President Yoweri Museveni rents a house for Lord Resistance Army boss Kony
Posted by African Press International on July 17, 2007
Kampala (Uganda) Uganda government is in its final stages of resettling the mother of the Lord\s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony in her ancestral home town.
According to government representative in Gulu in northern Uganda, Col. Walter Ochora the government is moving Nora Akiteng, 84, from the central region where she has been taking refugee to her ancestral home in northern Uganda.
The move comes as a result of a request from Nora.
President Yoweri Museveni responded to her request by tasking Ochora to identify a house which could be rented for her.
Ochora said on Tuesday that he has secured a four-bed roomed house which will be rented out to Nora.
He said that the tenancy agreement is yet to be concluded.
Ochora said the government would continue renting the house for as long as it takes the Nora to move back to her ancestral home village in Achet, about 30 kilometers east of Gulu town in northern Uganda.
Last year, the government chartered a plane to fly Nora to Ngaramba to see her son for the first time in 17 years.
The flight was seen as a confidence-building strategy to enable Kony\s mother convince her son to commit himself to peace talks.
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