{UAH} COL. KULAYIGYE'S GOLD SCANDAL IS JUST A TIP OF THE ICEBERG

In late June 2016, a one Murungi who is a sister and business associate of Col. Felix Kulayigye was allegedly defrauded in a seven kg gold deal.  Col. Kulaigye is the Army chief political ideologist and one of the ten army members of parliament.  It alleged that together with a Congolese gold dealer, Murungi approached Metrich Holdings Ltd to have the seven Kgs of gold tested for purity.  The said amount were found to have been pure before the two customers left the said offices.  It is reported that later the  said gold turned into pavers yet the Congolese sellers had already vanished.

Murungi ran to his brother and business partner Col Felix Kulaigye who is turn contacted his cousin the IGP Gen. Kayihura who despatched the brutal police and CMI operatives who raided the Matritch offices, arrested the employees, stripped then naked, ransacked the office in broad daylight before they were arrested a d detained at different police stations in and around Kampala.  A one Ggingo is alleged to have been a go between  in the deal is alleged to have been kidnapped, tortured and detained in the notorious torture chambers where he was forced to sign agreements under duress surrendering his land titles.  As the late police continued to hold the suspects beyond the constitutional 48 hours,,  the court issued an order for their release.  As has become the norm, the police simply ignored this court order.  Because the MD of Metritch Holdings Ltd is a son of an Army Brigadier from western Uganda, it took the intervention of Gen. Tumukunde the Minister of Security to have them released.

The army is claiming to be investigating the involvement of Col. Kulayigye but as usual nothing positive will come out of this inquiry. Moreover, in the early 2000s Col. Kulayije as a Battalion Commander was suspended on allegations of creating ghost soldiers through inflation of the number of soldiers under his command while he took away their pay. However, the saga has now taken a different twisty- pitting the Bahima represented by Gen. Tumukunde against the Banyarwanda represented by IGP Gen. Kayihura. This incident is just a tip of the iceberg because anyone who has a relative or friend in the top leadership of the security forces just uses them to solve any dispute that could have ordinarily been handled by courts of law.  Some security officers are just available for hire to collect bad debts, intimidate one party in land and business wrangles like was the recent incident involving Brig. Kyamukesire. Security officers provide security and protection for hire in trafficking of drugs and ivory among other contrabands.

In the late 1960s, the Hon. Saudi Ochieng tabled a motion seeking an inquiry into the Congo gold scandal that involved Col Idi Amin.  Unfortunately the present parliament lack a Saudi Ochieng to table a motion on the Col. Kulaigye gold scandal.  In the 1960s Parliament of Uganda had men who were morally upright unlike in present one that is dominated by Museveni's wolves and Marabu Storks.  However, for Museveni questioning such illegalities would amount to economic sabotage and undermining his security forces who are the custodians of his life presidency scheme.

INFORMATION IS POWER AND DEFIANCE ISTHE WAY TO GO

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