{UAH} CHEEYE THE GREAT

THE RISE AND FALL OF CHEEYE THE GREAT
Teddy Seezi Cheeye has left a mark. Founding Editor of Tarehe Sita in
January 1987, then Founding Editor of Uganda Confidential in 1990,
Director of Economic Monitoring ISO, etc....
Cheeye had sharping questions in the early years of President
Museveni's press conferences.
In his paper that used to split the atom, to use its own slogan,
Cheeye wrote many controversial stories including how Dr. Besigye
"defiled" a house maid Kyakuwa and Byanyima reported the matter to
police. In 2005, it became political as the case was heard in court
when he was a presidential candidate, and was later acquitted.
He also wrote the same on Brewer Matembe and recently almost fought
with Matembe when he revived the same on NBS's Front line talk show.
At the peak of Kisangani clashes between UPDF and RPA inside DR Congo,
Cheeye was so much anti the late Maj.Gen.James Kaziini who was Chief
of Staff and Overall Commander of UPDF operations in the Congo.
When oil was discovered in Bunyoro sub region, and some Banyarwanda
pastoralists including Cheeye's relatives, who were with his cattle,
relocated to Buliisa from Masindi, and were chased out by the then
Coordinator of security services Gen.David Sejusa in collaboration
with Buliisa MP Mukitare Birahwa, Cheeye was their chief patron and to
an extent President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, who had an interview with
the media and called upon President Museveni not to chase the
Banyarwanda from Buliisa. Later a section of them including their
leader, a lady Babarosa supported by the then Deputy Speaker of
Buganda Lukiiko Dr. Higiro Semajege, distanced themselves from
President Kagame and said that they were Ugandan Banyarwanda but not
Rwandan citizens.
Cheeye, the media general, who survived bullets during RPF liberation
war (1990-1994) where he was a almost a war correspondent, court cases
including that famous one of 'chapati" lady at Black lines, and jail,
died as a no body after being hit by a bodaboda at Nakawa.
KCCA Executive Direcotr Jennifer Mususu Ssemakula, had come out with a
noble program of regulating bodaboda in and around Kampala but was
frustrated by the likes of Gen. Kale Kayihura, the former Kampala
Metropolitan Police Director late Andrew Felix Kaweesi and Boda Boda
2010 Patron, Haji Kitatta, it is high time the programme was
revisited.
Cheeye, with his Uganda Confidential, following Weekly Topic owned by
SAPOBA trio; Bidandi Ssali Kintu Musoke and Kirunda Kivejinja,
developed investigative journalism in Uganda, and will be remembered
for that.
In 1995, however, at an investigative journalism workshop at Lake
Victoria Hotel Entebbe, the former Minister for Finance Dr. Cryspus
Kiyonga challenged Cheeye whether he did not pull out a story after
getting 5,000 US Dollars. Cheeye admitted so saying that by the time
he realized that the story was wanting, the paper had already gone to
bed, and the interested party had to pay that amount, to cover the
cost. That marked the end of his credible investigative career.
RIP.

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