The army has ordered the arrest of a Congolese rebel leader accused of stirring trouble between Uganda and the Kinshasa government. Congolese faction leader, Dr Faustine Ndekesire of the hitherto unheard of National Resistance Army, declared war against the new transitional government in DR Congo last week. The NRA is based in North Kivu in northeastern DR Congo. "We have orders to arrest him for declaring war against the new government in Congo," Army Spokesman Maj. Shaban Bantariza told Sunday Monitor on Friday. "We are in full support of the new government and we shall not allow anyone to wage war against it [Congo] from here," Bantariza added. The Chief of Military Intelligence Col. Noble Mayombo sanctioned the arrest. Ndekesire was panicking when Sunday Monitor contacted him on Friday morning.
| "What shall I do? O-o-o-o-oh, what shall I do?" |
"What can I do? We are victims of exclusion, Uganda housed us before the transition, but the situation has not changed. We are hunted all over and now even in Uganda," he said from an undisclosed location. He was not at Silver Springs Hotel in Bugolobi where he has lived for the last three years, with the Uganda government footing the bills.
| "I'm araid he's checked out, sir... No, he didn't leave a forwarding address..." |
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