UGANDA: How the defacto IGP Brig. Sabiti is executing his mandate through ISO & Gen. Tumwine

HOW THE DEFACTO POLCE CHIEF, BRIG. SABIITI IS EXECUTING HIS MANDATE THROUGH ISO AND GEN. TUMWINE.

CHANGE OF GUARDS - When Museveni sacked his trusted police chief, Gen. Kalekyezi and replaced him with Gen. Sabiiti Muzeyi, he was mindful of the cold reception and hostility he would encounter from the police personnel. Consequently, Gen. Sabiiti is more relying on ISO, CMI, SFC and the Minister of Security to execute his mandate.

In August 2018, Museveni's redundant Security Minister, Gen. Tumwine banned movement of livestock at night ensuring that all vehicles transporting animals from one place to another were stop at every animal or police check point along the route for checking and verification of documents.
“Any transporter who fails to stop at the said check points commits an offence and will be liable for prosecution,” Tumwine said in his letter dated August 27, 2018. He ordered all Resident District Commissioners (RDCs), LCV chairpersons and Chief Administrative Officers (CAOs) to ensure maximum compliance to the guidelines.

In February 2019, the same Gen. Tumwine threatened to take action against Resident District Commissioners (RDCs) who had failed to submit daily Situational Reports (Sitreps) to his office. In a February 8 letter, Gen Elly Tumwine pointed out the districts that were non compliant and others that were fond of sending, Nothing To Report (NTP)."
“I do not believe that there can be nothing to report about a whole district. I ask those sending the Sitreps to keep up the vigilance and I will not hesitate to take appropriate measures on those defaulting,” it added.

Gen Tumwine said the Sitrep is supposed to give a whole account of what has gone on in the district the entire day and is supposed to be a yardstick for those RDCs who are performing in their districts. When the Daily Monitor contacted for a comment, Mr Asiimwe Stephen, the Kabarole RDC, said he neither reports to Daily Monitor nor the Security ministry before advising that instead, the people he reports to should be the ones to be contacted.
“I report to the Minister for Presidency. Call them and ask whether I have been reporting or not. The minister for security is less concerned and neither is Daily Monitor."

November 2018, Chimpreports, the regime's online propaganda mouthpiece, accurately reported that Gen. Tumwine had ordered District Police Commanders, District Internal security officers (DISOs) and Residence District commissioners (RDCs) to regularly update his office on incidents of murder that occur in their respective districts. His directive was contained in a circular that read in part;
“You are requested to report to the Ministry of Security on any murder case in your district every day,”

Mid this week, Museveni's Director General of Internal Security, Brig. Kaka met all the Local Council (LC) in what looks like a community policing drive. He, among other manoeuvres, implored the local leaders to work with ISO to fight crime.
“As security actors, we must work together for sustainable security. Sometimes, there are issues but we sit together. You also ought to sit together. I urge all DISOs (District Internal Security Officers) to work together with LC to fight crime,"

“When I had just been appointed ISO director, there were wrangles among boda bodas, I urged them to make SACCOs and it worked out. You too can copy from them,”

Earlier, in November 2017 the same Brig. Kaka had held a press conference at ISO headquarters where he allayed fears that his organisation was usurping the powers of the police.
“ISO is not taking over the role of the police neither are we in conflict with them but we are only providing support. In this work of ending rampant criminality in Kampala Metropolitan and elsewhere, we are working with External Security Organization and the police,”

Instead, ISO doubled its overt role in carrying out the mandate of the police. It arrests, detains, tortures, releases on bond, and carries out extra judicial executions. Some Concerned citizens this week filed a civil suit at the High Court against ISO's continued gross human rights abuses. The plaintiffs allege that the agents of the government under ISO engage in acts of kidnap and detention of Ugandan citizens in ungazetted places. They contend that these agents operate a safe house in Kyengera from where Ugandan citizens are tortured.

Just watch the space; it won't take long before this scheme backfires with dire consequences.

INFORMATION IS POWER AND THE PROBLEM OF UGANDA IS MUSEVENISM