{UAH} SUSPICIOUS SECURITY INCIDENTS EXPOSE KABAKA NAD KATIKKIRO TO DANGER
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- Dec 6, 2014
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(No Ratings Yet)On November 28, 2014 the Katikkiro of Buganda was on his way back from a Ttofaali fund raising trip to Bulemeezi when his long car convoy got an unwelcome member along Sir Apollo Kaggwa Road in Kampala. A man, who was reported to be named Jackson Nimwijukye, inserted his car into the convoy next to the vehicle that carried the Shs 100 million that the Katikkiro had collected from the people of Bulemeezi. The car carrying the collection was between a police lead pick-up and the Katikkiro's 4-wheel drive Toyota.
The Katikkiro's military guards drew their guns and ordered the intruder to leave the convoy but, to their surprise, he also pulled out a gun. The guards, commanded by one Lutwaama Musaazi, overpowered Mr. Nimwijukye and drove him to Bulange where they interrogated him briefly before handing him to the Ugandan police.
This is not the first time that random DRIVERS
have tried to drive too close to long government official convoys, to avoid or beat traffic. However, there is no record of a security incident where guns are drawn and there is a risk of shooting so close to a Katikkiro. This seems partly because Owek. Mayiga is the first Katikkiro in the history of Buganda to enjoy full-time armed military guards from the NRM government and to travel in a large convoy, comparable to that of the Kabaka. His predecessor, Owek. Walusimbi, and before him Muliika and Ssemwogerere, had no military guards and frequently travelled by themselves.
Mayiga Convoy in Ankole – Collecting Ettofaali
An even more risky incident occurred over the next weekend at an outdoor ceremony in Masaka, Buddu County. After the Uganda vice president, Edward Ssekandi joined Kabaka Mutebi II and his Katikkiro in a tent, one of his plain clothes military body guards tried to sit behind the Kabaka as if to protect Ssekandi, a commoner (omukopi) against Ssabasajja. The Buganda Government minister in charge of Kabaka's Tours, Mariam Nkalubo, intervened and, after a scuffle, Ssekandi's guard was removed and disarmed by the Kabaka's military guard. In what appeared to be a display of arrogance and defiance, Ssekandi refused to speak when later requested to say a few words. The scuffle between the different armed units took place so close to the Kabaka that it exposed the king to a risk of gun fire.
It remains unclear why all of a sudden the Kabaka and his Katikkiro were exposed to such danger only days apart. The different military security teams that guard the Kabaka, the Katikkiro and Ssekandi are all members of the Uganda security forces, with the same top commander, President Museveni. Even the man who inserted himself in the Katikkiro's convoy, Jackson Nimwijukye, is reportedly a member of the same Ugandan security forces. One possibility is that the various security units have such poor training and command structure that they do not understand their areas of responsibility.
Another, even more worrying possibility, would be if the incidents were staged to intimidate the Kabaka and his Katikkiro or to gauge the mood of Baganda. For example, around the time of the Kayunga protests, still unknown Uganda security groups fired gunshots over the Kabaka's motorcade in Kampala when he had refused to return President Museveni's calls. Because the police did not charge anyone, many Baganda speculated that the shootings were staged to intimidate Ssabasajja Kabaka.
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