WHY MUSEVENI'S FAMILY IS A TARGET OF RWANDA'S 'HOSTILITY' BUT NOT SOME UPDF PERSONNEL
By CHANGE OF GAURDS
"Wars are started by politicians, planned by Generals and fought by men."
A poster on the wall of one of the torture chambers at Museveni's Kololo based JATT Safe House.
The ongoing bad blood between Kigali and Kampala took another twist early this month when Museveni stopped three of his grandchildren from travelling to Kigali for the Africa Basketball League (FIBA) U16 tournament that took place in Kigali.
However, Military medics from Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and South Sudan are currently in Rwanda providing free medical services to different hospitals until July 3. The four contingents, made of 30 medical experts each, are part of East African Community (EAC) Civil Military Cooperation (CIMIC). Both the UPDF and Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) medical teams, are operating at Nyamata District Hospital and offering general medicine, Ear-Nose-Throat ENT) surgery, dental and eye treatment, anaethesia, orthopaedrics, general surgery, and gynaecology, among others, as part of their contribution to this year’s free one-week civil military activities in Rwanda.
The two countries (Uganda and Rwanda) have been bickering over alleged Museveni's support for Rwandan armed dissidents. Usually, such bickering, if not tamed escalates into an armed confrontation which is fought by soldiers. Therefore, under normal circumstances, military personnel are the target. That is why, though a member of the EAC, Burundi, which is facing the same situation with Rwanda did not send its military medics to Rwanda. For Uganda, Museveni feels his grand children are more of a target by Rwanda's hostility than his army officers. As we have repeatedly argued, the key protagonists on the side of Uganda are the Hima clique. That is why you hear of Gen. Saleh, Gen. Tumukunde, Gen. Kandiho and a few others.
In a March 2011 Television interview with a Kenyan Journalist, Jeff Koinange, Museveni blatantly put it as to what he was working for. He was more concerned about his children and grandchildren than other Ugandans.
Jeff Koinange:
"Do you wake up sometimes, and feel, you know what, this is too much. You don't feel appreciated enough."
Museveni:
"It doesn't matter; I am working for myself. I am not working for other people. I am working for my grandchildren; for my children."
In January 2017 Museveni corroborated the above statement thus;
‘‘I hear some people saying that I am their servant, I am not a servant of anybody. I am a freedom fighter, that is what I do. I don’t do it because I am your servant, I’m not your servant. I am just a freedom fighter, I am fighting for myself or my beliefs. That’s how I come in, I’m not an employee.
If anybody thinks he gave me a job, he is deceiving himself. I am just a freedom fighter whom you thought could help you also,’‘ he stated.
In his September 2018 public address, Museveni urged parents to plan for their children saying that his children are lucky not to have suffered thanks to his planning.
A poster on the wall of one of the torture chambers at Museveni's Kololo based JATT Safe House.
The ongoing bad blood between Kigali and Kampala took another twist early this month when Museveni stopped three of his grandchildren from travelling to Kigali for the Africa Basketball League (FIBA) U16 tournament that took place in Kigali.
However, Military medics from Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and South Sudan are currently in Rwanda providing free medical services to different hospitals until July 3. The four contingents, made of 30 medical experts each, are part of East African Community (EAC) Civil Military Cooperation (CIMIC). Both the UPDF and Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) medical teams, are operating at Nyamata District Hospital and offering general medicine, Ear-Nose-Throat ENT) surgery, dental and eye treatment, anaethesia, orthopaedrics, general surgery, and gynaecology, among others, as part of their contribution to this year’s free one-week civil military activities in Rwanda.
The two countries (Uganda and Rwanda) have been bickering over alleged Museveni's support for Rwandan armed dissidents. Usually, such bickering, if not tamed escalates into an armed confrontation which is fought by soldiers. Therefore, under normal circumstances, military personnel are the target. That is why, though a member of the EAC, Burundi, which is facing the same situation with Rwanda did not send its military medics to Rwanda. For Uganda, Museveni feels his grand children are more of a target by Rwanda's hostility than his army officers. As we have repeatedly argued, the key protagonists on the side of Uganda are the Hima clique. That is why you hear of Gen. Saleh, Gen. Tumukunde, Gen. Kandiho and a few others.
In a March 2011 Television interview with a Kenyan Journalist, Jeff Koinange, Museveni blatantly put it as to what he was working for. He was more concerned about his children and grandchildren than other Ugandans.
Jeff Koinange:
"Do you wake up sometimes, and feel, you know what, this is too much. You don't feel appreciated enough."
Museveni:
"It doesn't matter; I am working for myself. I am not working for other people. I am working for my grandchildren; for my children."
In January 2017 Museveni corroborated the above statement thus;
‘‘I hear some people saying that I am their servant, I am not a servant of anybody. I am a freedom fighter, that is what I do. I don’t do it because I am your servant, I’m not your servant. I am just a freedom fighter, I am fighting for myself or my beliefs. That’s how I come in, I’m not an employee.
If anybody thinks he gave me a job, he is deceiving himself. I am just a freedom fighter whom you thought could help you also,’‘ he stated.
In his September 2018 public address, Museveni urged parents to plan for their children saying that his children are lucky not to have suffered thanks to his planning.
“I have planned at a personal level for your sisters and brothers who stay in my house. That is why you don’t see my daughters looking for jobs. I saved for them assets, property.”
Talking about the high youth unemployment, Museveni said parents are to blame as they did not plan well for their children causing many to leave the country to work in Middle East countries.
"................You don’t see my children looking for jobs because they are busy with their wealth. Some parents don’t plan for their children and neither do they bequeath their wealth to them,” Museveni said.
In Oct 2003, Museveni spent at least £20,000 from state coffers flying his daughter to Europe in his presidential jet so she could have a baby in a western hospital. Natasha Museveni gave birth to a daughter in Germany and was flown home to Uganda a month later. Opposition politicians attacked the "waste" but Museveni refused to apologise, claiming security threats against his family left him no choice.
"When it comes to medical care for myself and my family there is no compromise," he said in a statement.
Sources in Uganda said the round-trip for Mr Museveni's daughter cost £70,000 but the presidency in Kampala said it cost around £20,000. It would take a Ugandan on the average national wage 85 years to earn that amount. In his defiant statement, Museveni said he was a constant target for assassins, who would not hesitate in using local doctors to breach his security services.
"I regard myself and my immediate family as a principal target for the criminal forces," he said.
Therefore, it is now clear that unlike the Burundi situation, Rwanda is not hostile to the Uganda army but to Museveni's family which comprises of all the Bahima ethnic group. That is why Gen. Kandiho cannot dare step in Rwanda but Col. Edson Nahabwe who led the team of medics from Uganda was warmly received.
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