UGANDA: Why Tamale Mirundi is in a defensively panicky mood

WHY TAMALE MIRUNDI IS IN A DEFENSIVELY PANICKY MOOD

Museveni's controversial renegade media handler, Tamale Mirundi has distinguished himself as an excellent analyst of political developments in Uganda. His logically evidence based and accurate analysis of events has won him a lot of popularity, sympathy and love from Ugandans. There is no doubt the Museveni regime must be regretting as to why they sidelined him.

To ensure his security, Tamale Mirundi cleverly denouced the regime (NRM) accusing it of being managed by mafias. He always prays that one day the mafias will one time be cornered by a new regime that will replace the current one. He rightly accuses them of being "genetically arrogant". However, he has maintained his defence and praises for Museveni, his son Gen. Muhoozi and the former IGP, Gen. Kalekyezi.

During the Gen. Kalekyezi and Gen. Tumukunde power struggle, Tamale Mirundi openly sided with the former. On 14/10/2017 we ran a piece titled: GEN. KALEKYEZI AND MIRUNDI PLOY AGAINST GEN. TUMUKUNDE HALTS SERIAL MURDER OF WOMEN (https://changeofguards.blogspot.com/2017/10/gen-kalekyezi-and-mirundi-ploy-against.html the full text of which follows this piece).  This followed a well crafted story amidst the serial murder of women, that Tamale had foiled an attempted kidnap of one of his wives.  He boasted to have used his own technical means not only to identify but to track down the alleged kidnappers.  He insisted that he could only share this information with Museveni.  However, Museveni ignored Mirundi but the murder of women came to a stop. Interestingly, the police never bothered to follow up on Mirundi's claims. It looks like Museveni understands Mirundi's sarcastic support and opted to just ignore him.

Following the recent murder of the Arua legislator, Col. Abiriga, Museveni was overpowered by emotions and panic when he initially asserted that he had been killed by the opposition. He argued thus;

" Abiriga's killing demonstrates stupidity of those opposed to NRM. It was a political assassination because of his commitment to NRM. Why doesn't NRM kill MPs of the opposition ".

Appearing on NBS TV, Tamale Mirundi responded;

"..... when I see people saying that the opposition is behind this I just laugh at some foolish Ugandans." 

Since then, Museveni toned down on pointing at the opposition as the suspects in the Abiriga murder.

Different regime officials have used the opportunity to decry the alleged misuse of mainstream and social media by allegedly inciting violence. The Minister of Security, Gen. Tumwine accused the media of "contributing to terrorism and creating alarmism. The figurehead regime Secretary General, Kasule Lumumba accused the media of " fueling a hate campaign against Museveni and the NRM" before appealing to Museveni to impose restrictions the communist China way.

In response, Museveni has also repeatedly warned of impending "tough new laws" his regime was to formulate so as to "control the noise of fools. Idiots who are just on radio and social media." In one of the tweets, he said; I have also observed creeping indiscipline on air. People threaten violence and get away with it. The Minister of Information must deal with this." The said Minister of Information is Frank Tumwebazi who happens to be one of Tamale Mirundi's "Mafia Walutwetwe" punching bags. Already on 15th June the communication regulatory authority, UCC cautioned media houses that they "give wrong elements platforms to express hatred, discontent and inciting violence." There is no doubt Tamale Mirundi is one of such wrong elements not because he misinforms or incites the public but because his message is convincingly unmasking the regime.

What bothers Tamale Mirundi most is the arrest of Gen. Kalekyezi and his cohorts. It has been reported that a machine that used to privately intercept telephone communication was recovered from Kayihura.  Mirundi rightly fears that this development may link his October 2017 assertion that he had used undisclosed private technical means to track the alleged attempted kidnappers of his wife. Consequently, he has now painfully gone on the defensive denouncing and condemning Gen. Kalekyezi. Mirundi is even suggesting to leave radio and TV talk shows and leave the city to settle in his home village in Kalisizo. He even goes an extra mile by alleging that Gen. Kalekyezi at one time even arrested and detained his wife but only to be saved by Rugunda.

Watch the space.

INFORMATION IS POWER AND THE PROBLEM OF UGANDA IS MUSEVENISM.

https://changeofguards.blogspot.com/2017/10/gen-kalekyezi-and-mirundi-ploy-against.html

Friday, 13 October 2017

Gen. Kalekyezi and Mirundi ploy against Gen. Tumukunde halts serial Murder of women - #Uganda

By end of September, a total of 23 women had been gruesomely murdered in different parts of Kampala. The police and other security agencies failed to come out with a satisfactory explanation over the unresolved murders.

The relief came when the police chief, Gen. Kalekyezi conspired with the disgruntled former Museveni Press Secretary, Tamale Mirundi to link the kisoon killings with the Minister of Security, Gen. Henry Tumukunde.  The two Generals have had bad blood over control of the huge security budget, influence, political ambitions and catching Museveni's attention.

Tamale Mirundi was sacked by Museveni in July 2015 over allegations that he was supporting Museveni's political rivals. Since then, he has aggressively been attacking whoever he believes was behind his woes. However, aware of the potential danger, he has hypocritically maintained a public defence of a support for Museveni. It is the hope that one day he would resigned be reassigned by Museveni that made him fall in Gen. Kelekyezi's trap.

A ploy was hacked whereby at the end of last month Tamale Mirundi went public claiming that one of his wives had narrowly survived a kidnap and murder plot by those who had been killing women around Kampala. He deliberately made no formal complaint with the police but bragged that he had foiled the ploy. He went ahead to brag that he was to personally investigate the incident and burst the racket. Shortly after he came out with public statements to the effect that he had identified the serial killers, their modus operandi (MO) and their entire criminal racket.

He said; "I cannot trust anyone with my info be it the police chief, the Army chief or Minister of Security. The only person I share information with is President Museveni. I don't die for nothing. I need a Presidential Handshake because I've been making my own research on this. The information I have about murders I can only tell the President."

Museveni simply ignored Tamale Mirundi’s blackmail prompting the latter to panic. He opted to don the Museveni party uniform in all his public appearances in the hope that he would attract Museveni's attention. The humiliated and frustrated Tamale Mirundi opted to publicly disclose some details of his so called private investigations.

He revealed from the mobile phone printouts of his so-called murderers, their connections. He claimed that they were using cheep mobile phones that can not be easily tracked by security and moreover the ones that had been deactivated by security agencies/UCC. He went ahead to claim that it was only with assistance of those with strong security connections that their phone sets were deactivated and able to use unregistered SIM cards.

Strangely, the police picked no interest in his assertions. Having realised that Museveni had opted to ignore him, he initially claimed that the murderers had been using their victims in recording sexual films before killing them to erase evidence. Later he claimed that an Australia based Ugandan (most likely Dr. Kiyingi) was behind the murders. He confidently declared that because of his efforts, there will be no more murder of women in Kampala. Indeed, the serial murders have ceased but instead, it is the machete wielding men in areas of Masaka that have resumes.

Had Museveni accepted to meet Tamale Mirundi for the "highly classified intelligence", Gen. Tumukunde was to have been the culprit. The motive would have been that "he is doing it to undermine the police and Police chief, Gen. Kalekyezi. The battle between the two Generals has now taken a new bloody twist involving a Rwandese lady who claims to be in possession of information pertaining to the murder of Felix Kaweesi by Gen. Kalekyezi. This time around Museveni has deployed his Special Forces to disentangle the belligerent Tumukunde's ISO forces and Gen. Kalekyezi's Special Police squads. This new development provides the humiliated Tamale Mirundi with smokescreen under which to withdraw his murder hoax.

INFORMATION IS POWER AND DEFIANCE IS THE WAY TO GO