{UAH} Apparently, 87 tapes are yet to be released by the Mbabazi supporters! This is so serious!
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Mistrust: Kale Kayihura (L) talks to Amama Mbabazi
In the leaked clip, Kayihura warns the youths that the under-fire Prime Minister would drop them like hot potatoes after achieving his political objectives.
In the conversation which The Observer has listened to, Kayihura draws a comparison between Mbabazi and the biblical false prophets that Jesus warned his followers about.
He said: "Before Jesus comes back, we are told, there will be false prophets. I have never deviated from [President] Museveni's line. I use the police budget to do my work. I have never used my position for my personal benefit like some people.
We [Mbabazi and I] all draw our power from the president but I use my power to build the Police Force. I want you to ask him as secretary general what he has done to build a strong foundation. So, did the president refuse him to build a foundation for the party?"
Kayihura tells the youths that if chaos broke out as a result of divisions within NRM, Mbabazi and his family "would flee the country", leaving them alone to suffer.
Sources familiar with the recording have told us that the meeting took place in Gomba district last month.
Around the same time, the police started arresting pro-Mbabazi youths who were collecting signatures intended to force a delegates' conference that would quash the Kyankwanzi resolution. The resolution adopted overwhelmingly by NRM MPs at their last retreat in Kyankwanzi endorsed President Museveni as the party's sole candidate.
The latest audio recording could be part of the 87 tapes, which Kayihura claims were stolen from the police recently. A police spokesman, Patrick Onyango, said the tapes contain interviews between Kayihura and several witnesses familiar with an alleged plot to assassinate the police chief.
At the weekend, a senior police detective in the CIID's department of political crimes was detained on suspicion of leaking the tapes to Jacqueline, the wife of Mbabazi. Jacqueline had promised in an earlier interview with Daily Monitor that she would release to the public a recording of Kayihura coaching youths to frame her family.
Pro-Museveni
In this particular recording that spans one hour, 47 minutes and 17 seconds, Gen Kayihura, speaking in a blend of Luganda and English, sounds more of an NRM and pro-Museveni activist than the impartial Inspector General of Police he is supposed to be.
He sounds deeply concerned that Mbabazi's political activities might destroy NRM, and possibly endanger the country.
"Don't you see what is happening there in South Sudan? There is war. Don't be deceived by Mbabazi. No one in Uganda is going to help you like President Museveni, and I am not saying this because he appointed me to this position. It is important for you to have focus because if you don't, people will use you as mercenaries," Kayihura told the youths.
Drawing from his personal bush war experience, he pleaded with the youths to stick with Museveni much as they are not benefitting financially from mobilising for NRM.
"For me to join the bush war it took me sometime. I was abroad doing a master's degree but I decided that I will have to join the struggle. I joined in 1983 and it was not easy. Others fell by the wayside. I did not join because I wanted to benefit. I do not own even a kiosk, you can investigate.
I come from Kisoro but there are some youths of your age who own two houses there. For me I do not even own a house there. If I wanted to get rich, I would not have joined the struggle. After my master's I got a teaching job in Ibadan University in Nigeria but I turned it down. I have not lost focus. Some people may think I am stupid for not building a house. How many people have fled Uganda and left their property around? [Gen David] Sejusa had a lot of property, where is he?"
Going by what some of the youths said in the recording, it appears they were previously active in the opposition-led walk-to-work protests of 2011 only to be swayed to the NRM side with promises of money and a good life.
One of them, from Gomba, told Kayihura that he was forced to do some mobilisation work for Mbabazi in his village because he did not have food at home.
Vulnerable
"This thing of [Mbabazi mobilizing] is true. People have been trying to lure us but we are vulnerable because we have no money. The other day someone approached me with Shs 200,000 and wanted me to do some mobilisation. How would you expect me to turn it down when I have no food at home?" the youth said.
Another youth from Buikwe told Kayihura that he had discovered that the only way to benefit from this government was by being an avid critic.
"There are people from DP in our area who were taken to meet the president and they came back to mock us after they had been given money," he said. "They told us, 'now you people fight for NRM and get nothing and us who fight it benefit'."
Unlike in the previously-published recording in which Kayihura did most of the listening, in the latest tape he does most of the talking. He is heard saying that by using party structures to push his personal agenda, Mbabazi was breaking all the rules in the book. He told the youths that the police had evidence that Mbabazi's mobilisers were using money to bribe delegates to sign the petition against the Kyankwanzi resolution.
He said: "They are abusing Museveni in their campaign. What they are doing is wrong because if the president uses the law, they will be finished. Why is he using fraud, money to deceive supporters? Why doesn't he use that money to do for you projects?"
In the short run, Kayihura promised to get the youths some money to start a poultry project but in the long run, he promised to talk to the President or the permanent secretary in the ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, to consider empowering them through the Youth Livelihood Programme.
Through projects such as poultry, Kayihura bragged that he had managed to lure to NRM some youths in Masaka who had been previously enthusiastic supporters of opposition politician Matthias Mpuuga, the Masaka Municipality MP.
Some of the youths told Kayihura that they wanted him to organise a meeting between them and the president but the police chief told them this would not be easy.
"Let me tell you, to get the president is not easy. I call the switchboard, they tell me to call again in the evening. Sometimes it takes a week to get him. You have to know that the president is not only for Uganda but he is needed in the region," he said.
Money from China
The police chief added that Mbabazi's promises are hot air just like Dr Kizza Besigye's who allegedly promised to give youths houses in Kololo. Kayihura alleged that Mbabazi had got money from China after telling the Chinese that he is the anointed heir of President Museveni.
Fred Enanga, the new police spokesman, told The Observer yesterday that while he had not listened to the latest recording and therefore cannot comment about it, the arrest of the pro-Mbabazi youths had not been a partisan act.
"The constitution implores the Police Force to be nationalistic and patriotic while discharging our duties. So, if we arrest people on the basis that they have committed a crime, we are not being partisan," Enanga explained.
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