UGANDA: Journalist Opondo "lectures" Gen. Kagame on basic intelligence management

JOURNALIST OPONDO 'LECTURES' GEN. KAGAME ON BASIC INTELLIGENCE MANAGEMENT

CHANGE OF GUARDS - Around mid February 2019, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame had an interview with the East African newspaper. Here below, is an extract of the interview:

Is there a direct link between a Rwandan group in South Africa, the relations with Uganda, the relations with DRC?

With DR Congo, we have no problem. But between South Africa and ourselves, there are these matters that go around in the media. Some of the things that are said to be believed by Uganda about us, are coming from these individuals living in South Africa. It is these individuals in South Africa plotting all kinds of things against us [and they] are the ones giving information to Uganda in a way to solicit support from Uganda against us. Whether accurate or not, the information is designed to create that problem from which they benefit. If Uganda believes in some of these things, it is because they have made a choice to believe them.
We have raised these matters with Uganda; that when they are given information, it is because those people want to buy Uganda’s support.

In response, Ofwono Opondo, the Uganda government Spokesperson during the weekly cabinet press briefing at Uganda Media Centre faulted Kagame for 'poor intelligence management skills'. He said;
"It is laughable that the Government of Uganda doesn’t have institutional mechanisms to pick and process information and simply relies on rumours, perhaps Rwanda. If that were to be the case, the Government of Uganda would be at logger heads with every Government around the world because in each of these countries around the world, there are people who bad mouth the Government to Uganda."

Ofono Opondo is a Journalist by profession. He has never had any form of training in intelligence management. He only utters what Museveni's security machinery tells him to utter. By the nature of their trade, Journalists supplement intelligence collection but their information remains in raw form until it is processed to become intelligence.

Gen. Kagame on the other hand his basic training in intelligence from Tanzania around 1979. During Museveni's Bush War, Kagame was mainly preoccupied with intelligence tasks. Upon coming to power in 1986, Kagame was one of Museveni's top managers of intelligence services. He led a team of Museveni's Intelligence Officers for training in Cuba. In his overseas military courses including in one of the US's prestigious military academy, the component of intelligence management was present. It is this vast experience in intelligence management that played a big role in his successful leadership of the four years of the RPF war of return to Rwanda. Since he took over the presidency of Rwanda over a decade ago, as Commander-In-Chief he has been relying on accurate intelligence for proper policy formulation.

There is no doubt, even Rwanda's decision on the ongoing customs and immigration saga was shaped by accurate intelligence. That is why Opondo's government is panicking and pretending to show more concern for the Rwandans in terms of their source of food and school going children of border communities. You can imagine the RDC of a strategic border district of Kabale who is also the head of the District Security Committee making an amateurish analysis of the situation thus;
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Darius (Kabale RDC): We can’t go in depth with that but I think the problem is with the people of Rwanda, not Uganda. I can authoritatively say that Rwanda depends on Uganda for food and they could be having a food crisis.
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These are the RDC's and their DISO's who feed such crap of intelligence to their respective heads like the Minister of Security and the DG/ISO for onward transmission to the Kampala regime's top policy makers.

Back to basics, intelligence is a craft and the intelligence cycle determines the daily activities of the Intelligence Community. It starts with the needs of the intelligence "consumers' such as policymakers, military officials, and other decision makers who need intelligence for their activities. These requirements are sorted and prioritized within the Intelligence Community and are used to drive the collective activities of the Intelligence Community. The cycle, as depicted in the figure below, is repeated until an intelligence requirement has been satisfied.

The Intelligence Cycle is a concept that describes the general intelligence process in both a civilian or military intelligence agency or in law enforcement. The term "intelligence process" refers to the steps of the cycle. Intelligence, as a general practice has phases such as; (1) requirements, (2) collection, (3) processing and exploitation, (4) analysis and production, (5) dissemination, (6) consumption, and (7) feedback.

Museveni does not doubt Kagame's capability to collect and process accurate intelligence even behind his (Museveni) backyard. On March 25, 2018 during a joint press conference between President Museveni and President Kagame, the Ugandan president painfully acknowledged that,
“When I met president Kagame in Addis Ababa he gave me some facts which I followed up. A group of Banyarwanda was being recruited through Tanzania and Burundi to go to Congo. They said they were going for church work but when they were interrogated it was found the work was not exactly religious. It was something else.”
That was an incident around December 2017 where Museveni's CMI had facilitated the recruitment from Uganda and travel to Congo of 40 Rwandan RNC dissident recruits but were intercepted at Kikagati border post courtesy of Gen. Kalekyezi and group.

Over to you Mr. Ofono Opondo; how I wish you knew why all those spokespersons of different security agencies have chosen to keep mum over the current Uganda - Rwanda relations saga.

INFORMATION IS POWER AND THE PROBLEM OF UGANDA IS MUSEVENISM