President Museveni should explain the role Uganda is playing in the armed conflict between M23 rebels and DR Congo soldiers, lest he is perceived to have a hidden agenda, a legislator claimed yesterday. Addressing journalists at Parliament yesterday, Geoffrey Ekanya, the MP for Tororo county, said his sources in the United Nations Security Council had told him that Uganda is one of the countries rooting for the splitting of DR Congo, using the conflict in the eastern part of the country as justification.
The MP claimed that this plan could be tabled at the African Union summit meeting that kicks off tomorrow in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. If these reports are untrue, Ekanya said, Museveni should come out with a detailed statement explaining the nature of Uganda's involvement in the Congo conflict.
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