President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni attends the Clinton Global Initiative on September 26, 2013 in New York. PHOTO | AFP
In Summary
Gen Sejusa had in June told the BBC that he would use all available means to unseat President Museveni’s government
Kampala. President Yoweri
Museveni has challenged renegade General David Sejusa to go ahead and
try to use force to overthrow the NRM government, but quickly warned
that such action would be in vain. “If he wants to use force, let him
come. He knows my address…We have been waiting for him for a few months
now,” President Museveni sounded the invite during a press conference at
State House, Nakasero, yesterday evening
The president, who gestured with raised hands and
narrowed his face into contorted frowns as he addressed the issue,
warned the General that he would face the full force of the law upon any
eventual return. “Sejusa is already a deserter,” said the president.
“He has already made a lot of mistakes and he will be handled according
to the law."
In an interview with the BBC in June, Gen Sejusa
said he would use all available means to unseat President Museveni’s
government, which he termed as “a life presidency transiting into a
political monarchy”. Mr Museveni, however, moved to allay concern that
Gen Sejusa had caused his government any discomfort.
Sejusa a non-issue
“We are not really concentrating on Tinyefuza now;
he is not our priority,” said the president, who insisted Gen Sejusa
had broken the law by deserting the army. Days after Gen Sejusa, the
coordinator of intelligence agencies, had left the country in April,
details of a letter he had written to one of the spy chiefs emerged,
alleging that top officials opposed to the “Muhoozi Project” were marked
for elimination.
The government denied the existence of the project
reportedly meant to aid First Son Muhoozi Kainerugaba take over from
his father. In an interview with Al-Jazeera TV this week, President
Museveni said his son, who is a serving military officer, was not
interested in politics—at least in the short term. Gen Sejusa,
meanwhile, remains holed up in London in self-imposed exile.
At yesterday’s media briefing, the president also
defended the increased funding for his donations captured in the State
House budget, despite cries by teachers to have their salaries raised.
SOURCE: THE CITIZEN
SOURCE: THE CITIZEN
