JThey waited for him on target for two weeks, taking a battering from falling rains. And when the sun rebelled, the searing temperatures broke on their bodies beads of sweat.
By Tabu Butagira & Risdel Kasasira,
Yet the UPDF soldiers, like a cat timing a mouse, lay discreet in the bushes, unrelenting.
This is how Col. Abdu Rugumayo, the UPDF Intelligence Officer for the counter-LRA efforts, described the final tense moments as the troops waited to trap Maj. Gen. Caesar Acellam, the LRA field commander.
“Our forces had been in that ambush for a fortnight; there was something we wanted and we have finally got it,” he said, unable to hide his satisfaction with Acellam’s capture. The man, his wife Gladys Adongo, 21, their one-year-old baby and a house maid were arrested on the bank of River Mbou in Central African Republic at around 11am on Saturday.
The capture, according to the Ugandan military officers, occurred as the family crossed from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Col. Rugumayo said there was a brief skirmish, but made no mention of any injuries or deaths on either side. The LRA commander was curiously trekking unguarded.
He would later tell journalists that he had left his escorts, about thirty in number, behind in the DRC. They planned to cross to CAR later, he said. Then Ugandan army officials stopped the battery of journalists it had flown to Djema from asking the captured LRA commander too many questions.
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