Operation ‘Umoja Wetu’ must have a logical end

The only logical conclusion to operation ‘Umoja Wetu’ has to be based on its achievement of the targets it had set from the onset; the very noble target of routing out the FDLR menace that has ravaged the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) jungles for over a decade. Calls by North Kivu Congolese traditional leaders and those by Rwanda’s legislators, for the operation’s mandate to be extended beyond the stipulated 15 days to come, have to be taken seriously if the perennial problem of the FDLR is to be brought to its finality. On the minds of the two countries leadership as they plan a way forward, should be only success with failure not being an option. They are thus at a crucial point of planning to fail or failing to plan. The Congolese citizens who had started to benefit from this operation getting the much needed reprieve of peace being restored in their communities count on this planning.