[Yoweri Museveni]

On the 19 the February 2016, the party leaders of the Forum for democratic change, Uganda (FDC) Presidential candidate; Dr. Col. Kizza Besigye, FDC Party Chairman; Mr. Waswa Birigwa, Party President; Major General Mugisha Muntu, Mobilization Secretary, Ingrid Turinawe and unarmed civilians, were arrested by armed Military Police and Uganda Police who were arrested and detained.

These arrests were heavy handed, unnecessary and unfounded under any laws of Uganda. The illegal and unlawful arrests were made a day after, the presidential and parliamentary elections of the 18th day of February 2016.

Uganda Diaspora, friends and Development partners join to strongly condemn the cowardly acts of arresting opposition party leaders, intimidation of the opposition voters, use of force and violence against innocent civilians.

The Uganda Diaspora P10 an international communication arm of the FDC Party has noted that the recent arrests of opposition leaders on 19.02.2016, are part of a coordinated intimidation of party leaders by the dictatorial regime in Uganda.

These malpractices have undermined the whole credibility of the electoral process, i.e. the campaigns through to the polling, tallying and, in addition, the arrest of Presidential Candidate Dr. Col. Kiiza Besigye, at Naguru on the 18th February 2016, who was acting on a tip-off to expose an election rigging centre.

Notwithstanding the heavy handedness of the Dictatorial regime in Kampala, the people of Uganda defiantly came out in large numbers to exercise their constitutional right to vote for a president of their choice. Provisional results project that presidential candidate Dr. Kizza, Besigye holds a significant.

The Electoral Commission lack of independence has compromised the whole electoral process. The lack of independence of the electoral commission was evidenced by the false allegations by the Chairman Electoral Commission, that presidential Candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye intended to declare himself president of the Country without substantiation.

Uganda Diaspora P10 have evidence of criminal activities ranging from elections crimes to crimes against the people of Uganda
The underhanded activities and election irregularities which have disenfranchised the Ugandan voter include but not limited to;
Voting materials not delivered on time, in some place delivered as late as 3 pm.

Widespread ballot staffing in areas of Kampala, Wakiso and nationwide.
Heavy military presence and illegal militia deployment.

The Uganda police involvement in partisan law enforcement and brutality.
The Uganda police conducting tallying in Gulu District, Naguru among other areas.
Failure of the biometric identification machines nationwide.

The Uganda Diaspora P10 questions the competence of the Electoral commission in managing an election of this magnitude to acceptable, democratic international standards.
To underscore the gravity of the current state of affairs in the country, Ugandans and friends of Uganda are going to the street to protest the outcome of the unfair electoral process.

However, in Uganda, the people’s right to freedom to assemble, demonstrate, associate and express themselves have been curtailed.

The Ugandan people, will not be stopped by intimidation, they will do anything and everything to ensure that the power of the people through the ballot is protected and prevails. As citizens, we will use all fora; domestic and international to protect the people’s fundamental rights of electing a leader of their choice.

We appeal to the police and all organs of state to desist from arbitrary, partisan and undemocratic acts against the peoples of Uganda. To this end, we encourage the police and all organs of the state not to interfere with the will of the people of Uganda but protect and respect the will of the people.

The acts of violence, brutality, and arbitrary arrests seem to be a well-planned coordinated act of terror against the people of Uganda. We are documenting the identity of these individual perpetrators responsible for this criminal acts. We will ensure that they face personal and institutional liability under the domestic, regional and international law.

Let the response of our nation be mature and thoughtful. This is a moment of prayer and unity not of hasty reaction. We ask God to give us wisdom in the face of a volatile situation.

The violent, cruel and humiliating method of arresting our leaders ought to be condemned by the International community because it’s not only a violation of human rights but its meant to cause fear and voter apathy in favor of the incumbent.

We welcome the statement of concern by the American Secretary of State, John Kerry; Head of the Common Wealth Election Monitoring Team, Olusegun Obasanjo; and condemnation by the local observers of election irregularities.

We are also concerned about the safety and security of all foreign citizens in Uganda. The Uganda Diaspora P10 and Forum for Democratic Change appeal to the European Union to join the rest of the international community and our allies in voicing their strong concern against electoral irregularities and human violations in Uganda.

Demand:
We appeal to the European union to put pressure on Yoweri Museveni and the regime to release with immediate effects all opposition leaders and innocent civilians detained without due process.
We ask the immediate halting of counting, tallying and announcing of election results tainted with irregularities.

In conclusion, the current political stalemate in Uganda is so volatile and is threatening to generate into civil strife, human rights abuse and eventual collapse of the state like many other countries in the region.

The patience of the people of Uganda stretched to the limit, the people of Uganda are running out of option and seek the international community to intervene immediately before the situation escalates.

Chairperson Uganda diaspora P10
MS JACKIE OLOYA.

[Yoweri Museveni]

Chief of Defense Forces, Gen Edward Katumba Wamala has refuted claims that he is under arrest and detained at Makindye Military police barracks.

Gen Wamala says he has heard about information that is circulating on social media that he is under incarceration after he demanded that the Electoral Commission releases the correct results to avert a possible unrest. He says the information is not true and that Ugandans should treat it that way.

Much as the source and intention of information is yet to be established, Gen Wamala thinks the idea is to drive a wedge in the UPDF that is now involved in streets operations to ensure peace just after yesterday’s presidential and parliamentary elections.

The elections were marred by massive irregularities, delayed delivery of election materials. In fact the opposition walked out of the Electoral Commission tally centre at Namboole, saying they can’t be party to a ‘sham’ election results.

“There has been a lot of efforts to cause anxiety in the populace. There have been machinations from some of those people who are bent to cause chaos in this country…one of them I can tell you for example, there was a plan to have a ‘photoshop’ [manipulated photo] where the army personnel were dragging the Kabaka [Buganda kingdom king] on the streets which photographs  they were printing and were going to throw in the public.

You can imagine what that would cause…[the rumour] is one of them again coming out to say Gen Katumba is under arrest. I don’t know how many telephone [calls] I have received in that message started circulating from all corners of the country and from all forms of people”, Wamala said.

Even though government instructed Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block access to social media accounts such as facebook, twitter, WhatsApp among others at least until after the ‘security situation is assessed’, Ugandans circumvented the blockage – accessing the sites via virtual private networks (VPNs) which masks the user’s location. Reports indicate that an unprecedented 1.4 million VPNs were downloaded and installed by users in Uganda by the end of yesterday alone.

There is noted increased army presence on the streets of Kampala and there has been spontaneous protests – though quickly quelled in Najjanankumbi, Natete and Kisekka over the provisional election results being released by the Electoral Commission. According to the latest results from 13,305 of the 28,010 registered polling stations, Museveni is in the lead at 62.82% having received 2,900,109 votes so far.

Kizza Besigye is second with 1,507,495 votes (32.66%), Amama Mbabazi – 80,893 votes (1.75%), Venansius Baryamureeba Baryamureeba – 31,331 votes (0.68%), Maureen Kyalya – 23,076 votes (0.5%), Benon Biraaro 14,469 votes (0.31%) and Mabirizi with – 13,660  votes (0.3%). So far, the tallied votes stand at 4,606,403 while the invalid are 243,695 representing 5.01% of total tallied (4,860,098) which is 31.8% of registered voters.

The elections have been marred by gross irregularities. For example, tallying of election results in Sembaule had to be suspended in the morning when ‘results’ from Kirama, Ntusi primary school, Kazooba A, Lwemibu and Kinoni were presented for tallying even though voting at those polling stations had been suspended and did not take place yesterday.

In Bulambuli district, results from six polling stations – Bundikibolo, Suni, Luzzi primary school, Wandabiriri primary, Sisiyi and Tunyi health center III went missing. The returning officer said today morning that the results declaration forms had been stolen from the polling officials by unknown people last night.

Likewise in Bundibugyo, results declaration forms and the presiding officers of Busaru, Mirambi and Buragyetema polling stations could not be traced at the time of tallying the results today morning.

With ‘questionable’ results trickling into the EC tally centre and the recent political rhetoric especially from opposition candidates warning against vote rigging, security has been beefed up. Gen Wamala the army presence with heavy weaponry on the streets of Kampala and other parts of the country is not in any way to scare or intimidate Ugandans but rather to offer peace and security and backup the police.

We know and we have known all along that there are plans to destabilise this country using the elections as the spark. Some people have said that they will not accept the results and we know that behind that there were plans to make this country difficult to govern.

Acts like riots and as I speak now I now that some people bought tickets and actually left the country, people feared that immediately after the elections there is going to be violence which was going to be very costly in terms of life and property. We knew all that and so that is why we have come out as UPDF to buttress the police to ensure that we provide total security”, Wamala said during an interview with URN at the army office in Kampala.

He says the army on the streets will not make arrests but will work with the Police to provide general security to ensure that nobody’s security is disturbed. Wamala says the security situation in the country after the elections is generally peaceful and that the army wants to ensure the situation does not degenerate after the announcement of the results – where the incumbent Museveni is likely to be declared winner.

‘REIN IN SECURITY’

The army’s presence and heavy fighting machinery and seemingly no-sense approach towards protestors has not gone well with the international community. US secretary of state, John Kerry called on President Museveni to ‘reign in security’

According to a statement from the US Department of State, Kerry reminded President Museveni that “Uganda’s progress depends on adherence to democratic principles in the ongoing election process and that the United States stands by the Ugandan people as they undertake this most essential democratic endeavor”

The statement further adds that Kerry “expressed his concern about the detention of opposition candidate Kizza Besigye and harassment of opposition party members during voting and tallying, and he urged Museveni to rein in the police and security forces, noting that such action calls into question Uganda’s commitment to a transparent and credible election process free from intimidation”.

Kerry also urged Museveni “end this [social media] blockage immediately”

By 8.30pm today, Besigye was still detained at Nagalama police cells after he, with other party officials; Joyce Ssebugwawo, Ingrid Turinawe, Wasswa Birigwa and Gen Mugisha Muntu were arrested from the party offices during a police raid this afternoon. Police accused FDC of inciting the population by compiling and attempting to release their purported results that indicated that they Besigye was leading.

[Yoweri Museveni]

There was some drama and tension in equal measure when Gen Katumba Wamala, the chief of defense forces (CDF), clashed with a voter at Mbuya Church of Uganda primary school polling station.

The two quarreled over the presence of soldiers at the polling station.

It all started when Gen Wamala walked to the polling station to appraise the voting situation only to be confronted by a voter, who identified herself as Anne. She complained about the heavy presence of army men at the station.

She insisted that the army should streamline the manner in which soldiers are brought to a polling station without intimidating other voters in the line. In response, Gen Wamala angrily said there is no law barring soldiers from voting at anytime. This drew a bitter exchange between the two.

Wamala later told journalists that soldiers have a constitutional right to vote and any attempts to deny them that right can’t be tolerated. He also defended the presence of soldiers in many other parts of the country. He said they were deployed to back up police in the event of violence or chaos.

Elections within Mbuya barracks and its neighboring precincts have in the past been a bone of contention, with civilians accusing the army of rigging. However, Wamala dismissed this.

[Yoweri Museveni]

Distribution of polling materials and start of voting in Local council elections in parts of Wakiso district was delayed by crime preventers who demanded for upfront payment of their allowances before executing their work.

Crime preventers are a volunteer force of civilians recruited and managed by police to report on and prevent crime in cooperation with the police and communities.

Although, the legitimacy of the force is questionable owing to their affiliation to the ruling National Resistance Movement party, they form part of the group contracted to escort voting materials as well as guard the polling stations.

They are paid Shs 20,000 in allowances for each polling day. Earlier today, four trucks loaded with voting materials could not leave Katabi Sub-county headquarters in Busiro South, Wakiso district after dozens of crime preventers refused to board before getting their allowances.

Polling officials and Police officers who were already aboard the trucks and other vehicles, waited for over an hour as the crime preventers, in unison, swarmed the Electoral Commission Sub-county supervisor, Ben Mutebi, to pay them.

Mutebi said the norm is that the allowances are paid after the election period.

“They get allowances, Shs 10,000 everyday for elections. That is Shs 60,000 for 3 hours of elections and we are telling them in Wakiso we pay after all elections have taken place”, Mutebi said.

After failing to get what they wanted, some of them wanted just some money to enable them go through the day. One of them was heard pleading for just Shs 500 before he could get on board.

“Afande, at least Shs 500 for water”, he begged.

It was getting to 8am when the crestfallen crime preventers agreed to leave. They reluctantly boarded the trucks and went to perform the duty of protecting the polls.

As a result, voting in the Sub-county started after 9am, two hours after the official opening time of 7am.

The Wakiso district chairman race is between three candidates  Mathias Lwanga Bwanika of the Democratic Party, Kyeyune Umar of the Forum for Democratic Change and Nsubuga John of the National Resistance Movement party.

[Yoweri Museveni]

Earlier this week, Uganda’s inspector general of police, Kale Kayihura, was reported to have made three very serious statements.

First, that ‘they’ will not hand over power to an opposition that is up to no good other than undo the precious peace ‘they’ fought so hard to give to Ugandans. In this, Kayihura was restating his master’s stance.

Second, that the militia he has been training and passing out around the country will be handed rifles in place of sticks so they defend the peace of the country.

Third, that this militia – otherwise deceptively called ‘crime preventers’, an absurd concept that suggests a wall can be erected to prevent crime – has reached a staggering eleven million. Not even the great Red Army comes anywhere close.

If we had an accountable government, Gen Kayihura would promptly be relieved of his duties for uttering statements that are inflammatory, subversive, and grossly unbecoming of a public official, more so the head of a civilian institution charged with maintaining law and order.

The act of handing over power and deciding who has won or lost an election is hardly the business of the police, let alone a serving military officer.

But we are talking about Uganda here, where impunity reigns and misconduct is rewarded. I don’t know of any government anywhere in the world, with the remotest pretence to democratic governance, that has the head of police who is shamelessly partisan and an unabashed ruling party cadre.

Our current chief of defence forces, General Edward Katumba Wamala, is probably as loyal to his commander in chief and to the country as you can find. Yet he is unlikely to publicly spew such reckless statements.

The thing about General Kayihura is that he belongs to a coterie that is so sloshed with power and believes it has the ‘divine’ right to misrule us.

The import of the three statements noted above is to create fear and despondency, and ultimately procure a very low voter turnout on February 18. The calculation is straightforward.

Majority of those who would elect to stay away from the polling booth would likely vote against the incumbent. They will stay away, convinced that their vote won’t count.

But even more importantly, a good fraction of those who will not turn out to vote will be voted for, using the rigging machinery, part of which may involve the militia passing as ‘crime preventers’.

That’s the plot. It is the scheme which Kayihura’s scarecrow statements aimed to achieve. Aware of this nefarious scheme, the reaction of Ugandans hankering for change is to call a bluff on the threats and fearmongering.

For starters, the claim that Kayihura has trained eleven million ‘crime preventers’ should be treated as a big lie or at best a gross exaggeration intended to impress his master and create an alarming picture to Ugandans.

Uganda’s population is estimated at close to 35 million people. Given we are predominantly a young population with a very high birth rate, more than half of Ugandans are underage – below 18 years. But what Kayihura is telling us is that one out of every three Ugandans is a ‘crime preventer’!

The figure of fourteen million registered voters, which is contested, gives us another way around seeing the hollowness of there being eleven million ‘crime preventers’.

If we got an unlikely 80 per cent voter turnout, it will mean that practically every Ugandan appearing at the polling booth will be a ‘crime preventer’! It will be a vote by ‘crime preventers’.

One fact needs little belabouring: Kayihura has wrought enormous institutional damage on the Uganda police in his overzealous service of his master. The vast majority of police officers reside in the most appalling housing conditions, earn a paltry salary, and operate without the most basic facilities expected of a modern civilian, professional police force.

Yet huge budgetary resources, at the discretion of an activist and partisan IGP, are channelled towards fighting opponents of the sitting president and funding political mobilization for him.

This was impeccably revealed in the infamous tape recordings in 2014 when the IGP was on the loose cajoling and paying individuals not to support the then prime minister, now presidential candidate Amama Mbabazi.

But statements of desperation have recently come from others high up, including the man himself who is desperately clinging onto power. But very disappointing are statements attributed to the prime minister, Livingstone Ruhakana Rugundu, a man better known as Ndugu.

Apparently, Rugunda and his group will not hand over power if the opposition rigs the February 18 vote! This suggests that Rugunda believes the opposition is likely to commit electoral fraud.

His boss has said as much. But with an ‘independent’ Electoral Commission, padded with regime followers, and eleven million ‘crime preventers’ to boot, why should Ndugu Rugunda have any inkling that the opposition will rig the polls?

I should like to end by noting that I intended to write a letter to Dr Kizza Besigye, especially in the wake of the incident in Butambala district involving area MP Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi. Something was simply not right. That letter will appear here soon…

[Yoweri Museveni]

Several organisations have called for the removal of crime preventers from the 2016 elections process, largely because they cannot be trusted to act in a fair and non-partisan manner.

Besides the political opposition, the latest call came last week from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Network Uganda, Chapter Four Uganda, and the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative.

While community policing has been helpful in many countries, in our context, the use of crime preventers in elections is problematic.

We strongly urge the government to rethink, if only to protect the credibility of the 2016 elections.

Dr Ruhakana Rugunda is obviously well-respected across the partisan divide, but his government’s position is like saying that a World Cup-qualifying match between Ghana and Nigeria should be officiated by a Nigerian referee, while insisting that the referee must not make biased calls against Ghanaians.

Uganda’s recently-recruited, hastily- trained and politically-sensitised crime preventers cannot escape the suspicion that they will act in favour of the ruling party, the National Resistance Movement.

Only recently, President Museveni said that although crime preventers were not to be paid salaries, they would be rewarded for their work by being considered for government programmes such as Operation Wealth Creation.

Many crime preventers have been seen dressed in colours of the ruling party. Clearly, the link between crime preventers and the NRM is overtly and covertly significant.

Indeed, as The Observer reported in October, many see the crime preventers as an NRM strategy to mobilise hundreds of thousands of often-jobless or clearly underemployed people and create a symbiotic relationship between them and the ruling party.

How then can such people be part of the team ‘officiating’ in the competition that is the 2016 elections?

Not many people have faith that the crime preventers are there to genuinely prevent crime and that they will not be partisan.

One organization classified crime preventers alongside vote-guarding militia being mooted by various political groups. That may look like it is stretching it, but that is what it seems.

And fairness of the electoral process cannot be simply a declaration. It must also be seen to be.

[Yoweri Museveni]

Not surprising! NRM, NRA and all offspring wherever they are is about robberies.

Take the case of the 27 heroes (41) of Feb 6 1981; their successful mission was robbery. Even on the way to Kabamba, according to sowing the mustard seed, they robbed a lorry and a Peugeot car.

Robbery of food items was the order of the day during the Luweero fight 1981-1986.

And what have they not robbed or stolen once they acquired state power in Uganda?Anyone remember the ICJ case about plunder of DRC resources? The debt remains unpaid by Uganda but the robbers roam free on Ugandan roads.

One of the looming threats by NRM is that if FDC wins the presidency then there will be a lot of robberies especially of marhandise belonging to business people. This is calculated to force business to prefer ‘no change’ to protect their properties. The same trick was used in 2011.

[Yoweri Museveni]

Police and the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) are investigating whether some top police officials and soldiers were engaged in the recent spate of robberies and murders in and around Kampala.

Most of the officers under investigation, The Observer has learnt, were implicated by low-ranking soldiers and policemen arrested during operations in December and January.

Speaking to The Observer during the parading of suspects at police headquarters Naguru on Wednesday, Fred Enanga, the police spokesman, said if investigations establish a link between the senior army and police officers to the robberies, “the accused officers will be arrested and prosecuted because no one is above the law.”

“When murders and robberies escalated in Kampala and other areas, security made joint operations to have the culprits arrested…,” said a high-ranking security officer.

He said the crackdown was carried out by teams from the police, Internal Security Organisation (ISO), Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI), and Special Forces Command (SFC).

In interviews, security officials who declined to be named said during the joint operations, most of the arrested suspects were police and army officers.

“We have so far arrested 10 suspects but four are police officers and three army officers and only three are civilians but who have knowledge of guns,” one detective attached to CMI said.

“When these suspects were seriously interrogated, they revealed to us that they have been working on orders from top security bosses who they mentioned,” another source from the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) at Kireka said.

“These [implicated] officers are of high ranks and if we mention their names, they can interfere with our investigations and eventually kill the whole file,” the source said.

In interviews at Naguru on Wednesday, some of the suspects paraded at the police headquarters confirmed working on orders from high-ranking officers who they declined to reveal.

“I was lured into this business by my boss who has a high rank in police and I was handing all the money to him and he was paying me only 20 per cent of the collected money,” Corporal Tito Lutwa said.

He said his boss even gave him an extra gun and 60 rounds of ammunition. Lutwa, however, said that his boss warned him that in case he is arrested, he should never tell on him.

“I gave you the weapons but in case you are arrested in the act, you will carry your own cross,” Lutwa quoted his boss as saying.

He said by the time he was arrested, he had been involved in robberies for close to six months.

“I have earned money close to Shs 80m and have constructed a house, bought four plots of land, one special hire [vehicle] and three motorcycles,” he said, adding that he made over Shs 300m for his boss.

In an interview on the same day at Naguru, Enanga said: “It is true that since November last year robberies and murders in Kampala have increased and people have lost their lives and properties.”

He said the secret joint operations have yielded good information about the robberies and lots of properties have been recovered. He said 10 suspects had been arrested, including  four policemen; Corporal Lutwa Tito, PC Ochom Isaac, PC Ojok Michael and PC Ahimbisibwe Bernard alias Pastor.

Others are Alibun Ismail, Hajji Umar, Okabo Lowela, Mulongo, Tumukunde Geoffrey, Abusa Manisoor and Basiri Paluku, among others. Enanga said they have recovered an AK47 gun with 1,100 rounds of ammunition, phones, military shoes, TV screens and cutting materials, among others.The police is also investigating whether the robberies and murders are politically motivated to instill fear and panic among people. He said the suspects face charges of murder and aggravated robbery.

CITED ROBBERIES

Enanga said armed gangsters dressed in military uniform on November 15 at around 11pm in Kawempe robbed six people including a pharmacy, mobile money shop and over Shs 3m.He said on January 3, the same gang killed Stephen Kasirye before taking his motorcycle. On January 4 the gang also robbed Mugisha Umar, a businessman in Kawempe, of Shs 10m.

Enanga also said the gang shot and killed Darius Tukwase, a boda boda rider in Kazo, on the same night after he refused to surrender his motorcycle. And on February 4, the same gang robbed one Tumuhimbise of Shs 24m and two phones in Bukoto.

[Yoweri Museveni]

A UPDF captain, a major and a lieutenant have been arrested by police on suspicion of masterminding robberies in Kampala and its suburbs, The Observer has learnt.

The detainees include an army captain attached to the phone-tracking unit at the Mbuya-based Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI); a one Major Mushabe, who was found with two illegal guns at his home in Mbarara; and a one Lt Karanzi.

The captain, according to security sources, was arrested two weeks ago by officers from the Police Flying Squad, acting on tip-offs from suspects arrested earlier. The arrests are some of the results of a month-long operation to tame robberies and murders in Kampala.

“During the operations, over 14 UPDF and police officers were arrested and seriously interrogated to reveal how they were stealing from the public,” a security source said.

During interrogation, the suspects said they gave the captain telephone numbers of rich people in Kampala. According to the suspects, the army captain used the official army tracking system to monitor the rich people and later pinned down their actual location at any given time.

“[The captain] would give us the location of the rich people and we would follow them,” a source quoted one of the suspects as having told his interrogators.

The source further told The Observer that after the captain was implicated, the CMI boss, Brig Charles Bakahumura, ordered his arrest. The captain is currently detained at Kampala’s Central police station (CPS), with sources saying he could appear before the General Court Martial.

Contacted for a comment yesterday, the Flying Squad boss, Maj Herbert Muhangi, confirmed the arrest of the captain.

“We received intelligence information from our sources that [the captain] would get numbers of rich people in the city and later track their movements and location,” Muhangi said. “He [the captain] is with us now and he is under serious investigations.”

Muhangi also said that so far the captain has revealed 14 police and army officers who have also been arrested.

“We have arrested them and they are also under investigations,” he said.

POLICE SHOOTS 3

Meanwhile, Flying Squad operatives on Tuesday evening shot dead three thugs believed to have killed policemen and stolen their guns.

The dead have been identified as Fred Mugisha, John Kabuye Mpoza and Moses Kayiga. The three were shot dead in Ndejje, Wakiso district, as they plotted to rob a businessman. According to Muhangi, police received information and trailed the thugs from Kampala to Ndejje.

He said the robbers were shot trying to enter the gate of the businessman.

“When we ordered them to stop, they fired bullets to scare us and in return we shot them dead,” he said.

He said police recovered two guns and a pistol with several rounds of ammunition. Muhangi said one of the recovered guns belonged to police. It was the gun gabbed from the guard of former deputy chief justice Seth Manyindo.

He said police highly suspects that the dead robbers could have killed the police officer who was guarding the home of presidential advisor Chris Rwakasisi.

[Yoweri Museveni]

Uganda bad government of yoweri museveni

[Yoweri Museveni]

A woman cannot be scared by 10 impotent men

TAMALE MIRUNDI

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