First Read:
General
Sejusa Exposes Museveni’s plan to assassinate Generals and cadres opposed to
the plan to have his son Muhoozi, as his successor(Muhoozi project) : Media
houses closed and under siege over publishing Gen. Sejusa’s Whistle blowing
letter.
'Muhoozi
Project': By Installing Son, Gen. Museveni Hopes To Defer Prosecution
An
ecumenical love affair : Pastor Joshua Lwere joins Anglican clergy in President
Museveni Marriage renewal Vows and Infant baptism function of the president’s
grand children
Kagame
bodyguard rescued in Entebbe: UN issues ‘strong’
protest over abduction of Rwandans in Kampala
Museveni
dedicates Uganda
to God: Copying the antics of US Evangelical dominionists
Will
the Nebanda-Kalungi trial be similar to the Dralu-Kazini trial?? Detectives say
they might prefer manslaughter charges against Mr Kalungi, accused of supplying
drugs that reportedly killed the Butaleja Woman MP
Following Accusations Of Political
Murders By His Ex- Top Aide, Pressure Mounts On Uganda's Gen. Museveni
Vincent MagombeAugust
29,2013
Gen. Museveni eulogized Gen. Kazini at his funeral service. Now
another top general says Museveni actually ordered the killing
[Uganda:
Analysis]
Twenty-seven years into his regime, General Yoweri Museveni, the U.S.-backed
Ugandan dictator, is coming under intense pressure from the families of
murdered top military and political leaders, who want to know the truth about
how their beloved ones perished.
The deaths of Major General Kazini in 2009, Brigadier Noble Mayombo in 2007,
and Dr. Andrew Kayiira in 1987 shocked the nation, and up to today many
questions remain unanswered as to how they met their end. Now accusations by
Gen.
David Sejusa, one of Gen. Museveni's closest aides until recently
that the Ugandan ruler had a hand in these killings is shaking political
circles.
According to Ugandan sources close to the families, the relatives of the
dead men are demanding for the post-mortem reports to be made public. And they
also want international independent inquiries into the deaths of their loved
ones. These demands, according to sources close to the families, are being made
not only by the families of the late Kayiira and late Gen. Kazini, but also
that of the late Brigadier Mayombo.
The main problem, according to the sources, is that General Museveni
continues to block the release of any independent reports into the deaths, and
in the case of Kayiira, refuses to disclose the results of a British inquiry
that was done at the request of the Kampala
regime.
The dead Ugandans were viewed as 'enemies' by Museveni
In all the cases mentioned, the common denominator was that the deceased
persons had all fallen out with the president before they died. Major General
Kazini and Dr. Andrew Kayiira, in particular, had been arrested and charged
with treason. The two were also suspected to be plotting to escape to foreign
countries when they were killed.
Dr. Kayiira, who died in the immediate aftermath of 1980-1986 civil war that
brought Yoweri Museveni to power, was viewed by Museveni as a political rival,
who, according to a family source, had to be liquidated. Just before his death,
Kayiira was arrested by Museveni and charged with treason. He was out on bail
and was thought to be planning to escape from the country when he was brutally
shot to death by assailants who raided a home of a close friend and journalist
where he was staying.
Leader of the opposition Democratic Party (DP), Norbert Mao, on his part has
stated that the party is now publicly backing the Kayiira family in their
search for the truth. He has tasked General Museveni to make public the British
findings on the Kayiira death.
A senior politician from the DP, who was a close associate of Dr. Kayiira,
said that as far as the family is concerned, the fact that Museveni does not
want to cooperate in the efforts to get the British report released into the
public domain points to his guilt. “Why is he hiding the facts? If he were
innocent, he would have nothing to fear,” said the politician.
And, so it seems, Kayiira’s family believe that their relative was murdered
on orders of President Museveni. Gen. Sejusa, who was former coordinator of
Intelligence Services in Uganda
says in a bombshell letter that Museveni knows who the killers are and the
motives.
The other controversial killing was that of former army commander General
Kazini who was also at odds with Museveni when he was murdered in the most
gruesome manner. His battered and bloodied body was found lying in a door way
at a girlfriend’s mansion in the Kampala
suburb of Namuwongo. The death was pinned on the girlfriend, who remains
incarcerated in prison, in spite of her protestation of innocence. Kazini's
skull was reportedly bashed with what may have been a metal pipe.
Kazini, who served as Museveni’s army commander and had been a leadng figure
in the Ugandan military intervention in the DR-Congo war, which followed the
1994 Rwandan genocide, was arrested and court-courtmartialed on a number of
charges including for treason.
The Kazini family point to sharp disagreements with General Museveni as the
main cause of his death.
Upon his death, some family members called for an investigation. According
to a family source, Museveni was very angry with their demands, and it was not
long before another family member, Singa Muhwezi, the young brother to the late
General Kazini was himself killed. Singa was, reportedly, the loudest of all in
the family in demanding for an independent investigation into the demise of the
fallen general.
For the Kazini family, the deaths of General Kazini and Singa Muhwezi are
not the only deaths, whose facts they are seeking to establish.
The family are also interested in getting answers from General Museveni
about an earlier death of another Kazini brother, Jet Mwebaze.
Lt. Colonel Jet Mwebaze was a senior army officer who died in Western Uganda in 1998 under unclear circumstances.
Officially, the cause of Jet’s death was said to be a plane crash. But some in
the Kazini family believe that the army officer survived the plane crash only
to be shot by Ugandan army rescuers, on orders from "above". The
Kazini family were shocked to learn that some agents working for General Salim
Saleh’s were also on the fateful plane when it went down. Salim Saleh is
Museveni’s brother, who wields the most power in the country only after
Museveni.
In recent times, according to sources close to the Kazini family, state
agents have approached the family seeking to bribe them so that they stop
asking questions about the deaths. Other family members are believed to have
been threatened with death if they continued to demand for an independent
probe.
Late Brigadier Mayombo’s family also seeking answers
Noble Mayombo, a former Director of Military Intelligence, who was also an
army representative in the Ugandan Parliament, had risen rapidly through the
ranks to become army Brigadier and the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of
Defense – a position he held at the time of his death.
When Brigadier Mayombo suddenly fell ill, records from the private hospital
in which he was first admitted indicated that he was suffering from “
acute-pancreatitis”
– a condition “where the pancreas becomes inflamed over a short period of
time."
According to a family source, there is widespread belief that the condition
was caused by some form of poison.
The public outcry that followed his death forced the Museveni regime to
institute a public investigation, but until today the report that was handed to
General Museveni in 2007 has not been put in the public domain.
According to a source in the Ugandan military who knew the late Brigadier
Mayombo quite well, just before his death, Mayombo was being investigated by
General Museveni, who believed that the youthful 42-year old officer was
getting more and more sympathetic to anti-regime opposition leaders. According
to this officer, General Museveni was particularly angry that Brigadier Mayombo
was persistently pleading with the President to stop on-going arrests and
persecutions of political opponents.
In the wake of recent revelations by Sejusa, a four-star general, it seems
like a flood-gate has been unlocked. More Ugandans are now demanding answers to
the killings of these prominent individuals. The appetite for information is
insatiable and
The Black Star News reports that the website has
already crashed six times since the
Gen.
Sejusa letter detailing his accusations was posted, due to the
excess traffic.
Dr. Vincent Magombe is a London-based Ugandan journalist and
broadcaster, also Head of Africa Inform
International.
Accusing Uganda
President Of Murdering His Own Former Comrades, A Top General Warns Him To 'Go
Slow'
David Sejusa
August 25,2013
[Op-Ed: Global]
Gen. David Sejusa, a former top aide to Uganda's U.S.-backed president Gen.
Yoweri Museveni, whom he's had a falling out
with, sent the following letter to his Ugandan lawyer Joseph Luzige with
serious allegations against his former boss, Gen. Museveni.
Sejusa says he has photographs of Museveni's former comrades in arms who
he later had murdered and warns him to 'go slow.' In the letter he also accuses
Gen. Museveni of ordering the killing of other prominent Ugandans such as
Andrew Kayiira, a minister and former rival. Gen. Sejusa was responding to an
article in Uganda's
The
Daily Monitor that he says was a smear campaign orchestrated by
Gen. Museveni against him and his family.
The Black Star News obtained the following copy from Gen. Sejusa's
associates in London
where the general took refuge after denouncing the Museveni regime earlier this
year. Gen. Sejusa in part writes:'This time we shall not allow you to murder
our people. It started in the Bush, remember our army commander Sam Magara and
those boys you used to kill him in cold blood? We kept their photos. They will
be released for your enjoyment.'
Below is the letter with some words converted to American English
spelling:
Dear counsel Luzige, I have read the monitor story of today 25. 8. 2013.
It's nauseating to say the [least]. As you can see this is a government run
amok, mis- information stunt.
But it's dangerous too as it shows a CRIMINAL INTENT. First of all, I don't
know of any close relative who runs a forex bureau. Who indeed would have
access [US $8 million]? That type of money is of course peanuts to the Museveni
family.
That's why in their eyes, it's a credible spin. But like all lies, this is
not hard to expose.
In any case, this should not be difficult to establish, its source, transit
route through bank of Uganda,
etc. So go right ahead and publish the name of the forex and the owner and all
those other factors about the alleged transaction.
Secondly, let's know the name of other relative who left the country with
that stash of money and back, that who could carry such huge amounts of money
undetected. That US Dollars 8 million. How foolish must this spinner be! It is
laughable.
To try and sound smart, the spinners mix in foreign intelligence. You don't
have to be bright to know the foreign power they mean. Remember they had
alleged that before I got away, I met and plotted with the British High
Commissioner about my escape.
This was leaked in the press by their local tabloid. This, as we all know was
a total lie. So this is basically intended to serve three purposes:
1). To lay ground to harass, disorganize and harm my family and their
livelihood. This will not be the first time as I will explain later. However,
as the story develops the people of Uganda will get to know the game
plan of Museveni and his gang. They will learn that this is a trick long played
by Museveni to get to his political opponents, their families and businesses.
Actually Museveni did the same with
Maj. Gen James Kazini when
he accused him that he was sending money to elements in Southern Sudan (SPLA)
and West Nile veterans to topple him. That's
when Museveni ordered his execution by procuring the services of a 6-foot 6-inches
man to murder
Gen
Kazini. Forget that trash of [Lydia] Draru.
In case of Kazini, again some forex bureau, originally said to belong to Gen
Kazini, but actually that belonged to a known relative of Museveni was later to
be used to pass the money for the payment of the executioners of Kazini, to the
accounts of the assassins.
The family of Gen Kazini knows this, and when his young brother SINGA
[Muhwezi] tried to follow this, he too was killed. And the KENYAN team of
private investigators which had been hired by the family was attacked and it
left the country at night. And the family was threatened and their businesses
targeted, etc.
Two very close senior relatives of Museveni supervised this. But I will not
mention their names for now, though their names are known by those with this
information. But for now lets keep it at that. Now it's the same game being
played by Museveni and those close to him, we are watching.
This time we shall not allow you to murder our people. It started in the
Bush, remember our army commander
Sam
Magara and those boys you used to kill him in cold blood? We kept
their photos. They will be released for your enjoyment.
This mischief must stop Mr. President.
You know we know you. You are dealing with a different cup of tea. Please go
slow in trying to enjoy it. It will burn you. So go slow on your dirty tricks
campaign.
For those not in the know again
Andrew Kayiira was
said to possess money before he was gunned down by Museveni goons.
The list of the killers is known because the case was investigated by the
best police in the world.
So there is no debate about that. The reason given was money. Mr.
Museveni knows the real motive and the real executioners. If Mr. Museveni does
not go well and use this time to ask for amnesty from the people uganda, then
your crimes will overwhelm you.
Let
Scotland
Yard release the Report of Kayiira's murder and many many others.
The world will be shocked about the murderers in our midst.
For now your game plan is clear. It's stupid because its reckless. But watch
out. I can assure you your every move is being watched. Those who died will
live to haunt you. I don't steal like you.
The British government knows my situation. Britain [is] not a corrupt Banana
Republic like ours which you have destroyed through your corruption. They would
not allow US 8 million to be smuggled at the airport. It's a foolish lie.
2). The second reason for this story is to try and make me look as dirty as
that Club of Looters. Unfortunately for you, it can't hold now. It's too late.
I know you are trying to destroy the little I earned at home.
Just like you did in 1996, 1997 and 1999. If you do, God will reward me
10-fold or more. He always did and will!
But everything has its time. So you can go ahead and please yourself Mr.
President.
3). Third reason is to threaten people from helping me, by trying to link
them to a rebellion. This rebellion is music to my ears. It's not bad at
all as it sounds when it's being alleged. Not bad story at all. We need to be
told its extent, organization, personnel, arms, support. Target, etc etc!
It's gonna be interesting. So go right ahead and charge me, not for
desertion, for that's not the real reason you assaulted the Entebbe International
Airport, but for that alleged
treason, bring it in the open.
It's high time. Just be informed [I am] not afraid.
Lastly a word of caution to those being used for this propaganda, you may be
paid. But when the country sinks, you too will be chief guest at the sinking
party.
So we need to be mindful of what all this portends to our country.
Gen. David Sejusa
Ugandan
