Some NRM Cadres have warned their party chairman president Yoweri Museveni against charging former Inspector General of Police (IGP) General Kale Kayihura with big offences.
A top official in National Resistance Movement (NRM) leadership intimated to this website that the president met NRM secretary General Kasule Lumumba and other top officials before he addressed parliament on Wednesday. Museveni informed Lumumba and others that he was not going to mention Kayihura’s matter in parliament even though the MPs insisted.
He said that the president was also advised that if he okays the serious charges against Kayihura, other junior officers will fear to implement his orders referring to what happened to Kayihura since he always defended him as a good cadre in public and Kale always bragged that he was helping the president in most of his actions.
However, Ahmed Katerega Musaazi, a prominent NRM cadre who also works at the NRM secretariat, while speaking on ‘Gasimbagane ne bannamawulire’, a radio talk show on radio Simba, said, “Mr. president, many people lost their dear ones under unclear circumstances, now we have got some of the criminals, if you want to let them go because of their status, we are not going to allow such impunity, let Kale come to court with his officers and answer their charges, you will pardon them after.”
Musaazi pinned Kayihura for being in the know of whatever his boys were doing but he kept quiet because of his personal political interest.
Musaazi was supported by Aisha Kabanda the former Kampala Resident District Commissioner (RDC) who said that the president must leave the law to take its course: “if Kale has charges, let him answer, don’t just pardon him like it has been allegedly said.” Kabanda added that in Kale’s tenure as the IGP, many Ugandans were killed especially Muslims while others were imprisoned on staged managed charges.
Joseph Tamale Mirundi, another NRM cadre, who fought with a hammer to make sure that Article 102(b) of the constitution is amended told the Grapevine that president Museveni can’t just allow Kale to be charged with those capital offences of murder and treason as alleged. Mirundi said that it’s the reason why human right organizations are seriously fighting for Kale’s rights.
“Have you seen my brother Medi Kaggwa fighting for Kittatta or other police officers? This is a very interesting matter, yes Kayihura might be charged but not those charges you are telling me,” Mirundi said. Security sources have told the Grapevine that Kale is expected in court next week.
UGANDA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION FIGHTING FOR KAYIHURA’S FREEDOM
The Uganda Human Rights Commission came out yesterday with a statement saying that they are in negotiations with UPDF officials to charge Kale or release him because he has been detained for over 48 hours which is against the constitution.
Aida Nakiganda, the assistant chairperson of the Uganda Human Rights Commission told the Grapevine that after the negotiations, the commission will come out with a statement on Kale. “The chairman will address you at the appointed time, be patient but what you must know is that we are negotiating with the top army leadership,” Nakiganda said.
