The final peace agreement is expected to be signed on March 28 in the South Sudan capital Juba.
The government chief negotiator, Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, and his team were due to travel to Juba by press time yesterday.
The council that is composed of the Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox and Seventh Day Adventist Churches and the Islamic faith, said last week that prayers will be held in their worshipping places between March 21 and March 30 for the success of the talks.
This was at a seminar in Kampala on the role of clerics in sensitising the faithful on the UN Millennium Development Goals.
In a related development, the council criticised Government technocrats for perpetuating poverty by formulating development projects aimed at pleasing the donors while ignoring local potential.
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The clerics urged the Government to sensitise people on poverty eradication basing on local values and encourage local investors by interventions such as lowering the interest on loans.
A senior Makerere University lecturer of political science, Dr. Julius Kiiza, stated that the donors need to be told the truth and not what they want to hear.
He said the Poverty Eradication Action Plan sounded nice but had problems in its implementation.
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