There are people who I call vicious in my book. I named them in my book. One of them wrote a book and created the impression that I was nobody in the June 12 struggle.

The driving vision of the ASSN is that of an African security sector that is democratically governed, people-centred, well managed, accountable and effective. The central feature of the ASSN vision is to promote an African-centred approach, which involves drawing primarily from indigenous knowledge, expertise and resources to support democratic security sector governance and design SSR programmes both pragmatic and sustainable.

I have an unbelievable optimism about life that it is hard to lose hope in anything

..for us to have peace, let us go back to parliamentary system or let the regions go their separate ways and develop at their own pace

You don’t just expect people to be roaming the streets with hunger and you expect crime rates to be low. You do not expect them to be jobless and you expect to have peace