{UAH} Sejusa: Katumba, Mugira aren't safe
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In his latest 7,800-word missive, renegade Gen David Sejusa warns that senior army officers and senior political figures will be targeted in the next "phase of national purges and repression by the ruling NRM."
Sejusa, formerly Uganda's coordinator of intelligence, claims in the statement released recently:, "these [officers] include the current minister of Internal Affairs, Gen Aronda Nyakairima, Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, Maj Gen James Mugira, and even current Chief of Defence Forces, Gen Katumba Wamala."
According to Sejusa, previously known as Tinyefuza, Katumba was appointed CDF only temporarily, "as the hand of Brig Muhoozi Kainerugaba [President Museveni's son] is strengthened within the overall military command structures."
Before he went to exile one year ago, Sejusa wrote a document in which he alleged that senior government officials opposed to the elevation of Brig Muhoozi to the presidency, among them Nyakairima and Mbabazi, were at risk of elimination. It is now the first time that he is dragging in Katumba Wamala's name.
Reacting to the remarks, Gen Katumba told The Observer on May 19, that the NRM government, especially the army, does not use crude methods of eliminating supposed opponents.
"We all come to serve and do assigned beats as expected for our nation. If time comes for you to move, you move on. What makes me proud is the way I perfectly serve my country. Even at my rank, I don't believe in the gun protecting me, but God," Katumba told The Observer on Monday.
The general added that if soldiers were to act on warnings from the likes of Sejusa, they would not do their work professionally because there are different threats coming from groups such as Al-Shabab, Al-Qaeda, ADF and Joseph Kony's LRA.
"In modern politics, no serious government thinks of eliminating its opponents. If we could be cowed by these threats, then the country would not go anywhere," Katumba said.
In the statement, Sejusa also claims that a UPDF flight cadet pilot Lt Jesse Doreen Nakato has fled to the Netherlands.
"…RO/12008 Lt Jesse Doreen Nakato, a cadet pilot attached to Augusta bell squadron Uganda People's Defence Air Force, fled the country and is determined to tell her story to inspire others like her to rise up against the Museveni regime," Sejusa wrote.
"Before she fled to the Netherlands, Lt Jesse Doreen Nakato is believed to have been detained and tortured on allegations of supporting subversive activities within the UPDF, and in particular supporting a purported coup led by General David Sejusa…"
Nakato
Apart from Nakato, Sejusa claims Captain Michael Kanyamunyu, who was in charge of the Special Investigations Bureau of the Special Forces Command (SFC), fled to the United States.
"Many of these virtuous patriots have now fled to an uncertain life in exile to escape imminent death at the hands of the vicious regime," he says.
Interviewed at the weekend, army spokesman Lt Col Paddy Ankunda said Sejusa's claims were baseless. He added that the army cannot waste its precious time discussing Sejusa's "wishful thinking."
"Whereas Sejusa's FUF [Freedom and Unity Front] claims Capt Kanyamunyu is in USA, all I know is that he is in Uganda; for Nakato, that one I really don't know her," Ankunda said on Saturday.
Sejusa warns Ugandans to prepare for the worst violation of human rights, as the 'national liberation struggle' enters a critical phase.
"The country is going to witness a fatally-wounded regime that is steeped in unprecedented anti-people hostility and violence," the statement says.
Across the country, Sejusa says, youth leaders are being arrested and held "without charge or on spurious charges of different kinds."
He cites pro-Mbabazi youths who he says have paid the price of daring to take part in anti-regime campaigns. Some youths allied to the prime minister and NRM secretary general were in March arrested and charged for alleged abuse of office in relation to their pro-Mbabazi political activities. The charges were eventually dropped, and these youths now appear to be softening their stance following meetings with President Museveni.
In his statement, Sejusa claims the targets for elimination are not exclusively opposition leaders such as Dr Kizza Besigye but also senior army officers, security personnel, former soldiers and bush-war veterans.
"Examples of officers already marked for elimination are Brigadier Michael Ondoga and several of his fellow officers who were commanding the African peacekeeping force in Somalia, and the recently-arrested Major Herbert Muramagi, who has been the Head of Marines in the Internal Security Organisation (ISO)."
Ondoga and Muramagi are facing different charges in the army court martial.
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