Reports from Kampala indicate that Uganda's government finally has agreed to pay court awards to Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ten billion US Dollars (USD 10 Billion)
In 1999, the then DRC president Laurent Kabila took Uganda to International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Uganda of plundering its resources and committing crimes against humanity in the country’s eastern region.
ICJ ruled in Congo's favour and ordered Uganda to pay $10billion in damages.
Uganda’s Justice Minister, Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire made the revelation before the Legal and Parliamentary affairs committee after the legislatures piled pressure on to the Solicitor General, Francis Atooke, about the status of the debt.
Otafire said he would be travelling to Kinshasa next week for talks about the debt. He to the house committee that Uganda will initiate talks for the matter to be settled outside the courts of law.
Uganda does not have that kind of money…