#Ugandans should take Gen. #Kalekyezi's alleged links with #Rwanda

Gen. Kalekyezi is a serving military officer who for over a decade has been irregularly doubling as Museveni's police chief.  His sole responsibility has been to build an ethnically imbalanced repressive police force whose sole duty is to brutally suppress political dissent. With full blessing of Museveni, he has accomplished this task. Museveni has repeatedly praised his performance as being a good regime cadre. The most recent compliments came at a recent public function in Kisoro district where Gen. Kalekyezi renewed his oath of loyalty thus; "I thank you for the opportunity you gave me to serve and I promise that for the remaining time of my life to work even more not to disappoint you."  He went ahead to offer Museveni some gifts among them a framed photo of the regime symbol of the bus. In response, Museveni thanked Gen. Kalekyezi "for being a good cadre of the NRM, he has worked hard."

Without doubt Museveni's preferential treatment of Gen. Kalekyezi is premised on the latter's Rwandese ethnic connection. He is a son to the pre-independence Rwandese immigrant political activist, John Kalekyezi. His father stole guns from the missionaries at Kisubi that he intended to use in attacking the colonialists and in particular to sabotage the Queen's visit in the late 1950s to open the Owen Falls Dam. Consequently, the colonial administration did not only terminate John Kalekyezi's studies at Makerere but he was deported back to then Belgium Rwanda-Burundi. The Catholic Church also excommunicated him owing to his strong communist stances.

While Museveni has over the years systematically purged almost all his Bush War Generals and top cadres, it’s only Gen. Kalekyezi who has remained his close confidant. Using his strong Rwandese blood links, he played a key role in diffusing the Museveni - Kagame tensions that had arisen out of the armed clashes during the Congo military expedition. His blood brother, Gen. Jack Nziiza who left the Museveni's army for Rwanda in 1990 at the rank of Sgt has been a top security manager in the Kigali regime. In Uganda, Gen. Kalekyezi has aggressively positioned himself as the second topmost powerful person in the land. His ongoing bad blood with the powerful Security Minister, Gen. Henry Tumukunde is having devastating effects on the country's security management. Its bickering accounts for the accusations and counter accusations aimed at catching Museveni's attention. Some of the allegations are too bad to be ignored by any functioning state.

Recently it had to take the Rwandese Ambassador to Uganda to refute allegations that the Rwanda government was working closely with Gen. Kalekyezi to take power when Museveni retires. Earlier on it was reliably disclosed that Gen. Kalekyezi working with the Rwandese Embassy in Uganda and the Police chief of Rwanda, were behind the repeated kidnappings of Rwandese refugees and sneaking them back to the Rwanda government. Unfortunately, the Kampala regime has not come out to clear the air on such grave allegations. The other day it was alleged that Uganda was rendering military training to Rwandese dissidents and most recently the dissidents are linked to Gen. Saleh.

Much as his arch-rival, Gen. Tumukunde is another wolf in a sheep's skin, Gen. Kalekyezi's conduct needs to be checked by a neutral body at least for record purposes since Museveni is just playing survival games.

INFORMATION IS POWER AND DEFIANCE IS THE WAY TO GO.

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