{"id":22351,"date":"2021-12-05T14:59:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T14:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=22351"},"modified":"2021-12-05T14:14:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T14:14:51","slug":"govt-set-to-brief-mps-on-updf-deployment-in-dr-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/govt-set-to-brief-mps-on-updf-deployment-in-dr-congo","title":{"rendered":"Govt set to brief MPs on UPDF deployment in DR Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The State minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Henry Oryem Okello, has indicated that government will furnish Parliament with a detailed statement about the deployment of the Uganda People\u2019s Defence Forces (UPDF) in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt [statement to Parliament] was not done, we apologise on the side of our leadership. The minister for Defence will next week, either on Tuesday or Wednesday, brief present a statement to Parliament, \u201cMr Oryem promised.<\/p>\n<p>Even when Mr Oryem apologised on behalf of the government for not briefing lawmakers on the matter prior to deployment, he insisted that informing Parliament before the deployment would jeopardise their plan and hence alert the \u2018enemy\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore you demand for the statement, it is important to acknowledge that what the country is doing is right. Praise them [UPDF] and pray for them. In all operations, there is need for surprise and so the UPDF needed to use all the surprises,\u201d Mr Oryem said in an interview with Sunday Monitor yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Oryem\u2019s promise comes nearly a week after the UPDF deployed in DR Congo without formal notice given to legislators.<\/p>\n<p>After the government deployed the UPDF to flash out rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) said to be nested in the eastern part of DR Congo, legislators lashed out at government for not seeking its approval. To this end, Deputy Speaker Anita Among indicated that her office had been notified that a statement from government would be presented to lawmakers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Mr Oryem said government has issued a catalogue of commands to the UPDF to ensure Uganda is not plunged into similar problems that compelled the International Court of Justice to press a $10b fine on Uganda for plundering DR Congo\u2019s resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. The State minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Henry Oryem Okello, has indicated that government will furnish Parliament with a detailed statement about the deployment of the Uganda People\u2019s Defence Forces (UPDF) in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). \u201cIt [statement to Parliament] was not done, we apologise on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":22350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-22351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt set to brief MPs on UPDF deployment in DR Congo - 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