By Mulengera Reporters
In around April 2013, the then powerful Coordinator of Intelligence Services Gen David Sejusa authored a missive in which he blew the whistle on what he called the “Muhoozi Kainerugaba Project.”
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Addressed to Brig Ronnie Balya who then was Director General ISO, the letter claimed that the President wanted to make his son MK the next President of Uganda and that there was a plot to liquidate senior government and security officers opposed to that.
These were named to be Sejusa himself, then CDF Aronda Nyakayirima and Amama Mbabazi who was Prime Minister of the country. Sejusa, who had some supervisory powers, directed Balya to investigate these claims and report back to him.
Daily Monitor and Red Pepper (which Gen Museveni subsequently closed) got the letter leaked to them and published stories about the same. The resultant bad publicity made Gen Museveni furious and things became hot for Sejusa who ended up fleeing the country for some exile in London.
The original Sejusa calculation was that fellow senior UPDF officers, who were perceived as equally being uncomfortable with the alleged MK Project, would make solidarity statements as he hid in London. This would overwhelm Gen Museveni and possibly push him into abandoning the alleged succession plan. Kasirye Gwanga was among those rubble rousers who Sejusa hoped would step forward and speak in his defense. Indeed Gwanga granted media interviews trying to associate himself with the Sejusa concerns.
TUMWINE COWARDISES
Desirous to understand the impact this was having inside the political system in Kampala and corridors of power, Sejusa one evening rang Gen Elly Tumwine. At first Tumwine, who at that time didn’t have any serious deployment apart from being one of the 10 UPDF MPs, immediately picked because he didn’t know the international line that was calling his cellphone was Sejusa’s.
When he realized it was Sejusa, whose communications security was naturally following closely, Tumwine blacklisted the number and stopped picking. Sejusa went as far sending messages saying ‘Gen David here’ but a demonstrably terrified Tumwine didn’t pick. Sejusa sent a young Muhima lady who was friendly to both of them.
The gorgeous Muhima lady, who is now a lawyer in Kampala, went and found Tumwine at Nommo Gallery that chilly evening. She told him Sejusa wants him to pick so that he consults him on what to do next. “Please tell him to just spare me and stop calling on my phone because I don’t want to be in problems with Mzee. Let him first make peace with the President and I will talk to him after that because I don’t want to be misunderstood to be part of his politics in London or wherever he is calling from,” Tumwine told the young lady. He went as far as switching off that specific telephone line just to placate himself from the Sejusa-related accusations.
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He was to totally keep his distance, fearing to be misunderstood, and only engaged or talked with Sejusa upon making peace with the President who allowed him back into the country. When he returned, an overjoyed Tumwine drove to his Naguru residence to check on Gen Sejusa who now says they hugged and cried as they reflected on the extent to which Gen Museveni had diverted from the ideals of the NRM revolutionary struggle. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [whatsapp line], 0779411734 & 0200900416 or email us at [email protected]).
