{UAH} ABUDALLAH KITATA – THE FLY THAT FOLLOWED THE CORPSE INTO THE GRAVE

Change of Guards

May 25, 2018

ABUDALLAH KITATA – THE FLY THAT FOLLOWED THE CORPSE INTO THE GRAVE

.When Museveni first appeared on the political scene with the Tanzanian army that ousted Iddi Amin in 1979, he strategically followed the Western axis. That way, he was able to bolster his briefcase FRONASA with Westerners and in particular Banyankole and Tutsi refugees.
When he took to the bush in 1981 to fight the UPC government, he chose Buganda region as the base for his Bush War. He wanted to exploit the old Baganda hatred for Obote and his UPC for the events of 1966. He also wanted to undermine the predominantly Baganda rebel fighting groups of UFM and UFF of Andrew Kayiira and Prof. Lule which had already established bases in the strategic Buganda.

First he tricked Prof. Lule into merging his UFF with Museveni's NRA to give rise to the NRM/A. He went ahead to make Prof. Lule the Chairman of NRM while Museveni became his Vice Chairman but also headed the strategic armed wing, the NRA. That is why Museveni was predominantly referred to as the Chairman of the NRA High Command and not the Vice Chairman of NRM. The High Command became the Supreme Organ of the Bush War and in that, way Prof. Lule was tactfully overshadowed. Many Baganda peasants and fighters rallied behind the NRA in an honest belief that their own, Prof. Lule was to become the leader of Uganda.

It is prominent Baganda like Male and Habib Kagimu who introduced Museveni to Libya's Gadaffi for military aid. He also used the likes of Dr. Samson Kiseka, Sam Njuba, Bakulu Mpagi, and others on his NRA's External Wing just to win moral support of Baganda in the diaspora. In particular he targeted the Buganda monarchy community that was in exile abroad.

His next huddle in neutralizing the Baganda was how to deal with a predominantly Buganda fighting group under Dr. Kayiira, the UFM. A series of meetings between Kayiira and Museveni did not yield anything. Within the UFM circles it was strongly believed that the NRA was directly spying on the UFM and indirectly supplying such intelligence to the government. The betrayal was plainly exhibited during one of the incidents when the NRA agreed to join the UFM in a joint attack on the government army positions in the city but at the last minute the NRA never showed up. Instead, it ambushed the retreating UFM and seized a big cache of arms that had been captured from the attack on Lubiri barracks. The UFM was weakened by the sustained attacks by government troops , capture of its top commanders and it eventually disintegrated.

Next Museveni moved against the Kakooza Mutale group, Vumbula which had set up bases in areas of Zirobwe and it was compelled to surrender to the NRA. Since then Kakooza Mutale has undergone a series of 'use and discard' coupled by humiliation. Deep in Galilaya, Kayunga, the armed group under David Matovu refused to join hands with Museveni's NRA. When Museveni took over power and David Matovu eventually joined him, he became a jail bird over repeated treasonous allegations.
Museveni's scheming against Baganda influence suffered a temporary setback when the prediminantly Baganda DP backed the coup against Obote in 1985 and joined hands with the Okello junta. The former UFM fighters and its splinter group, FEDEMO had also reorganized and joined hands with the Okello Junta. Within the NRA, Baganda fighters grumbled that they were being used to do the donkey work for Museveni's Banyankole. Museveni moved very first to neutralize the ugly situation by inviting Prince Mutebi to visit the Liberated Zone in western Uganda. The Prince was smuggled through Rwanda from UK and he was manipulated into calming the situation.

A few months before capturing power, Prof. Lule died in the UK and Museveni took over as Chairman with a toothless Muganda, Moses Kigongo as his Vice Chairman. When Museveni took over power in 1986 he formed a government that was dominated by the predominantly Baganda DPs. Dr. Samson Kiseka became his Vice President. He moved to neutralize the UFM and FEDEMO fighters who had now joined the NRA. UFM's Kayiira and a couple of prominent Baganda politicians and army officers were arrested over treasonous allegations while some other UFM officers fled the country. Just a day after the High Court exonerated and released them, Dr. Kayiira was shot dead leading to further purge of Baganda in both government and the army.

Museveni reinstated Buganda Kingdom just in name in order to hoodwink the Baganda. In the mid 1990s when he felt that he had consolidated his hold on power and to some extent he had neutralized the influence of Baganda, he got rid of the DP and the Baganda in government. Already he had successfully dealt them a heavy blow within the security forces. Fearing that some Ugandans would resort to armed rebellion following the 2001 rigged elections, Museveni initiated a campaign of violence dubbed Operation Wembley under Brig. Elly Kayanja. The operation committed heinous crimes against humanity especially in Buganda. Since then Brig. Kayanja has been held hostage or else he would lose protection against criminal proceedings for those crimes.

Around the same time the army underwent privatisation by sending Gen. Katumba Wamala to police in order to give way to the rogue Gen. Kaziini and junior Gen. Aronda to rise to the office of Army Chief. It was after the army was privatized that Gen. Katumba Wamala was appointed to head the toothless residue of the army after creation of SFC as an autonomous entity. Gen. Kalekyezi headed for the police to carry out the same privatisation.
Following the Arab Spring in North Africa, Museveni feared that the opposition in Uganda would replicate the same, more especially in the strategic central region and Kampala city in particular. That is when he used Gen. Kalekyezi to create rogue youth groups in Kampala under Abudallah Kitata. With full backing of and blessing by the regime, Kitata's ruthless gangs carried out a campaign of violence against the general population and the opposition in general. Imagine at one time Museveni invited Kitata to deliver a lecture to a cabinet retreat. The alleged arms and other military equipment were given to him by the regime.

It was not until the Hima/Tutsi power struggle involving Gen. Kalekyezi and the Rwanda connection, that Museveni moved against Kitata. His crocodile tears before the military court can't help him. He ought to have heeded to advice by not following the corpse into the grave. Despite his low education level, Kitata ought to have known what befell prominent Baganda Bush War politicians and fighters like Kiseka, Njuba, Bakulu Mpagi, Omulangira Mawuuba, Gyagenda Kibirango, Mukwaya, Zizinga, Kagwa, Mutebi, Ssebatta, Musisi Karampenge, Mawanda, Kawuma, Sseguya, Kawuma, Dragon, Kigundu, Sserwanga Lwanga, Sula Ssemakula, and several others. What about Col. Fred Bogere and Brig. Waswa Balikalege!!!

They were often generalized as; "Abaganda nabashuma (Baganda are thieves) but history has now exonerated them and Ugandans now know who the real Bashuma are. It is only a few Bipepewo (Butterflies) insignificant Baganda officers like Katumba Wamala, Kasirye Gwanga, Nalweyiso, Kakooza Mutale and a dozen other sellouts that pick crumbs from under Museveni's table that are being exhibited.

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