Museveni meets NRM politicians at Kakyeeka stadium
Speaking in Runyankole, President Museveni revealed that he has agents in the opposition who get him information but he himself has to deploy them.
“Now, when I see NRM people there in the opposition without my instructions, I wonder who has sent them or what has taken them there,” Museveni said as he addressed a meeting of NRM politicians at Kakyeeka stadium in Mbarara.
The meeting was called to calm tampers within the NRM ranks following last week’s chaotic NRM parliamentary primary elections.
The meeting mainly focused on the violence that characterized the elections in Isingiro district where at least three people died.
The police identified the dead as Wilber Nkabadiho, a resident of Katuragye village in Katuragye sub-county, Musa Bright, a resident of Rugaga trading centre and Gordon Muhumuza, a resident of Karo A in Kabuyanda town council.
All candidates from the Mbarara sub-region districts that participated in the primaries attended the Kakyeeka meeting.
The President was forced to reveal his moles in the opposition after a security report tagged the violence in the NRM polls to some opposition activists.
According to president’s informers, among the opposition activists that were involved in the NRM primaries is a one Brian Ampeire aka Unstoppable that President Museveni linked to a group led by Kampala deputy Lord Mayor, Doreen Nyanjura “that is known for causing chaos in Kampala.”
Ampeire, President Museveni said, got involved in the Isingiro fracas as an agent of Dr. Ponsiano Mugyenyi who competed against Brig. Bright Rwamirama, the state minister for Animal Husbandry, for the NRM flag in Isingiro County.
“The informers saw Ampeire here… What would the opposition be doing here in an NRM process? You make contacts with the opposition? As who? Are you involved with them as a spy or…” the president wondered.
“Unstoppable (Ampeire), Mugyenyi’s agent, is among those who took a dead pig to Parliament,” he added.
President Museveni also accused the outgoing Isingiro district chairman, Jeremiah Kamurari, of being among the NRM politicians who took opposition activists to the district.
Kamurari lost the Bukanga North NRM flag to Nathan Byanyima. This was after Bukanga was gerrymandered to save Stephen Kangwagye, a close relative to the first family, who has never said anything in the parliament.
According to the president, “Kamurari has a person he works with called Benjamin Kato Mukiibi, who comes from Rwangabo…he (Benjamin) is a member of Kyagulanyi’s NUP (National Unity Platform), People’s Power…” the president said.
The president went on to accuse Kamurari of having spread the foot and mouth disease in Isingiro district affecting cattle trade in the area.
“He is the one who brought Foot and Mouth disease to Isingiro… I was going to imprison him for messing up the economy by bringing the disease from Tanzania… Kamurari is always doing things that have no meaning,” President Museveni alleged.
Due to wide spread violence, primaries in two constituencies – Mawogola West and Mawogola North were called-off as the NRM chairman bought time to find a solution to the bad blood between the president’s brother, Godfrey Aine Kaguta, and daughter-in-law, Shartsi Musherure Kutesa.
Aine and Musherure are competing in Mawogola North, currently represented by Foreign Affairs minister, Sam Kahamba Kutesa who fronted his daughter; Musherure to replace him.
In Mawogola West, MPs Joseph Ssekabiito is fighting with Anifa Bangirana Kawooya.
In the meetings President Museveni said that it is important for those seeking leadership positions in the NRM to appreciate NRM ideology.
“People are fighting hard to go to Parliament because MPs unilaterally increased their salaries. They earn more than our scientists and other critical professionals,” he said.