Museveni's hypocrisy on cross border movement of spies

MUSEVENI'S HYPOCRISY ON CROSS BORDER MOVEMENT OF SPIES

“Our party, the NRM supports the total free movement of people in Africa. However, we need to agree that governments undertake by treaty never to use the free movement of people to ever operate behind the backs of their host governments. However, this was once a challenge for the East African Community before it collapsed in the 1970s. Idi Amin exploited the open borders to send spies to neighboring countries. He used the system to send out spies. There was one (spy) who lived in the harbors in Dar Es Salaam and we all knew him. Governments therefore, should never use these structures for anything other than trade.”
Museveni, addressing the Africa Now summit in Kampala - early March 2019.

Sometime back, Museveni visited his longtime friend Maria Augustina Mutahangarwa who was then 91yearsold in Isingiro District.
On his Facebook page, he posted that,
“During the war against Idi Amin and later the Obote regime, she used to offer me sanctuary from soldiers who were hunting for me whenever I was crossing into or coming from Tanzania. I am glad that the good Lord continues to give her good health.”

The same Museveni disclosed during a public function while inaugurating the newly constructed URA head office in Kampala that during the Idi Amin and Milton Obote II, he was able to smuggle huge stockpiles of weaponry into the country under the nose of the then corrupt and technologically adept customs officials. He said during the liberation war of 1979, he managed to sneak into the country 12 sub-machine guns all the way from Runga Runga – an island in Tanzania through Malaba undetected. He further said during the second struggle, using his contact Gregory Karuretwa, a truck driver, he smuggled 8 RPGs, 5 sub machine guns and 100 landmines from Bujumbura through Uganda’s southern border till they reached Wakiso unscathed. He also recounted an incident on June 6 th 1981, of how he was able to transit from Uganda enroute to Kenya through Katebo – an island south of Buwama, before arriving in Kisumu two days later without any inconveniences."

"In 1972 I went through this border post of Horohoro with seven guns that I was smuggling to Uganda during the regime of Iddi Amin".
Museveni at Tanga in Tanzania during the launch of the Hoima-Tanga oil pipeline - August 2018.

"I was smuggling weapons through this border here, you should have scanners. We shall have a Lake Victoria monitoring plan too."
Museveni, at the launch of a One Stop Border at Busia - August 2017.

“Lakes are very easy areas of infiltration, there is need to defend our fisheries but also stop border lakes from being used by terrorists and I am an expert in this because I once had to use a boat of 25 horse power to cross over to Kisumu which was so risky,”
Museveni at the launch of the army Marines' specialized equipments - June 2018.

Since attaining power 33 yeas ago, Museveni has thrived on intelligence collections by his agents from neighboring countries. While his External Security Organization (ESO) as the statutory body charged with external intelligence collections uses the cover of diplomatic immunity to operate in foreign countries, he still runs parallel intelligence networks in those countries. In the late 1980s he sent his intelligence agents to Kenya and Congo to kill and abduct dissident Amin Bazira and Col. Kashilingi respectively.

It is basing on such intelligence collections that recently during the Army Day celebrations in Kitgum, he issued a stern warning to Rwanda;
"When I read intelligence reports I feel pity for Africans. Anybody who thinks can disturb Uganda, they are destroying themselves. For us we never attack anybody who is innocent but if you are foolish and think you can destabilize Uganda, you will destroy yourself.”
The only way he gets the said intelligence reports is by sending spies. It is a practice by almost all countries and governments to spy on each other.

Therefore, his argument that regional governments should restrict free movement of not trade and but espionage is hypocrisy of the highest order.

INFORMATION IS POWER AND THE PROBLEM OF UGANDA IS MUSEVENISM