The United States (US) Department of State has announced a cash reward for any “individuals who provide information that leads to the arrest, transfer or conviction” of Ugandan fugitive Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel chief Joseph Kony.
“You can help bring him to justice and get paid up to $5 million (about 17 billion shillings),” the US said in a February 12 social media post through its War Crimes Rewards Program.
Kony, a self-proclaimed ‘prophet’ with mystical powers claims that he was sent by God to counter the 1986 President Museveni establishment.
He founded the brutal LRA rebel group in the 1988 and has successfully eluded justice for nearly three decades.
Kony who is believed to be in his 60s has been living in Kafia Kingi, a contested enclave on the borders of Sudan, South Sudan and the Central African Republic (CAR) with his two eldest sons, Salim and Ali.
He is among the five senior LRA commanders indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in connection with the over two decades’ long violence against civilian population in northern Uganda.
