UGANDA: List of 16 to be assassinated is test for Museveni's CCTV cameras

LIST OF 16 TO BE ASSASSINATED IS A TEST FOR MUSEVENI'S CCTV CAMERAS

“Let's keep the faith. The problem of urban insecurity perpetuated by armed assassins riding boda bodas will be solved. What we needed were eyes, ears and a nose to sense them. It is what the cameras will do. Once we see these criminals, we shall get them."

Museveni, speaking during the Commissioning of the CCTV cameras at the National Command and Control Centre at Nateete Police Station - 9th October 2018.

At the launch, 122 live CCTV cameras have been tested out of the 150 meant to monitor areas of Lungujja, Old Kampala, Rubaga, Kasubi, Kawaala, Kabowa, Natete, Mutundwe and the surrounding areas.

Hardly two weeks later, a list with 16 people including government officials, cultural and traditional leaders and politicians was early this week released sending panic among the people listed for assassination. The list is reported to have been delivered to the residence of Hon. Moses Kasibante (M.P) in Rubaga - a few metres to Nateete Police Station. A strange lady riding on a Boda Boda and claiming to be from Nateete Police Station is reported to have handed them to Hon. Kasibante's House Maid with instructions that upon return home he should call the same police station.

Among the people listed included Kyadondo East legislator and singer Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine , Buganda premier Charles Peter Mayiga and Government Chief Whip Ruth Nankabirwa , Moses Kasibante(Rubaga North MP). Others on the list include Ntungamo Municipality MP, Gerard Karuhanga, Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago, Kawempe South MP Mubarak Munyagwa and Kampala Minister Beti Kamya. Titular head of Muslims, Kassim Nakibinge, former Kampala Metropolitan South Commander Siraje Bakaleke and deputy Police Spokesperson, Patrick Onyang.

Instead of reassuring the public about the threat level, the police reacted by hastily offering protection;

“We ask those people to be cautious of their personal security and safety, report anything suspicious. Our commanders will have an engagement with each of the people on the list to share information with a view of protecting them.”

One would have expected to see the police calming the public with a statement to the effect that it was still analysing the CCTV camera footage to identify the people and the motorcycle that they used to deliver the said lists. It is as if they had been looking for a way of attaching their intelligence agents in form of bodyguards but just to keep a close eye on the principals' associations and dealings.

Coincidentally, the same police have earlier said they had received intelligence reports indicating imminent attacks on VIPs in various parts of the country before, during and immediately after independence celebrations that were held on October 9.

“The police have intelligence that some criminal elements within and outside the country may want to commit heinous crimes against members of the public especially VIPs like Hon. Ministers, MPs, senior executives and security personnel during or after October 9 when Uganda celebrates her independence, ”police spokesperson Emilian Kayima said in a statement early this month.

The Museveni regime usually issues such hoax security threat warnings for purposes of keeping the masses in a state of fear, to curtail opposition activists freedom of assembly and to stay relevant in the global fight against terrorism as a source of not only foreign exchange but blackmailing the west.

If those lists were not drawn by the regime, it should inform Ugandans why their much cherished CCTC cameras were not able to capture the delivery of the hit list. Otherwise, the development implies that if they had intended to go and assassinate Hon. Kasibante, they would have executed their mission and vanished without trace. 

 But again, which private individual would dare to do that in full view of the recently launched CCTV cameras and moreover in Rubaga area which is the home of the CCTV camera Command Center??

Therefore, the incident posed a test to the capability of the shillings 450b CCTV cameras project. However, this does not mean that anyone on that list can't be killed by the usual "pigs".

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