A document named the Kisangani Declaration, dated October 5, 2024, is circulating on different social media platforms and raising very many security questions.
The document is purported to be from the Coalition of Exiled Ugandans across the globe, threatening to use all necessary means to cause regime change in Uganda.
The group reportedly gathered in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo, and came up with the Kisangani Declaration, which founded the COALITION OF EXILED UGANDANS.
Their sole mission is to force their way back to Uganda to cause regime change by all means.
“Our singular mission is to mobilize and organize other exiled Ugandans to return home by all means necessary, and our return shall be the end of the Museveni government,” the document reads in part.
For about four decades, the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) have been fighting insurgencies operating both within the country and outside the neighboring states.
It has not been an easy task, but it has been possible because of the sacrifices that men and women in uniform make to fulfill their constitutional mandate of protecting the sovereignty of Uganda as well as ensuring peace and security.
Of course, with the support of the Wanainchi, who are the first-hand security collaborators, the UPDF has defeated all negative forces against Uganda.
This has enabled UPDF to maintain peace and security not only in Uganda but continues to export it to other countries within the Great Lakes region. UPDF’s boots have touched the Central African Republic, DRC, Somalia, and Southern Sudan.
Currently, President Museveni is the chief peace guarantor in the ongoing negotiations in Sudan, Khartoum, to end the conflict.
Insurgent groups, including the Holy Spirit Movement (HSM) under Alice Lakwena, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) under Joseph Kony, and the Allied Democratic Forces (AADF), were all defeated, and currently, the UPDF is still following the remnants in all their hideouts.
The NRM government’s revolutionary method of work to ensure peace and security brought all leaders of the defeated groups, including the West Nile Bank Front (WNBF), the Special Force, and the Uganda Freedom Movement (UFM), among others, to work together in nation-building.
Uganda’s open policy to all those running away from unrest, insecurity, and internal conflicts has been tasted over the years, and it’s not by surprise that Uganda is the biggest host nation for refugees in Africa, with nearly 1.7 million refugees annually.
One would wonder how a nation that is friendly to other nationalities can be hostile to its citizens, or is it we the nationals who are the problem?
Uganda’s doors are open to every citizen for as long as they are willing to become law-abiding citizens.
UPDF, with the help of the Wanainchi and other peace lovers, can defeat any force or threat to the peace and security of Ugandans and the region at large. This is not a threat but a testimony that we have all witnessed over the last three decades.
