{UAH} MUSEVENI'S GEN. MUHOOZI HAD NEVER RELINGUISHED COMMAND OF HIS SFC

MUSEVENI'S GEN. MUHOOZI HAD NEVER RELINGUISHED COMMAND OF HIS SFC

 

By CHANGE OF GUARDS

Uganda's military dictator has once duped Ugandans by pretending to redeploy his son Gen. Muhoozi to take command of his elite tribal Special Forces Command (SFC). The SFC was created purposely to be commanded by Gen. Muhoozi as a parallel force that not only guarantees Museveni's stay in power but to ensure that his son inherits the presidency from him.

In January 2017 Museveni duped Ugandans by pretending to move him from command of the SFC to the positions of Senior Presidential Advisor on Special Operations. The move was prompted by the November 2016 bloody massacre of hundreds of Innocent people in Kasese in an operation that was coordinated by his son as Commander of the SFC. The then army chief, Gen. Katumba distanced himself from having issued orders for the said attack and it has never been clear as to who issued the said orders. However, to shield his son, Museveni pretended to have relieved him from command of the SFC but in actual sense he remained In charge of the same and actually the entire security infrastructure.

The recent massacre of 54 people in Kampala was without doubt the work of the Special Operations Desk under his son. With resultant local and international pressure whereby the USA is considering sanctioning of senior security managers, Museveni is once again moving to shield those implicated. His impending exoneration by the ICC from the November 2016 Kasese massacre and more so the uncertain security situation in the country, Museveni has found it convenient to get his his son from hiding. An analysis of the Gen. Tumukunde factor in these reshuffles will be for another day.

Here-below, we reproduce this website's article that analysed the January 2017 so-called reshuffle:

Wednesday, 11 January 2017

MUSEVENI'S SON TAKES CHARGE OF THE UGANDA ARMY

https://changeofguards.blogspot.com/2017/01/musevenis-son-takes-charge-of-uganda.html

For the last one decade, Uganda's military dictator, Museveni has been propping his son to take over command of his army. This is part of a wider scheme to have his son as the heir to the presidency of Uganda. His irregular recruitment into the army, his preferential exposure to specialised training and deployment, and command of the elite Presidential Guard unit, the SFC was all aimed at achieving the same. The issue has been and continues to be a hot topic of discussion in

Uganda and the whole world. With most of the vital strategic units of the army under the control of the elite SFC, there is no doubt that Gen. Muhoozi was the army chief. His strategic role and overall powers came to light recently when the commandos under his command killed more than 100 people in cold blood in Kasese. The then figurehead army chief, Gen. Katumba Wamala distanced himself from the issuing of orders for the murderous Kasese operation. It became clear that the orders had been issued by Museveni through his son onward to the ground commanders. The opposition leader, Dr. Besigye made a statement exonerating Gen. Katumba Wamala - ".... we know who killed people in Kasese. Its not Katumba Wamala". This development together with Gen. Katumba's recent tendency of being seen getting closer to the ordinary soldier infuriated Museveni. He has had to sack Gen. Katumba and Katumba's deputy Gen. Angina.

He elevated his son to the newly created position of Special Presidential Advisor in-charge of Operations. This position puts his son at the helm of army operations. During the 1980s there was the powerful office of the Chief of Combat Operation (CC0) under Museveni's brother, Gen. Saleh. Then headquartered at the current offices of the Joint Clinical Research Center (JCRC) opposite the main gate of Lubiri barracks, this office was in charge of all operations in the army's field operations while the Army Commander was only concerned with administrative duties. From CCO, Gen. Saleh took over as the Army Commander. There is no doubt, Gen. Muhoozi is the new version of the old CCO.

In business terms, operations is the agency of an organisation charged with carrying on the principal planning and operational functions of a headquarters and its subordinate units. In the military context, operation refers to military action, mission or manoeuvre including its planning and execution. A military operation is the coordinated military actions a state or non-state actor, in response to a developing situation.

These actions are designed as a military plan to resolve the situation in the state's favour Operations may be of combat or non combat nature. Military operational plans also called war plans are produced in accordance with the military doctrine of a particular army. Military operations coordinate highest level senior army officers who shape strategy and revise it over time and the line officers who make tactical decisions on the ground in support of the laid out strategy.

Therefore, Gen. Muhoozi has been given the extra responsibility of presiding over all security/military and civil operations and reporting directly to his father who is the Commander-in-Chief. All these top commanders will comfortably report to him who will in turn report to Museveni. With the total elimination of bush war and past regime top commanders from the top-most positions of the army, his son now enjoys total loyalty. Gen. Kayihura is on his way out of the police as Gen. Katumba Wamala takes up the role of Aide de Camp (ADC) to UNRA's Allen Kagina. Given, the humiliation they have endured in their command positions, both Gen. Katumba and his Deputy, Gen. Angina must be feeling a lot of relief.

Museveni can't risk distancing his son from the army more especially at this time when the future is uncertain. In March 2015 he made a public statement thus: "....... when God gave me a son Long before I thought of being President, I called him Muhoozi. He will avenge me." With the current position, Museveni will closely mentor his son on the Presidency and afford him sufficient diplomatic exposure through various assignments outside the country.

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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