{UAH} OPPOSITION MOBILIZES CIVIL SOCIETY AS MUSEVENI MOBILIZES '' MILITARY SOCIETY''

OPPOSITION MOBILIZES CIVIL SOCIETY AS MUSEVENI MOBILIZES '' MILITARY SOCIETY''

The army has in the past been openly involved in Museveni's rigging of elections in Uganda. For decades, Museveni was not trusting the Police force since it had been dominated by personnel from regions that he considered hostile to his regime. Over the years since his most trusted party cadre from the army Gen Kale Kayihura took over command of the Police force, he has brought on board youthful party cadres who have taken over command of strategic areas of the force. Because of lack of trust in that past police, he would dress soldiers in Police uniform at Makindye barracks before dispatching them for party errands. At one time he publicly told the old 'UPC Police' that unless they learn to vote wisely, their welfare will never improve. It was an open secret that at any polling station within the vicinity of a Police barracks, the opposition votes would defeat Museveni. changeofguards.blogspot.ca In order to tame the Police, he has been seconding army officers to the command of the Police. He has since been restructuring the Police force and its training and logisticalREQUIREMENTS to give it a disguised military status. One of the demands advanced by the opposition in their current electoral reforms proposals has been the removal of the army in the electoral process. The opposition seem not to be aware that Museveni is moving ahead of their plans. Now that Museveni has successfully completed the militarisation and personalisation of the Police force, the army will not feature prominently in the 2016 elections. Imagine the former O.C (Officer Commanding) of Nansana Police Station AIP Mohammed Kirumira is currently undergoing a military course at the army's NCO (non commissioned officer)'s academy at Gadafi Barracks in Jinja!!!

Some ofTHE UNITS of the army's SFG under the command of his son have been fused with the Police force thus giving the scheme to intimidate, harass and suppress the opposition the necessary smoke screen. Currently the Police force strength stands at about 40,000 and itsMANAGEMENTaims at boosting it to 65,000 by the 2016 elections. Already about 4000 constable recruits are nearing completion of their basic training while theEXERCISE of recruiting another 3000 constables and 500 cadets is underway. The auxiliary forces in form of youth party cadres dubbed as Crime Preventers are already on the ground in their tens of thousands.     

All this marathon recruitment is part of the wider scheme to strengthen the Police force as an enforcement organ of Museveni's ruling party's political manouvres targeting the 2016 elections. Above all, Museveni is more bothered by the opposition's push for electoral reforms than the 2016 elections itself. He anticipates the masses to resort to massACTION as a counter measure against a repeat of his his usual rigging.

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POSTED by Uganda - A Change of Guards! a

Viele GruBe

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