There will always be one bad apple in every City, every nation, every community and every family. Joseph Kony is the Ugandan bad apple that rots the teeth. with a controversial personality. Sometimes described a terrorist, brutal killer but most interestingly, a prophet.
Joseph Kony was born around 1960 in Northern Uganda. He is aged about 60. Born into an Achoki peasant family, he was brought up in a Christian way.
His growing up was like every other child’s. Was a great footballer and a brilliant dancer during his early years in school. Later joined the traditional society of his community in which he even became a herbalist at some time. He was a renowned traditional healer. Later in 1980, he joined the Holy Spirit Movement led by a charismatic figure, Alice Auma popularly known as Alice Lakwena. The Holy Spirit Movement was an exclusively political movement of which Alice their founder said she was fighting for the liberation of Achoki people since they were being marginalized.
In the above movement, they started off as a secret cult, always engaging into fights and clashes with other institutions of their community. Kony was trained here for a greater terror ahead nonetheless. From whence he former his own legion – Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA.
Kony became the leader and Lord of this notorious and terrorist group. They are known basically for abducting thousands of children, which they use as soldiers or as sex slaves.
He is formerly a Catholic Alter Boy who later turned to persecute even people of his own faith. He has wages war and ordered violent attacks, first in his own country and then after being forced out, in South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and in Central African Republic.
At sometime, he was pursued by the Ugandan Army coupled with the US troops but they gave up the chase in 2017, saying that Kony has become irrelevant and therefore shoukd not be pursued anymore.
His Crimes
Kony is wanted on 12 counts of crime against humanity and 21 counts of was crimes.
– Accused of brutalizing civilians in Northern Uganada through murder, abduction, mutilation and burning of properties.
From the 1990s, the LRA became infamous. The rebel fighters would cut off their victim’s limbs, ears, nose and limbs and take them captives. They cut these parts of their body so they could maintain a structural identity for the people who would make up their kingdom. Second reason is to make them unwilling to join the world community again and see themselves as misfits.
What does the LRA want?
Ms Alice, after promising her followers protection from bullets was defeated in 1988, and she fker to Kenya.
It was on her failure that the LRA was founded. Kony said to continue from where Alice sytoooee and promised never to give up until Northern Uganda is liberated.He said hw want to establish a government based on the biblical 10 commandment and just like many of his words, that statement has not been understood in practical terms.
His Family
Over the years, there has been no comprehensible record of Kony’s family because he married wives every now and then. With or without legal approval, he takes unto himself any woman pleasing unto him as a wife for or against the woman’s wish.
He is recorded to have countless wives and children in different communities, countries and states.
The fortunate ones who escaped his den told stories of how he loved his children and does not allow anyone near them. But they also described him as a home of ‘women abuse’ as he has absolutely no regards for women.
Where is Kony today?
Since the declaration of ‘Kony Wanted’ in 2012 by the world crime watch, Ugnadan Army and the US troops sought go him to no avail. He minimized his activities and went into hiding.
After searching for him for 5years, the search team gave up and concluded that he is no longer active and therefore, irrelevant and not worth searching for.
Since then, his actions has been just like the Nigerian Biko Haram, taking different forms from terrorists to herdsmen to armed robbers but the same group.
He remains Kony however, still WANTED and still perpetrating evil.
Below are pictures of him and his victims of which some are too hiring that they cannot be uploaded on this platform.
Joseph Kony
Some sections of the LRA Army