{UAH} MUSEVENI'S 'TECHNICAL' SPY CHIEF, BRIG. BOSSA IS NO MORE - RIP

MUSEVENI'S 'TECHNICAL' SPY CHIEF, BRIG. BOSSA IS NO MORE - RIP

By CHANGE OF GUARDS

Museveni's Brig. Michael Bossa died last week. The regime claimed he had died of COVID-19 but he was a known asthmatic. The Born-Again, humble original Muganda was Makerere University graduate of Telecommunications Engineering. He joined the army after the NRA had captured power in 1986. Like many others who were shy to directly enlist in the military service, but were conditioned to undergo the political indoctrination sessions in order to access jobs, Brig. Bossa was among the first intake of the NRM Political School at Namugongo in 1986. Under the leadership of Museveni's notorious Maj. Kakoza Mutale, the school that had been set up deep in the forest was mistaken for a rebel camp and attacked by another NRA unit. Several were killed while others were injured but the matter was, as usual, swept under the carpet with no one being held to account for the uncalled for ugly incident. 

Engineer Michael Bossa was deployed to the President's Office from where he ended up being compelled to become a soldier under the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) headquarters at Basiima House. That kind of indirect recruitment into the army was one if the ways of entrapping intellectuals and the professionals into military service. Many others ended in the army in a similar way; Brig. Felix Kulaigye was a MchakaMchaka trainee at Kyankwanzi long after the NRA had captured power but he now claims to know the NRA more than Brig. Kanyankole did. 

Eng. Bossa received went for a short intelligence training course in Russia before he pioneered being the de facto head of the Technical Department at DMI. At the time, the Technical department was only preoccupied with tapping of landline telephone lines, secret recordings of targets and other simple technical undertakings. In some instances, his expertise would be utilized in procurement of communication equipment for the army. Being a Telecommunications Engineer, Bossa was the sole brain in this endeavor. At the rank of Sgt, he worked under Col. Byemaro Mijumbi and for a very short period under Paul Kagame (current President of Rwanda) who held the position of Assistant Director, Technical. When Col. Byemaro became the DMI and Paulo Kagame headed for a course in the USA, Sgt. Bossa assumed the position of Assistant Director, Technical. At the time, he was the only Non Commissioned Officer (NCO) to hold the position of Assistant Director under DMI. 

Around the early 1990s, Sgt. Bossa was automatically commissioned to the rank of Lieutenant and continued to head the Technical Department at DMI. He married a one Jovanice who had since 1986 been the only civilian Secretary at DMI. She is a sister to the former Bukanga M.P, Nathan Byanyima. With the diplomatic fallout with Rwanda of the early 2000s, all those who had served under DMI when it was dominated by Rwandans were subjected to scrutiny. Bossa and his wife Jovanice were removed from DMI and sent languishing at the army headquarters in Bombo. With CMI assuming more of the civil intelligence role coupled by rapid information technology advancements, Engineer Bossa resumed his position at CMI. He must have been the brain behind CMI's rigorous technical surveillance scheme. In the same regard, in June 2016 he was moved from CMI and taken to the army headquarters as Chief of Communications and Information Technology. (CCIT).

     Bossa was the brain behind Museveni's grand surveillance scheme which was unearthed in October 2015.  In a report released by the BBC, it was alleged that the regime had acquired sophisticated high-tech spy gadgets worth Shillings 300 billion from Europe. The same report further revealed that Museveni's CMI was the only agency in the procurement and utilisation of the said gadgets under an operation codenamed "Fungua Macho" (Kiswahili for 'open eyes').  Using intrusive malware to infect the electronic communication devices, the scheme targeted top opposition activists, the media and other dissenting voices.

RIP

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Rehema
Patriot in Kampala,East Africa:Assalamu Alaikum

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