{UAH} Amama Mbabazi - FUF claims he is on list to be eliminated.

Ugandan MPs tell Gen Sejusa worrying state of affairs in Uganda

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Editorial Team

Ugandan Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi – FUF claims he is on list to be eliminated.

Information reaching The London Evening Post say Members of the Ugandan parliament have been holding secret talks in London with Gen David Sejusa, the exiled former chief coordinator of Uganda's military intelligence, in which they discussed the on-going liberation struggle and how Ugandans within Uganda and across the world can participate effectively.

The meeting was confirmed by the head of communications at the Freedom and Unity Front, a Ugandan opposition movement co-founded in London by Gen Sejusa, Dr Vincent Magombe. The nearly 8,000 word document, which is being run on our Features Page, the MPs told the general how since he left Uganda a year ago, the Museveni government has been aggressively going after everyone perceived to be against his nearly 30-year old rulership, particularly those who dare raise their voices against the ruling family in search of freedom and democracy.

The MPs, whose identities have not been revealed for their own safety, are said to have briefed Gen Sejusa that entire communities in Uganda are being brutalised and dehumanised with the aim of rendering them incapable of resisting state terrorism and repression. The state under President Museveni, has now set on targeting for elimination, opposition leaders like Kampala Lord Mayor Elias Lukwago in an attempt to silence the calls for a change in the country's leadership that are spreading like a wild fire across the nation.

The FUF report says there is now proof that the Uganda Police Flying Squad is among the killer squads established around the country on the orders of President Museveni. "They wear police uniforms and often carry all the prerequisites of public enforcement equipment like tear gas canisters and pepper sprays but their ammunition supplies include more powerful guns and other military-style gadgets," the report says. It goes on to add that members of this squad are 'highly trained in elimination skills including the use of poisons and other deadly chemicals and terror methods'.  "An early victim of these target killings is believed to be [the late MP] Cerinah Nebanda," the report adds but clarifies that murder by poisoning in Uganda 'predates' Nebanda's death back to the death of the likes of Brig Noble Mayombo, the former intelligence chief and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Defence.

It further goes on to say that while this type of eliminations had been intended to opposition leaders like Dr Kizza Besigye, the former leader of the country's still main opposition political party, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), it looks like it has now been extended to include senior military officers seen to be at odds with the ruling family. It went on to reveal that those now targeted for elimination include Brig Michael Ondoga and many of his fellow officers who were ion command of the Ugandan mission to Somalia until they were abruptly removed and placed under military custody where they were later aligned in front of a court martial. It further revealed that Major Herbert Muramagi who until recently was head of the Marines in the Internal Security Organisation who is now under detention, is also marked for elimination. Maj Muramagi was suspected of plotting to kill Gen Museveni and the president's son Brig Kainerugaba.

FUF says in its report that it has credible information that President Museveni has directed that the Uganda Police should be rid of 'anyone suspected of having sympathies to the anti-regime opposition' that is now strongly gathering steam. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has been directed, according to the report, to "place special intelligence operatives in all strategic government ministries" and be placed in charge of the current national ID project. It revealed that the recent announcement that all current Ugandan passports would be withdrawn and replaced with new ones, is an attempt by Museveni to deny citizenship to opposition leaders and activists living outside the country.

Gen David Sejusa who hosted Uganda MPs recently and discussed means of removing Museveni from power.

The visiting Ugandan MPs confided in Gen Sejusa that there was now a total breakdown of law and order in the country and a near breakdown in the command structure of the police, the army and the security services. "This is a crucial factor explaining why the regime seems to be resorting to extreme forms of intimidation and sowing fear in the general public as a way of stamping out any critical voices, especially those questioning the illegal and unconstitutional manner in which Museveni is clinging to power," the FUF report further reveals.

Another killer squad that the FUF report mentions is what is known as the Presidential Police Force (PPF). It said that while the PPF hides under the emblem of the Uganda Police force, it is in fact being commanded by senior officers attached to State House, the official residence of Ugandan leaders and to the Special Forces Group (SFG). The PPF is understood to be made up of hundreds of SFGs and their main duty is to forcefully disrupt and contain all forms of public protests and prevent what could easily turn out to be like a North Africa style of revolution by Ugandans against the Museveni dictatorship.

The FUF says that in its fear of the growing opposition to its leadership, the Museveni regime has now resorted to "using tramped-up charges to sow fear and terror in the hearts of Ugandans". This was clearly reticent, the FUF said, in the recent arrest and torture of security services personnel including those from the SFG suspected of having connections with Gen Sejusa.

This has prompted several army and air force officers to flee the country and seek asylum in Europe and the United States. These include, among others, Lt Jesse Doreen Nakato, a cadet pilot in the Uganda Air Force who has since fled to the Netherlands and will soon be telling her own story. She's believed to have been detained and tortured on allegations that she was supporting rebel activities within the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) and allegedly part of an attempted coup said to have been planned by Gen Sejusa.

Condemning the arrest and torture of these UPDF officers, the FUF said these were "brazen acts of a murderous and paranoid dictator who is haunted by the fear of the unknown and whose entire preoccupation was to forcefully stay in power while illegally consolidating his stranglehold on the levers of power and selfishly entrenching an unwarranted family dictatorship over the whole country.

In his efforts to silence the growing opposition against his leadership, the FUF said it had now established that other senior army officers and senior political figures are set to be targeted by Museveni in the "next phase of national purges and repression". These, said the FUF, include Gen Nyakairima, Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, Maj Gen James Mugira and Gen Katumba Wamala, the army chief who is said to have been given his post temporarily as the president's son gathers strength within the UPDF command structure. At the end of the meeting with the Ugandan MPs, a committee of three was set up to carry out a detailed study on the question of means and methods that should be applied to defeat the Museveni dictatorship. Other two committees were also set up whose details were unavailable as we went late to bed.

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