{UAH} Andrew Mwenda: Kayihura Hated For Being A Munyarwanda

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Andrew Mwenda: Kayihura Hated For Being A Munyarwanda

Andrew Mwenda: Kayihura's Loyalty to Museveni was Always Questioned Because He was a Munyarwanda

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By Editorial On Jun 23, 2018

Former Police Chief Gen Kale Kayihura. Courtesy Photo

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Controversial journalist and commentator Andrew Mujuni Mwenda has said former police chief Gen Kale Kayihura's loyalty to three-decade president Yoweri Museveni has always been questioned because the embattled ex-IGP is an ethnic Munyarwanda.

Mwenda makes this claim in his 1,520-word long article titled Kayihura's road to jail: How the former IGP became a victim of his own success, internal power struggles and changing geopolitics. 

Mwenda uses 333 words of this article to explain how Kayihura's ethnicity made his loyalty suspicious.

Here we publish this part of Mwenda's article:

Andrew Mwenda.

Kayihura is an ethnic Munyarwanda. In the struggle for favour inside Museveni's security apparatus, his ethnicity always made him vulnerable to accusations of disloyalty. He once told me that whenever Uganda and Rwanda quarrel, he becomes a victim: Kampala accuses him of being a mole, Kigali of being a traitor. His only line of defence was Museveni, a factor that made him fanatically loyal to the president.

Thus whenever Kigali needed something from Kampala that had to be handled by him, Kayihura was always alert to ensure he does not act in a manner that can be misunderstood. For example, there were Rwandan dissidents who had escaped to Uganda and were under detention by police. Some were genocidaires, others military officers. Kigali wanted them repatriated. Kayihura resisted, to the chagrin of many in Kigali who found him uncooperative. It is ironic that he is now being accused of doing what he consistently refused to do – help Rwanda get its dissidents.

Observing him over the years, I realised that his identity as an ethnic Munyarwanda weighed heavily on him. He seemed to be under constant pressure to prove his loyalty to Uganda, something that pained me. In fact of all the people inside Museveni's inner circle I have dealt with, Kayihura was the one most willing to die for the president. I always felt this was reward for the trust Museveni had shown in him in spite of all the ethnic backbiting and mudslinging he suffered inside the system.

Thus, for as long as Museveni protected him, Kayihura breathed easily. The president was his first and last line of defence. That is how vulnerable I felt he was. Kayihura's nightmare scenario was Museveni withdrawing this protection. Such an act would leave him exposed to the wolves inside the system and they were anxious to devour him with relish. When it finally happened, Kayihura must have been devastated.

Therefore, whatever his misdeeds (which were many) it his ethnicity not his actions, that became his undoing.

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