UGANDA: What if Gen. Ssejusa had not returned from exile!! (PHOTOS)

WHAT IF GEN. SSEJUSA HAD NOT RETURNED FROM EXILE!!

CHANGE OF GUARDS - Gen. David Ssejusa is one of Museveni's top Bush War commanders. Since the Bush War days he harbours ambitions for the top leadership of the NRM/NRA. Museveni has always tamed Ssejusa using the stick and chariot. In 2013 after realising that his position of Coordinator of Intelligence Services was nothing but created to keep him off the mainstream military service, he raised another controversy when he claimed that there was a plot to assassinate top Generals opposed to Museveni's 'Muhoozi Project' (inheritance of the presidency by Museveni's son, Gen. Muhoozi).

Consequently, he sought asylum in the U.K amidst all indications of potential persecution by Museveni. In London he unleashed a barrage of verbal attacks against the Museveni regime. He even attempted to mobilise exiled Ugandans by founding the Free Uganda political platform. The now panicky Museveni designed a blackmail campaign. He promised to probe NRA's war atrocities during the northern and eastern Uganda insurgency. Gen. Ssejusa had been instrumental in the infamous Operation North. In London, some majority Acholi and Langi exiles accused Gen. Ssejusa of war atrocities. Though the General apologized for his role, obviously a fully blown probe would boomerang on Museveni. Fearing the inconvenience of international indictment over war atrocities, the General succumbed to Museveni's blackmail by sneaking back into Uganda to seek protection from the very regime he had alleged was bent on persecuting him.

His Hima junior military aides were facing treasonous charges linked to him and were convicted and sentenced. Gen. Ssejusa was not joined in the treason charges for fear that doing so would attract international attention and rise his profile. To remain relevant, Gen. Ssejusa attempted to link up with opposition groupings before he was arrested and charged with engaging in partisan politics. He was remanded and later released on bail before he went into oblivion to this day. Empty promises of his impending retirement from the army have also helped to tame his political appetite as he quietly watches from the ventilator; the favourably exploitable political terrain in the country.

Had he not returned from exile, Gen. Ssejusa would have to some extent caused some disharmony in Museveni's power base, the military more especially the ethnically Hima dominated, elite SFC. With no serious renegade or dissident senior army officer from Uganda, Museveni felt secure enough to throw stones at Rwanda. He opted to support dissident Rwandan dissident General Kayumba and other top politicians. Obviously, Rwanda must be shopping for such dissident senior army officers and politicians from Uganda.

However, had Gen. Ssejusa not returned from exile it would still not be easy to secure Rwanda's backing because the current diplomatic standoff between the two countries looks like a Bahima Versus Rwandan Tutsi issue. But more so, since the Bush War days, Ssejusa had been one of the members of the NRA who dissented with Museveni's preferential treatment of Banyarwanda. The matter was worsened by Museveni's Ranches Restructuring Scheme which brought Gen. Ssejusa into direct clash with some Banyarwanda over such land in his home area of Ssembabule. It wouldn't be surprising in the event of a fully blown military confrontation between Rwanda and Uganda for Gen. Ssejusa to fully back Museveni.

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