Money lures Ugandan youth into joining South Sudanese rebels
- Written by URN

Ugandan youth are reportedly being lured to join the S.Sudanese war
SPLA IO is a breakaway faction from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), the official South Sudanese army and is allied to Dr Riek Machar, the former South Sudan vice president who rebelled against President Salvir Kiir in 2012.
According to Kidega, South Sudanese authorities complained during their an inter border meeting in Torit State headquarters about Ugandans being recruited into SPLA IO ranks.
The inter border symposium was convened in regards to complaints by Ugandan authorities about armed South Sudanese soldiers threatening farmers currently in the areas of Adodi wilderness in Lamwo that borders South Sudan.
It is alleged that during the meeting, Alberio Tobiolo Oromo, the Torit State governor claimed that they had identified some Ugandan nationals who are holding military ranks within the SPLA IO rebel faction who are now persuading Ugandan youths to join their ranks with promises of decent remuneration.
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.
Lokung sub county LC III chairperson, Ocan Joackim Opoka confirmed receiving reports that some South Sudanese nationals living in the diaspora are sending dollars to the Ugandan youth allegedly through Western Union to join SPLA IO. Efforts to get a comment from the UPDF 5th spokesperson, Captain Hassan Kato on the matter were futile.
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No one has not read of the suffering many of them are going through and that is why other youths are trying to go and work in the Middle East.
If South Sudan by getting its independence means everlasting civil war and economic investment meaning buying and arming yourself with AK47, well what do the higher Sudanese authorities want the masculine African youth to do if there is good money to earn over there?
One wants not to believe that such diseases as Ebola and AIDS are part and parcel of African chemical warfare for those countries that enjoy to partake everlasting civil wars.
The SPLA-IO don't have that allowance for foreigners into it's rank and file. The tribes of Acholi, Madi, Kakwa are strewn across the borders of Uganda and South Sudan.
There are South Sudanese Madi, Acholi and Kakwa in the SPLA-IO and these are what many mistake for Ugandan youth. Look at Kale Kayihura, is he Ugandan or Rwandese?
This article is purely alarmist at it's best but at it's worst a propaganda by the UPDF for a cover up of their illegal existence and operations in South Sudan.
Secondly, the SPLA-IO is a voluntary revolutionary people's movement devoid of any external funding. From Dr. Risk Machar to the least citizens, nobody is paid money gains but sacrifice their blood and lives for good of South Sudanese. Now what motivates a Ugandan youth to make such sacrifices? This article is just fake news!
Did Rwandan refugees not joined the Museveni rag tag NRA? Where did Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda start and developed his military career?
Not in Uganda with the NRA? so what is good for the goose is good for the gender! What comes round, turns around!
Unfortunately Uganda government role in this conflicts has been documented,
But the choice to join the South Sudan People’s Liberation Army is such a big threat, one of these days, these guys may to attack Uganda as rebels
The so-called special forces of the adopted son has always been used across the region for such jobs.
Even though they failed to capture/kill Kony and Machar in the jungle of Zaire(aka DRC)and S.S. One Aronda paid for it with is life.
Kabayekka, if it is the Ebola vile being lobbed into the targeted villages every now and then, then it is a biological warfare/head scheme, to scar the sh*t out of the folks who occupy the mineral rich jungles.
In other words, if the the end justifies the means, it includes infectious diseases.