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POLICE TAKES OVER PUBLIC TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT TO COUNTER POLITICAL DEMONSTRATIONS.
Museveni's military government has been gradually militarising management of some public sectors for strategic financial and security considerations. It started with revenue collection in the mid 90s when squads of military personnel were formed into the notorious Special Revenue Protection Services (SRPS) under the command of Kalekyezi Kayihura. Then came the initially 'hostile' Police force whose militarisation process under Gen Kayihura is nearing COMPLETION
. The militarisation of wildlife law enforcement under Col. Charles Tusiime has already witnessed the scandalous theft of tons of ivory from the government strong rooms. The take over management of Kampala City Council by Museveni using both the Executive Director and the Minister for Kampala Frank Tumwebaze has seen the elected Mayor being denied his position and the brutality of city law enforcement under the command of AIP Kituuma Rusoke son of Museveni's chief ideologist Kajabago Karusoke. These days Minister Tumwebaze has changed the style of walking owing to the Yugoslav made Pistol that is always stuffed by his left hip. The management of some Mosques in Kampala by the Police has helped escalate wrangles that have witnessed the current gruesome murders of Muslim clerics. The recent take over of the agriculture sector by army officers under the command of Museveni's brother Gen Saleh and the army's manipulation of the Standard Railway Gauge project is another classic example of the militarisation process.
Much as the huge revenues accruing from Kampala City Council are a factor, opposition dominated Kampala city's voting patterns have been a thorn in Museveni's flesh. All those schemes of restructuring the city council and denying the Mayor access to his office are meant to tame the hostile Kampala voters. However, following the 2011 Walk to Work demonstrations in Kampala, Museveni got concerned by the potential for the opposition to easily mobilise an Arab Spring type of mass action. Leave alone the passive Kampala elites, the ordinary low income earners operating in markets, street vendors, bus and lorry drivers, taxi drivers and touts, and the potentially explosive unemployed youths sent shivers down Museveni's spine. The orchestration of current wrangling between the Nabugabo and Kikuubo TRADERS is part of this scheme. He has since then embarked on relocating street vendors, markets and taxi parks from the city center. The unresolved mysterious repeated market fires are all efforts towards this direction. The infiltration of soldiers, intelligence officers, police officers and crime preventers into the Kampala city law enforcement is meant to keep a 24 hours surveillance on any eventuality in the city center. The restricted movement of opposition icon Dr. Besigye and Mayor Lukwago is also a move in this direction. The alleged mismanagement of the city's transport sector is baseless because the wrangles were orchestrated by state functionaries. Previously, the earlier disbanded UTODA Chairman Haji Katongole was a leading Museveni political party mobiliser among the public transport sector players.
The current calls by the opposition for the masses to reclaim their constitutional right of regime change is not taken lightly by Museveni who intends to rule for life. Therefore the current take over of public transport management by Police is a security measure decision that was taken at higher levels and that is why it was announced by the Minister of Security. Next, they will take over management of mainstream churches since the born AGAIN churches have already been used to undermine the former. Then they will take over the institutions of higher learning.
The kicks of a dying horse are the toughest.
INFORMATION IS POWER.
. The militarisation of wildlife law enforcement under Col. Charles Tusiime has already witnessed the scandalous theft of tons of ivory from the government strong rooms. The take over management of Kampala City Council by Museveni using both the Executive Director and the Minister for Kampala Frank Tumwebaze has seen the elected Mayor being denied his position and the brutality of city law enforcement under the command of AIP Kituuma Rusoke son of Museveni's chief ideologist Kajabago Karusoke. These days Minister Tumwebaze has changed the style of walking owing to the Yugoslav made Pistol that is always stuffed by his left hip. The management of some Mosques in Kampala by the Police has helped escalate wrangles that have witnessed the current gruesome murders of Muslim clerics. The recent take over of the agriculture sector by army officers under the command of Museveni's brother Gen Saleh and the army's manipulation of the Standard Railway Gauge project is another classic example of the militarisation process.Much as the huge revenues accruing from Kampala City Council are a factor, opposition dominated Kampala city's voting patterns have been a thorn in Museveni's flesh. All those schemes of restructuring the city council and denying the Mayor access to his office are meant to tame the hostile Kampala voters. However, following the 2011 Walk to Work demonstrations in Kampala, Museveni got concerned by the potential for the opposition to easily mobilise an Arab Spring type of mass action. Leave alone the passive Kampala elites, the ordinary low income earners operating in markets, street vendors, bus and lorry drivers, taxi drivers and touts, and the potentially explosive unemployed youths sent shivers down Museveni's spine. The orchestration of current wrangling between the Nabugabo and Kikuubo TRADERS
is part of this scheme. He has since then embarked on relocating street vendors, markets and taxi parks from the city center. The unresolved mysterious repeated market fires are all efforts towards this direction. The infiltration of soldiers, intelligence officers, police officers and crime preventers into the Kampala city law enforcement is meant to keep a 24 hours surveillance on any eventuality in the city center. The restricted movement of opposition icon Dr. Besigye and Mayor Lukwago is also a move in this direction. The alleged mismanagement of the city's transport sector is baseless because the wrangles were orchestrated by state functionaries. Previously, the earlier disbanded UTODA Chairman Haji Katongole was a leading Museveni political party mobiliser among the public transport sector players. The current calls by the opposition for the masses to reclaim their constitutional right of regime change is not taken lightly by Museveni who intends to rule for life. Therefore the current take over of public transport management by Police is a security measure decision that was taken at higher levels and that is why it was announced by the Minister of Security. Next, they will take over management of mainstream churches since the born AGAIN
churches have already been used to undermine the former. Then they will take over the institutions of higher learning.The kicks of a dying horse are the toughest.
INFORMATION IS POWER.
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