Reports Leo Odera Omolo

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni is to talk to his Southern Sudan counterpart Gen. Salva Kiir over the recent attacks on Lefori sub-county in Moyo district by Sudanese People’s Liberation Army soldiers,the NEWVISION has reported.

The SPLA last week attacked Lefori sub-county and abducted 15 people, including a parish priest, accusing Ugandans of encroaching on land and illegally felling trees in Sudan.

The 15 were, however, on Friday released after the intervention of the Uganda Police and political leaders.

“Some people from Southern Sudan came here and took people over the border. I want you to calm down.

Changing the border of Uganda is impossible,” Museveni said while addressing a campaign rally at Celecelea Stadium in West Nile.
“I will talk to Gen. Salva Kiir so that if there is anything, we can discuss,” Museveni said.

He told the residents that on Sunday, he visited Vurra at the DR Congo boarder and discovered that some Congolese had built on Ugandan territory.

Museveni said he instructed the foreign affairs ministry to ensure that the building was removed.

“There is no way Congolese can build in Uganda unless they are investors,” he told the cheering crowd.

At the same rally, Museveni blasted the UPC presidential candidate, Olara Otunnu, saying he should not be entrusted with national leadership because he had no house, wife or child.

“Ask yourself, who is Otunnu? A man aged 60 without a wife, a child or a house anywhere in the world. How can you entrust the State to such a man?” he asked.

Museveni said the Nyagak power dam would be completed next year and it would supply power to the whole of West Nile.

The presidential adviser on Buganda affairs, Robert Sebunya, told residents of Moyo to vote for Museveni and all the NRM flag-bearers in the district for peace and tranquillity.

Sebunya delivered a message he said was from the Katikkiro of Buganda, disassociating the kingdom from the Inter-Party Co-operation, whose flag-bearer is Col. Kizza Besigye.

The Moyo district NRM chairman and NRM parliamentary flag-bearer, Tom Aza Aleru, assured the President of the district’s support.

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