{UAH} CHARLES RWOMUSHANA - THE 'FORMER SH SPY', FORMER ISO OPERATIVE ETC

CHARLES RWOMUSHANA - THE 'FORMER SH SPY', FORMER ISO OPERATIVE ETC

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CHANGE OF GUARDS - Charles Rwomushana holds several titles in Uganda's political circles; former Guild President, former CA Delegate, former RDC, former Head of Economic and Research at ISO, former Head of Political Intelligence under ISO, former State House Spy, former Head of Political Department in President's Office, former Head of Political Intelligence at State House,  former Intelligence Operative, a celebrated Political and Security Analyst etc.

He was the 1992/1993 Guild President for Makerere University. After graduation, he became a Constituent Assembly (CA) delegate for Rujumbura county during the 1995 constitution making process but he lost the Rujumbura County M.P contest in 1996. Rwomushana excelled in open radio talk-shows popularly known as Ebimeeza. However, in 2000, he was expelled from Nelson Ocheger's Action for Restoration of Democracy political platform. In Rwomushana's own  confession, he closely worked with Gen. Tumukunde and David Pulkol in violent rigging for Museveni's 2001 elections. As a reward, Rwomushana was appointed RDC for Pader District in January 2001 (NOTE from Editor, could have been Pulkol, not Rwomushana).

In November 2011, Charles was relieved of the RDC office and allegedly unclearly assigned as Head of the Political Intelligence Desk in the President's Office (Rwomushana or Pulkol). Among other tasks, Charles is said to have formulated and written the notorious Operation Wembley concept. In a May 27, 2003 letter by the Internal Security Organisation's (ISO) Deputy Head of Human Resources sacked Rwomushana citing his conduct prejudicial to the organisation (ISO).  However, Charles claimed to have resigned following a three years standoff with State House Permanent Secretary and the Director General Internal Security Organization (DG/ISO) over his emoluments. He further claimed that he had resigned owing to pressure from the Amama Mbabazi clique that allegedly was against his (Charles) performance. In October 2004, he sued the government seeking payment of salary arrears for the period he had served in the President's Office. He argued that while he served as RDC in Pader, he was earning 1.7 million as monthly salary but when he was redeployed to the President's Office he was paid only 800,000 as a monthly salary on top of scrapping his other entitlements. He therefore sought an order for payment of his salary arrears totalling shillings 210 million.

In September 2005, the High Court ruled in his favour and ordered the Attorney General to pay the claimed shillings 210 million including the unpaid salary arrears since 2001, transport allowance, and cost of the suit. The government did not appeal but simply refused to respect the court order.

In December 2005, Charles sought for a High Court order compelling the DG/ISO to pay his shillings 210 million salary arrears on top of an explanation from the Attorney General and Secretary to the Treasury as to why he had not been paid. It is not clear as to how the matter was resolved but since then, Rwomushana has never formally served the Museveni regime. Instead, Rwomushana has excelled as a celebrated analyst on security and political issues at different radio and television talk-shows where moderators identify his using the different titles above. In 2016, he supported Amama Mbabazi's presidential bid in the general elections. However, being a good researcher, he has mastered a few theories of spy-craft and security dynamics of the Museveni regime for which in the eyes of ordinary Ugandans, he is a 'security expert."

Save for the External Security Organisation b(ESO), Museveni's intelligence outfits are linked to only Museveni's army and police. ISO and ESO were established by the Security Organisations Act Cap 305 of 1987. Section 6 of the Act stipulates that the Officers and employees of those outfits were to be appointed by the President on advice of the respective Director Generals. Section 11 stipulates imprisonment of not more than ten years for any officer who behaves  in a manner prejudicial to the Organization's reputation but does not talk about dismissal.

ISO evolved from the NRA Bush War intelligence outfit that was dubbed Civil Intelligence Organization (CIO). Upon coming to power, CIO was briefly referred to as President's Office before enactment of the Act. Its staff undergo compulsory military training and are allotted army service numbers. They undergo specialised training in military and intelligence at its training schools that were initially located at Gudda before relocating to Makajjo in Ssekanyonyi and the Institute of Intelligence and Security Studies. Disciplinary action against employees is usually handled by the military courts and military prison and in most cases dismissal is by way of referring the affected staff to the army headquarters for redeployment anywhere else.

Charles Rwomushana has never been a soldier and it has never been clear as to whether he carried out his intelligence/spying assignments under ISO, President's Office or State House as his different titles indicate. However, his dismissal letter, having been originated by the Human Resource department of ISO is most intriguing. It is most likely that after using, abusing and misusing Rwomushana's Services under unclear terms and conditions, Museveni got stuck and directed ISO to write Rwomushana a letter of dismissal. Now that Rwomushana has come out to vie for the Presidency of Uganda, he has the burden of telling Ugandans as to which exact intelligence organisation he served under. He can best prove this by attaching his appointment letter to his May 27, 2003 letter of dismissal by ISO.

In a related development, recently, State House Comptroller dismissed claims by the three Artists who were appointed by Museveni as his Presidential Advisors, as being employees of State House.  However, in public, they carry the title of Presidential Advisors.

INFORMATION IS POWER AND THE PROBLEM OF UGANDA IS MUSEVENISM

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Rehema
Patriot in Kampala,East Africa:Assalamu Alaikum

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