The Sudan government is in touch with the Lord’s Resistance Army command and has given the rebels fresh supplies of food and medicines, a captured commander has said.
The LRA political commissar, Okello , told journalists in Kampala that he was part of the LRA team that trekked to Darfur where they met officers of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) on October 4, 2009, the New vision has reported.
He said their delegation was led by Caesar Acellam and they met with the SAF brigade commander in Darfur, Col. Hamdou, and an un-named lieutenant colonel said to be the regional chief of intelligence.
He affirmed that Khartoum solicited for the meeting.
“The subject of the discussion was to resume the partnership with the government of Sudan,” Okello Mission said.
He added that SAF promised to give the LRA a “safe corridor” to central Sudan, as well as food and medicines.
Okello Mission, 30, was captured by UPDF soldiers at Ezo in Southern Sudan after a brief shoot-out in the evening of March 31. Okello was in a unit of 10 rebels, led by Felly Otimi, an escort to LRA leader Joseph Kony