Prime
Gen Museveni, please stop ‘pigs’ from destroying Uganda
Author: Nkwazi Mhango
What you need to know:
- Mr Nkwanzi Mhango says: Whatever or whoever the “pigs” are needs more rationalisation.
People identified by the President as pigs and don’t value life recently launched an assassination attempt on Gen Katumba Wamala, the former Chief of the Defence Forces and outgoing Works and Transport minister.
In this attack, his daughter Brenda Nantongo and driver Haruna Kayondo were killed on the spot. Such criminality can’t go unpunished. Whoever is/are behind this heinous act is not a small creature(s) and the criminals assigned to do such a dirty jobs are not “pigs” as they’re referred to by Gen Museveni.
For a country that prides itself of great intelligence to behave that way suggests that there could be more to this than meets the eye.
There are some cursors to this assumption. First, as Daily Monitor of June 3 reported, the investigation into the matter will be overseen by Gen Museveni who advanced the theory of pigs.
Does it mean that the boss doesn’t trust his organs responsible for combating or investigating such criminality?
Why form a bunch of such top brass while such killings aren’t new in Uganda? Do the members of this eminent group have what it takes to get to the bottom of the problem?
Those who remember what happened to former Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP) Andrew Felix Kaweesi, among other top security officials, still recall how his death happened and Ugandans soon moved on.
Kaweesi was killed on March 17, 2017, together with his bodyguard and driver. Despite being one of the top police officers, his death didn’t warrant such response from the ‘bigwigs’, at least going by their public pronouncements.
Another prominent killing was that of former army commander, Maj Gen James Kazini. The difference here is that Kazini was killed in his girlfriend’s house in Namuwongo, a Kampala suburb.
Until now, however, many still marvel at how the General could have been killed by his girlfriend.
What Museveni’s “pigs” seem to be doing can be likened to what used to happen under former president Idi Amin’s regime in the 1970s where the likes of Lt Col Michael Ondoga, then Amin’s brother-in-law and minister for Foreign Affairs, was abducted in broad daylight and later his bullet-riddled body was found.
Is this a coincidence, or is there something that needs to help us connect the dots in as far as this mysterious attack by “pigs” on top security personnel is concerned?
In summary, whatever or whoever the “pigs” are needs more rationalisation. The questions revolving about the whole thing are provocative and need to be correctly and quickly answered in order to avoid what happened to the security bosses.
Those behind these attacks mustn’t be given what they want to use to destabilise Uganda through creating fear.
Gen Museveni must do more than just call Gen Katumba’s attackers “pigs”. Where are they and why are they doing so?
When everything is considered, Gen Museveni must please stop these “pigs” from destroying Uganda.
Mhango is a lifetime member of the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador
