UGANDA: Museveni sacked his security managers over Hon. Zaake's escape

MUSEVENI SACKED HIS SECURITY MANAGERS OVER HON. ZAAKE'S ESCAPE

Following his defeat by the opposition in the Jinja East by-election in April, Museveni sacked both the Regional Police Commander (RPC), Twishime and the District Police Commander (DPC), Mbabazi. They were accused by the Political and Electoral Reforms Unit of police for siding with the opposition.  Like it had been the case in Jinja, he suspected that his security managers of West Nile were siding with the opposition.

Consequently, following his other defeat in the Arua Municipality by-elections by the opposition and the violence that ensured, he immediately sacked the Four top security and intelligence officers in West Nile sub-region. Those sacked include Regional Police Commander Jonathan Musinguzi; the regional crime intelligence officer; the Regional Internal Security Officer, Mr Emmanuel Mugisha, and District Internal Security Officer Elly Tugaine, the DPC Abbas Ssenyonjo.

Museveni personally confirmed the sacking in a statement thus;
“The regional and district police commanders, who should have anticipated the actions of these (Opposition) groups..., have been suspended. The DISO (District Internal Security Officer) has also been removed."

During the fracas that was instigated by his guard unit, several people were shot and maimed including the driver of Hon. Bobi Wine who was shot dead on the spot by a 'stray bullet' that was meant for Bobi Wine (Yasin Kawuma). A panicky button had been pressed and in order to cover up the heinous crimes he ordered for the rounding up of the MPs. Four MPs including the MP elect, Kasiano Wadri were violently arrested together with 35 other ordinary citizens. They were brutally battered and in order to cover-up, they falsely claimed that the same MPs had attacked Museveni's convoy with stones.

Because they did not want the public to see the bad state in which two of the most battered MPs, Bobi Wine and Zaake, they were separated from the rest. While Bobi Wine was hidden in a military barracks, Zaake was assisted by some police officers and medical workers to escape. The dramatic and daring episode saw Zaake end up at Rubaga Hospital in Kampala. This is the major reason why security managers in that region were sacked. Later on, Museveni embarrassingly issued a statement that Zaake had escaped from police thus;

“Hon. Zake’s story is that he colluded with nurses to escape from the hospital in Arua where he had been taken after his violent confrontation with the security forces,” said Museveni.
“The Police has not moved to re-arrest him because he resurfaced in a hospital in Kampala. Let him recover, the charges still await him. Resisting arrest is disobeying a lawful order. It is punishable by a sentence of imprisonment for two years."

In the same vein, they foolishly claimed that Hon. Bobi Wine had been found in illegal posession of two guns. The concoction was designed to justify his being kept in a military barracks so that he recovers before being accessed by the public. All that gimmick of charges before the court martial was in fulfillment of that objective. Now that he has regained his shape, the court martial Bobi Wines pulled out and he has been produce before the public.

After realising that the hastily concocted version of Museveni's convoy being stoned was foolish, he attempted to downplay it thus;
"The fake news generators and even some of the elements of the security forces are concentrating on the stoning of the President's car. Please, that is not the most serious problem here. That President has the capacity, either alone or in company with his personal security, to defend himself, not only against stone throwers but against any attacker."

In a fake show of defiance against extreme local and international pressure, he has claimed that he has no powers of releasing Hon. Bobi Wine yet even an imbecile knows that it is Museveni who has a final say in all the fiasco.

Museveni has categorically stated his resolve to deal with any form of dissent against all odds thus;
"........confronting the rioters may affect Tourism and will give a bad image of Uganda. Yes, in the short-run, it may. However, in the long- run it will pay because opportunists will stop playing around with the stability of the country."

INFORMATION IS POWER AND THE PROBLEM OF UGANDA IS MUSEVENISM