{UAH} Kayihura: I Still Believe In Museveni
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Kayihura: I Still Believe In Museveni
Former Police Chief Kayihura Says He Still Has Trust in Army
Detained former police chief Gen Kale Kayihura has said he still believes in three-decade president Yoweri Museveni and the national army.
For over a month now, Kayihura has been detained at Makindye Military Barracks after the operatives from the army picked him from Kashagama in Lyantonde district in June.
According to Jet Tumwebaze, Kayihura's lawyer from Kampala Associated Advocates, Uganda's police chief for 13 years, does not only believe in the revolution that brought the current government in power, but also the president — the man who accused him of killing police from within, the man who accused him of looking on as weevils ate up the force.
"He believes in the revolution and the struggle," Tumwebaze told local media on Thursday.
"He still believes in his commander in chief and the institution of the force."
In the early 1980s, Kayihura cancelled his plans of doing a doctorate to join the National Resistance Army (NRA) rebel group, led by Museveni.
He had finished his master's degree in law at the University of London.
During the bush war, Kayihura served as an aide to Museveni's younger brother Caleb Akandwanaho (Gen Salim Saleh).
Kayihura would later command the mobile brigade.
During his long reign as police head, Kayihura was largely seen as working for Museveni, doing more political work for the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, than he did police work.
He used the police to keep Museveni's fiercest opponent, Dr Kizza Besigye, at bay.
His force contained Besigye's 2011 walk-to-work protests, after an officer pepper sprayed Besigye, Museveni's bush war physician.
In the run up to the 2016 election, two years before he was sacked, Kayihura put together millions of crime preventers, most of them NRM-card holding members — surprisingly, it is this force that Kayihura is reportedly being accused of forming to topple Museveni.
In fact, Kayihura and Museveni publicly praised each other.
Speaking to crime preventers, after Kayihura's sacking, in March 2018, Museveni said the former police chief was "a loyal cadre".
"I want to salute Kale Kayihura because as a loyal cadre, he actively implemented this program [of crime preventers]," said Museveni.
Kayihura was aware of this. Handing over office to his successor Martins Okoth Ochola at Naguru, Kampala, about two weeks earlier, he pledged to remain "a loyal soldier of the Uganda People's Defence Forces and a cadre in the struggle to liberate Uganda".
Kayihura seems to have resolved to keep his loyalty to Museveni and the army, at least according to his lawyer.
"As a disciplined officer, he chose to keep quiet," said Tumwebaze.
Although he castigated the Internal Security Organization (ISO) for fabricating evidence against him, Kayihura still believes in the military, which he insists is full of intelligent cadres, most of whom he has worked with.
He expects such brains to handle his case in honesty.
"Gen Kale Kayihura believes in the military handling of this matter; he believes the people he has been working with are intelligent and can handle this," said Tumwebaze.
It is still unclear what charges the military will slap against Kayihura — Tumwebaze insists his client is yet to record a statement — but it is largely believed they relate to 'crimes' committed during his 13-year tenure at the helm of Uganda Police.
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