{UAH} Opposition against Museveni gaining political space - Sejusa

Gen David Sejusa dismisses rumours against FUF leaders as the last kicks of a dying horse

The former Ugandan coordinator of military intelligence has warned those opposed to President Yoweri Museveni to look out for negative campaigns from Kampala that are seeking to tarnish the leadership of the Freedom and Unity Front (FUF) organisation that he helped found late last year.

In a press release he issued Friday, Gen David Sejusa who has been self-exiled in the United Kingdom since April last year said the fact that Ugandan authorities ware targeting the FUF proves that the Front is “steadily gaining political space and galvanising our people’s resolve to defeat that dictatorship”.

While the general who served for more than 30 years with President Yoweri Museveni did not name his former boss or anybody else in the Ugandan government by name, many believe he was responding to rumours that have been  widely circulated in the social media that President Museveni had sent him at least a million US dollars that were deposited in a Swiss Bank account for his use at about the same time that he was helping launch the FUF in London last December to campaign against Museveni and facilitate his removal from power.

A Ugandan woman who was the sole protester at the FUF launch is once again in the news, this time as the person who is making what she allegedly says ‘is proof that Gen Sejusa is still in close touch with the Ugandan leader’. The woman who derives from northern Uganda but goes by the name of Monique Wyatt, was unceremoniously bundled out of the FUF launch at the London School of Economics when she shouted as the launch was getting on that Gen Sejusa was “a war criminal” whose hands were full of the blood of innocent people during the 1990s when most of that part of Uganda was at war with Museveni’s National Resistance Army.

But a popular Face Book blogger who goes by the name of “TVO” revealed that Ms Wyatt had been found to be under the employment of the Ugandan security services in their attempts to thwart the growing intensity of opposition against President Museveni.

Gen Sejusa said attempts to discredit him only prove one thing; that the FUF is succeeding in its attempts to unseat the Ugandan leader. He wrote: “All these point to one basic fact; FUF is steadily gaining political space and galvanising      our people’s resolve to defeat that dictatorship.” He went on to add: “With each victory we gain, the enemy becomes weaker but also more desperate in his methods. Therefore we should not be surprised when he deploys raw and fascist methods to counter our success.”

The general who became the highest ranking army officer in the Ugandan Peoples Defence Forces to flee into exile, said while the success of the opposition against Museveni can be measured in many ways, three are quite distinctive. He said first of all, the mass growth in those wanting to bring about regime change in Uganda has since gone beyond the FUF. He explained that this now includes the momentum gained by other movements outside the FUF whose goal is similar to that of his movement. It also includes “overt and covert [momentums] in the opposition both in and outside the country”. In this the general may have been talking about the numerous opposition fronts that has been formed since he publicly declared his opposition against Museveni once he had reached the safety of the United Kingdom.

The second way, according to Gen Sejusa in which opposition against Gen Museveni can be measured, is the current paralysis in the NRM government. “Our success as a matter of course comes at the expense of the enemy’s own strength and has a toll as it leads to the collapse of the enemy’s centre of control,” he reasoned.

The third way that opposition against Museveni can be measured, Gen Sejusa went on, was the way the NRM government under Museveni was brutally dealing with those opposed to it. “When a government is strong, it uses soft power. It’s only a weak regime that employs raw hard power. Use of hard power on one’s own population is a sign of weakness not strength.

Sejusa said that there are signs that the Museveni regime is slowly but surely becoming isolated internationally as those that used to sing its success are fast withdrawing their support and avoiding being related in any way with it. “Another point is the collapse of the formal state and collapse of the economy, the social services sector and increase in personalised rule. These show that the opposition forces are gaining ground and momentum,” he opined.

He cautioned that as the Museveni regime gets nearer to its last days, those in the opposition must all the time be constantly vigilant, constantly suspicious of the enemy’s intentions, and constantly mobile, not assuming anything. He said these were the four basic principles tested and lived over the ages during revolutionary warfare.

Having successfully fought a bush way with Museveni and got into power, Gen Sejusa is in a good position when he warns those in the opposition that the struggle for liberation is a huge undertaking that requires that they all be alert and aware of enemy actions. “To this end, I have time and again warned all our members and to a large extent, all those in the opposition who are engaged in this struggle in one way or the other to be careful about enemy infiltration. I have also advised on how to safeguard ourselves against such enemy attacks,” he said.

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