{UAH} Panic As Ugandan Intelligence Suspects That Gen David Sejusa Could Stealthily Return For the Burial of His Brother

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Panic As Ugandan Intelligence Suspects That Gen David Sejusa Could Stealthily Return For the Burial of His Brother Dan Mutungi Who Passed Away In Mysterious Circumstances

By Fred Daka Kamwada

Panic has gripped Ugandan intelligence services with reports that the exiled UPDF Gen David Sejusa could secretly return home to attend the burial of his brother Dan Mutungi who passed way in alleged suicide incident discovered on Friday.

Sejusa’s young brother, Dan Mutungi, died this week and his body found in the pool after allegedly committing suicide.

Gen Sejjusa posted a commiserating message on his on social media (facebook account) and decried the circumstances under which his brother died in mysterious circumstances.

Gen Sejusa’s mother claimed that Mutungi was suffering from mental illness as result of missing the four-star general who went to exile in may this year after getting in a tango with the state for authoring a controversial letter that raffled the feathers of the appointing authority.

He since been holed up in the United Kingdom, where he has variously expressed his desire to uproot President Yoweri Museveni from power 

SHOCKING DEATH

The sudden death of his bother has since sent shock waves around the country with a host of pessimistic suggestions that there could be some foul play in Mutungi’s death since his elder brother has a spat with the state after authoring a letter that went ‘bad’.

While Gen Sejusa’s first letter looked like a joke that would pass the test of time his recent communiqués to Kampala and interviews with the international media have all been defiant and rebellious, a sign that he seems to have made up his mind to oppose president Museveni.

The Ugandan army (UPDF) which he has served for the last thirty years since 1981 when he joined it as treble outfit to-date has also declared him a deserter.

Last month the speaker of parliament, Hon Rebecca Kadaga also tasked him to appear before parliament or face the possibility of losing his seat as the army representative to the august house after missing 15 consecutive sittings.  But he failed to meet the requirements of the ultimatum and his seat is up for grabs right now.

The UPDF spokesman told the media that Gen Sejjusa had declared war on the state and had to face the consequences of his statements. While president Museveni also told the media that Sejusa would face the law (meaning a possible court martial trial) if he dares return to Kampala

And all these development s simply mean that his return was out of contention.

And now everything that needed to go wrong as indeed gone wrong as the news of his brother’s death also sinks in. it’s widely suggested that Mutungi was stressed because he had lost hope of seeing his brother again.  And trauma of missing his brother drove him to drown in a pond where he breathed his last.

The Mysterious Death

This week the Ugandan police took over the body of the deceased after getting contradicting reports about the cause of his death.

The media reported that the Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Director, Ms Grace Akullo, stopped the handing over of the body of Gen David Sejusa’s brother to the relatives for burial until a second opinion on the cause of his death had been made.

The recycled argument is that Mutungi first attempted suicide by hanging himself with a rope but he failed.

It is alleged that he then turned to poison, which did not react faster than he wished prompting him to run to the valley dam at his father’s farm at Bweyale village in Lugusulu Sub County, Sembabule District where he drowned on Friday evening.

Mutungi’s body was then transferred from Ssembabule District to Mulago National Referral Hospital for the post-mortem where three senior pathologists have been assigned to carry out the post-mortem to verify the cause of Mutungi’s death.

It was reported in the Ugandan dailies that the medical doctor attached to Sembabule Health Centre IV, Herbert Tumusiime, had carried out a post-mortem pointing to death to drowning and poison.

CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Mutungi’s death has sparked off a number of conspiracy theories with the prompting the Ugandan state to get worried that Mutungi’s death might be used against the government during the campaigns for the 2016 elections.

There are suggestions that there is foul play.

The same was alleged when Dr Kiiza Besigye’s brother a one Mr Kifeefe, also passed away in circumstances regarded as ‘unclear’.

There is also another incident where Singa Kazini , a bother to the late Maj gen James Kazini also died mysteriously sparking a wag of tongues in Kampala. But it was later discovered that he died of natural causes.

Despite of the official version (held by family members) that Dan Mutungi was suffering from a mental illness that saw him get admitted to Sembabule hospital, there are political undertones on the possible cause of his death doing the rounds.

And there are suggesting that Sejusa might smuggle himself in the country and commiserate with his family.

Dr Kiiza Besigye did the same when he clandestinely escaped into exile even when the security agencies were monitoring him on closely on a daily basis.

Gen David Sejusa’s Fact File

Gen Sejusa is a lawyer who joined Ugandan police force in the early 1980s but later defected to the bush to join president Museveni’s NRA rebel outfit in 1981.

During the NRA onslaught that brought NRA and president Museveni to power, Gen Sejusa commanded units that liberated parts of northern Uganda.

When formal ranks were introduced in 1988, Sejusa was a Brigadier but later became a Major General and Minister of State for Defence and was dispatched to northern Uganda to flush out the Alice Lakwena led rebels.

As an army representative in the National Resistance Council, he on Nov 28, 1996, told the parliamentary committee on Defence and Internal Affairs in a testimony the war in the north was not ending because of mismanagement and inefficiency of the army. He was ordered to appear before the High Command but he refused and instead applied to resign.

He wrote to Museveni: “I find it unjustified to continue serving in an institution whose bodies I have no faith in or whose views I do not subscribe to,� reads the 1996 resignation letter to Museveni, “…I know my own faults very well and I do not suppose I am an easy subordinate; I like to go my own way.�

He blasted as incompetent the then Minister of State for Defence, Amama Mbabazi, who had turned his resignation down, took the government to the Court of Appeal but the Supreme Court reversed his victory.

And after a long spell no katebe without deployment, Sejusa fell on hard times and sought Museveni’s favour who appointed him as coordinator of intelligence services a position he served until 2011, when Kampala City boss, Jenifer Musisi kicked him out of a house he had refused to vacate in Kololo.

He then started to engage the state in a spate of criticisms which later landed him in trouble with the Ugandan state.

The Return Of The Daredevil

And there are suggestions that the death of his beloved brother Dan Mutungi could entice him to make a daredevil return to the country he left in may this year and probably face the wrath of the state to secretly commiserate with his family.

But his return remains a matter of conjecture.

But in intelligence, you don’t take anything for granted.

And the Ugandan intelligence and security services have since been put on high alert to monitor the possible return of the man who declared war on the Ugandan state this year.

Watch this space for more interesting developments___________________________

Gwokto La'Kitgum

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