Ugandan Nationals join SPLA-IO, but dismissed as fake news!
Kampala, Torit, Observer, PR, MP 02 Sept. 2019
By Gwado J. Ador
A news report from Kampala says, Ugandan nationals have started to join the opposition ranks lead by Dr Riek Machar to battle President Kiir’s government in South Sudan.
Poverty is the reason driving Ugandan nationals into joining the South Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA IO), Lamwo resident district commissioner, James Nabinson Kidega has disclosed.
Sources added saying, Ugandan have been lured through money sent from abroad by the South Sudanese in Diaspora to encourage Ugandan youth join the ranks of SPLA-IO.
In a meeting organized recently to discuss the inter border dispute, The State Governor of Torit, Alberio Tobiolo Oromo reinforced this and claimed that he had seen some Uganda nationals holding military ranks within SPLA-IO.
He singled out Captain Geoffrey Komakech, a resident of Lukome in Gulu district who is now in the SPLA IO ranks, claiming that he has recruited over 30 youths from Gulu, Lamwo and Kitgum districts. Kidega asked Ugandans to denounce those approaching them to join the rebel ranks.
But some Ugandans dismissed this allegation as pure propaganda by the regime in South Sudan and Uganda to cover up secret operations of UPDF forces currently siding with President Kiir inside South Sudan.
They said the SPLA-IO is a voluntary revolutionary people's movement. It has no money and nobody is paid, but they sacrifice their blood and lives for the good of South Sudanese. Now, what motivates a Ugandan youth to make such sacrifices? This article is just fake news! One of the commentators on the article concluded.
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