UGANDA: WHY MUSEVENI'S MINISTER KIBUULE CANT BE CHARGED WITH ABUSE OF OFFICE

 

By CHANGE OF GUARDS

On the evening of the January 14 election day, Museveni's cabinet Minister, Ronald Kibuule, ordered his ten SFC bodyguards to take over the role of the Electoral Commission (EC) in Mukono District.  After realizing that he was losing the Mukono North Constituency polls to NUP's Kiwanuka, Minister Kibule ordered his ten SFC guards to storm the results collection center at Kyampisi Sub-county headquarters.  Dressed in civilian clothes and heavily armed, his ten SFC soldiers stormed Kyampisi Sub-county Headquarters at Midnight.  They disarmed the police officers who, together with the EC officials, were waiting for a vehicle to collect the election results to be taken to the district headquarters at Mukono.  They grabbed all the ballot boxes, the ballots and the Results Declaration Forms before loading them together with the police guns and driving off in their car.  

The disarmed police personnel sought for reinforcement from Mukono who came and recovered the robbed guns that had been abandoned a short distance from the said Sub-county headquarters.  A police search for the other missing materials at the Minister's residence revealed nothing.  However, the stollen election materials were mysteriously found in the EC car that was supposed to have collected them from Kyampisi Sub-county.  At the district tally center at Mukono, the same Minister's ten heavily armed SFC guards forced the District Election Registrar to declare false poll results in favor of Minister Kibuule.  The DPC of Mukono attempt to disarm the ten SFC guards but met stiff resistance and he had to call for reinforcement from Kampala that they were finally overpowered.  The army claimed to have withdrawn the said guards and left the Minister with the bodyguards from Counter Terrorism Police but sources confirm that a fresh batch of soldiers was deployed instead.  Minister  Kibuule is not an ordinary parliamentarian and cabinet Minister.  He is highly connected to the Museveni rulling monarchy as confirmed by his huge and specialized security detail.  He has always been kidnaping, arresting and detaining without trial his political opponents.  He is a leading landgraber in Mukono.  

How could the police allow gunmen in civilian clothes to disarm them without a fight?  They ought to face charges of cowardice in action and grave negligence. It is also most likely that the police at Kyampisi connived with Kibuule for a stagemanaged raid.  How could the EC in Mukono accept to receive poll results from gunmen instead of its local EC officials and their police escorts?  There could have been some connivance by some EC officials with Kibuule and may be that is why they even delayed to collect the materials from Kyampisi.  This incident is just a sample of what transpired in the entire country during the recently concluded polls.  Not to venture during the much discredited Obote's 1980 general elections did an incident of such magnitude take place.  Obviously the said SFC soldiers were acting on orders of Minister Kibuule but Museveni cannot bring charges of abuse of office against Kibuule because he is the son of Zefania Lusebeya and Grace Naguta (the male are named Kaguta). 

INFORMATION IS POWER AND THE PROBLEM OF UGANDA IS MUSEVENISM