By Our Reporters
Opposition Col Kizza Besigye has spoken out praising outgoing police chief Gen Kale Kayihura as a very good person who only came off bad because he served a decadent governance system. In a newly released brief statement, Besigye says that just like the late Noble Mayombo (RIP), Kayihura is a virtuous man who only lacked guts to say no to assignments requiring him to serve an evil regime. Dr. KB also says time has come for men of virtue to begin saying no to the job appointments by President Museveni. We hereby reproduce Besigye’s full statement with its original minor mistakes:
VERBATIM;
KAYIHURA WAS A GOOD MAN WHO SERVED BAD PRESIDENT
By Kiiza Besigye
WE NEED PEOPLE’S POLICE FORCE -We need a regular, disciplined and predictable police force with a doctrine. We need a People’s Police, not a coercive Police trained with manuals that make the, competent and equip them with necessary tools to manage and implement its doctrine. This police force must work and operate under the law.
The training and mission of the Police and military are totally different so why then do you have to recruit a military personnel to head the Police force, but because Mr Museveni is looking for loyalty to himself he deploys army officers to command police. How can Police fail to professional officer to manage it after 32yrs?
ON KALE KAYIHURA.
I knew Kayihura before he became a soldier and a tool of repression. As a person, he is a fine fellow. He is like Brig. Mayombo, good people who accept to be used in a manner that projects them as terrible creatures. He is an intelligent man. He’s not someone who set out to be a bad person. Kayihura is a very intelligent man. His actions are not without intelligence. Kayihura and his group are schemers and he chose to be a psychopath for that purpose.
But may be if Kayihura is not given another job, he will become a good person that we all can relate with again. However the new Police commanders will not change anything in the Police. They come at a time when the regime is at its weakest point. People should always have the decency to say no I won’t do this, resign and refuse. We must deal with where the Primary problem lies which is the system where few people with guns control the country.
That is why some of us who are struggling with this regime are now busy working on the transition because this cannot be carried further, how to procure the transition and make it happen is what we are focusing on now.
Dr. Kiiza Besigye
The People’s President of Uganda..
