{UAH} Museveni Puts Jennifer Musisi Under 24/7 Watch

Museveni Puts Jennifer Musisi Under 24/7 Watch

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Published on 26 August 2014

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President Fears KCCA Iron Lady is Progressively Turning into Modern Day Col Abdullah Nasur, Tasks IGP Kayihura to Keep a Close Eye on 'Errant Girl'

By Stephen K Muwambi and Benson Tumusiime

  Jennifer Musisi

President Yoweri Museveni is increasingly getting irritated by Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) boss Jennifer Musisi Ssemakula's 'miscalculations', according to classified info available to The Investigator.

Museveni is concerned that Musisi's rushed actions have the undesirable potential of discounting his political dividends, more so in the city where he has made outstanding political gains. This is why the President, we have it on good authority, now wants Jennifer tamed for the good of his office and the NRM government.

"Museveni does not want to have another Col Nasur in the city. He has had enough of Musisi's miscalculations. He now wants to put his foot down and say enough is enough," one of Museveni's PR strategists mused when contacted.

For starters, Col Nasur was Governor of Kampala during dictator Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada's regime. Accounts hold Nasur in bad light and it is alleged he used to whip and imprison people he deemed to have soiled the city. So vilified is Nasur, it is even alleged he made people who came to Kampala in slippers eat the foot wear.

When Amin's government fell, Nasur was arrested and imprisoned in Luzira. Successive Presidents kept Nasur in prison till President Museveni finally felt pity on the Colonel and released him a few years back.

Given such a record, Musisi and or any other leader, would not like to be likened to the man's leadership style in any way.

Museveni had at first rejected his PR and political handlers 'counsel, which seemed to suggest that she (Musisi) was ruining his and the government's image.

Sources within Museveni's PR machine told us that her promoters had made Museveni believe that all her critics fell in the old KCC camp.Accordingly, the President took it that that the critics had a bone to pick with her for sabotage.

 "This is why Musisi managed to get away with the inhumane eviction of vendors and hundreds from Railways land," a number of Museveni's political strategists reached for comment voiced.

The much praised Musisi seems to have faded in Museveni's eye and mind, after the Railways' evictions and lately the taxi-men's opening- week- strike.

President Museveni is reported to be fed up of Musisi's antics

Museveni reportedly cleared the eviction of hundreds of people on Railways land after KCCA's ED convinced him that the Rift Valley Railways (RVR) Investors had ready trains waiting to roll out to ease jams on the city roads.

Hundreds were thus evicted and the exercise was done in an inhumane of fashion. KCCA officials raided in the dead of the night with bull dozers which they used to pull down houses in a fashion akin to skits from Mafioso movies.

In the process, hundreds of people had walls collapsing on them. Many escaped with both broken limbs and hearts. Property worth millions of shillings was lost and damaged in the process. Not even wails from single mums, widows and children could deter Musisi from carrying through the exercise.

Apart from households, Railway lands held countless booming businesses. From Ndeeba, through Katwe, Kinawattaka, Banda to Bweyogerere, wails rung the air as small time businesspeople lost their source of survival. Many had obtained loans to put up businesses while others had sold land to realize capital.

To the President's shock, after the eviction, he learnt that the RVR investors did not have immediate plans to roll in the trains.

"The investors made losses when Musisi first interested them into bringing in trains during an earlier taxi-men strike. They had accordingly learned their lessons therefore would not rush to repeat such mistake," our impeccable sources said.

On getting this intelligence briefing, President Museveni called KCCA boss and directed her to stop evicting people off Railways' land, until he had studied the matter deeply. All the same, the President's PR and political handlers had finally scored a big plus in the face of their boss against Musisi.

Meanwhile, the TAPSCOM guys, new managers of taxi business in the city are, energized by their godfathers in KCCA threatened the worst for taxi drivers, who would refuse to ignite the engine of their items of trade.

TAPSCOM's measures, as usual included impounding offending taxis, blacklisting striking drivers, which means denying them stage rights and passengers as well as handing them over to the organization's godfathers in police and KCCA for prosecution.

TAPSCOM, reportedly run several adverts on FM Radio Stations, announcing the suspension of the strike. They assured passengers that actually the taxis would operated as normally.

With city Police administration and KCCA fully behind them, TAPSCOM slept soundly on Sunday. They were convinced there was no way taxi drivers would dare face off with a determined and friendly police and KCCA officials. Come Monday, however, the taxi-men carried out their threat.

Taxis did not make routes to pick passengers. Hundreds of Ugandans trekked to town on foot. Hours of productive work was wasted on walking miles on foot to town.

Museveni's PR handlers seized the moment to extract their revenge. Pictures of hundreds of people footing like cows, went viral on social media. They showed desperate people making do with Dr Kiiza Besigye's literally outlawed "walk to work" alternative. The President was not amused.

Museveni called Police boss IGP Gen Kale Kayihura just like The Investigator broke the story yesterday. The Commander- in-Chief told his loyal soldier cum policeman to immediately call a meeting to put an end to the Musisi/ taxi-men's nonsense.

Briefed that she had always refused to meet the taxi-men, Museveni directed Kayihura to have her or any other big person lead the KCCA team to the peace talks with the taxi-men but one Madam Tumusiime represented the KCCA boss.

Held at Naguru Police Headquarters, the marathon meeting meandered into the night and at the end of it, the hitherto mighty TAPSCOM had been suspended and its owners directed to appoint among them people to represent them at a new interim committee that would have taxi-men, police and KCCA staff.

Finally, President Museveni has undone what Jennifer had blessed and it's only the beginning. This could easily end the Aida Nantaba way.

Edited by Almeidah Karemani

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