I am out of prison - Pulkol
By David Kibirige
Dec 14, 2003
| KAMPALA - The former director general of the External Security Organisation (ESO) Mr David Pulkol says he is a happy man.
"I am a very happy man. It is like I am out of prison. I am now a free man who can say and do whatever I want but in the confines of the law," a jovial Pulkol told Sunday Monitor on Friday moments after handing over to his successor Lt. Angalefo Maku-Iga. Pulkol was dropped on Thursday and transferred back to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs awaiting deployment. "You know the problem is some people want to control what you talk, but I am happy I am out of this situation. I'm now a free man like you. I am no longer a prisoner, where I am surrounded by guns of escorts," he said. Pulkol said that he swore the oath of secrecy and so he will never reveal information, which he has been privy to by the nature of his former work. He said he was going to take a retreat as he ponders the future. Pulkol landed into trouble recently when at a public dialogue, organised by the Parliamentary Advocacy Forum (PAFO), he said it was okay for people to talk against the proposal to lift term limits on the presidency. He also castigated the police for being excessive in dispersing peaceful seminars and rallies by the opposition, which drew the ire of police chief Maj. Gen. Katumba Wamala. Later the minister of Internal Affairs, Dr Ruhakana Rugunda condemned Pulkol, hinting that disciplinary action against him was a foot. |
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