{UAH} BATTLE FOR NRM VICE CHAIRPERSON WESTERN UGANDA; WILL A MEDICAL DOCTOR MAKE IT OVER POSITIONED ARMY GENERALS

BATTLE FOR NRM VICE CHAIRPERSON WESTERN UGANDA; WILL A MEDICAL DOCTOR MAKE IT OVER POSITIONED ARMY GENERALS

By Timothy Sibasi-Political Risk Analyst

The new kids on the block to face-off with a retired UPDF maverick General Matayo Kyaligonza who happens also to be Uganda's ambassador to Burundi, are Brig Gen. Shaban Bantariza who's the Deputy Managing Director of Uganda Media Center and Dr. Chris Baryomunsi a junior minister for Planning and Housing, as well as an MP for Kinkizi East.

However, all have a bulky log to shoulder, explain and be assessed by the voter before determinant vote for the docket is announced.

Incumbent Maj Gen. Matiya Kyaligonza has been in a storm of criticism for all the wrongs he has done and the rivals have deemed him unfit to represent the party again in the position of Vice Chairperson NRM Western Uganda.

Gen. Kyaligonza in a storm of assaulting a female traffic officer

On February 24, 2019, Maj Gen. Matayo Kyaligonza was caught in an incident captured on video when he stepped out of his vehicle Reg No 18CDMI heading from Mukono-Kampala when it wrongly made a U-turn in the middle of the road at Seeta junction, and was stopped by a traffic officer Sergeant Esther Namaganda.

This prompted the body guards to Maj Gen. Kyaligonza to jump out and angrily confronted Namaganda including causing bodily harm to her for stopping them from making a U-turn in the middle of the road.

Maj Gen. Kyaligonza's main political rival Dr. Chris Baryomunsi says, "the party no longer needs violent people, as a trained councilor I know how to handle violent and belligerent people I will see how to handle him to stop such behaviours". Said Dr. Baryomunsi

Gen. Kyaligonza defies court summons

On April 29, Maj Gen. Kyaligonza was nowhere to be seen at the Mukono Chief Magistrate's court where he was expected to plead to the charges of assaulting a female traffic officer.

This was the second time Maj Gen. Kyaligonza, who serves as Uganda's ambassador to Burundi failed to turn up at the court. April 10, 2019 was the first time he snubbed court summons alongside his UPDF bodyguards Corporal Peter Busindiche and Private John Okurut from the Mukono Chief Magistrate's court.

His lawyer Caleb Alaka told the Chief Magistrate, Juliet Hatanga that his client couldn't appear due to similar proceedings in the Military Gneral Court Martial. "The general has to be served through diplomatic channels. You undermine a whole general? That is the first thing. Two, you can't have proceedings in the General Court Martial and proceedings here this court. The Supreme Court said that you can't have double proceedings and that is what we raised." Alaka said

Gen. Kyaligonza gross sexual misconduct on Museveni's rally in 2016

In 2016 at the hit of the presidential campaigns, when incumbent president Museveni shifted his campaigns in Western Uganda which Maj Gen. Matayo Kyaligonza presided over as the Vice Chairperson of NRM Western Uganda, Gen. Kyaligonza sexually assaulted a female queen dancer on stage in front of the rolling cameras. The queen dancer  was among the several dancers who had been contracted by Balaam Events to entertain NRM supporters who had turned up for Museveni's rally at the Boma grounds in Mbarara Municipality.

The actions of the army general, who intentionally forced his middle finger in the private parts of the queen dancer, were never put to question because of the political times.

Col. Shaban Bantariza

He is a retired Colonel in the UPDF. At the moment he serves as the deputy managing director of Uganda Media Center and deputy government spokesperson since June 2015.

Career

Bantariza served as the UPDF spokesperson from 2000 to 2002 and from 2003 to 2006. For a period of time, prior to February 2009, Batanzira, at the rank of lieutenant colonel, served as the commander of the Oliver Tambo Leadership School, in Kaweweta, Nakaseke District, in Uganda's Central Region.  On 26 February 2009, he was appointed commandant of the National Leadership Institute (NALI), in Kyankwanzi, Kyankwanzi District. He served in that capacity until he was relieved of his duties on 7 October 2011.

Col. Bantariza in a fraudulent scandal

On 2 July 2013, at the rank of colonel, he was arrested, charged with three counts of fraud that included fraudulent offences, offences relating to documents and conspiracy to defraud

Prosecution alleged that on February 3, 2011 at Akamba Uganda Ltd, Plot 12 Old Port Bell Road in Kampala district, being the director of NALI, he received a tractor with an ITMCO type of registration number UAN 652Z and its accessories donated to NALI by the ministry of Finance.

He instead purported to have purchased the said tractor at Shs67 million. He was arrested on Monday July 1, 2013 from his home in Bweyogerere, Wakiso District.

After proceedings that lasted nearly three years, the Court Martial, chaired by Major General Levi Karuhanga, acquitted Colonel Bantariza due to lack of evidence against him, on 14 April 2015. On 24 June 2015, following his acquittal by the general court martial, he resumed work at the Uganda Media Centre, the president of Uganda having directed in writing that Bantariza resumes work.

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"War is nothing but a  continuation of political intercourse, with a mixture of other means. Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." 

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