[Ugnet] Comnspiring against THE GOD FATHER...haa?

[Matek Opoko]

Conspiring against the "God Father"!!!!Haa =========================================================== Col. Kayanja in trouble over links with Bukenya

EMMANUEL N. MUGARURA & ALEX B. ATUHAIRE

KAMPALA When the Forces (Army) Council meets this Sunday in Bombo to discuss discipline in the military, one officer who will come under intense fire is Col. Elly Kayanja. Sources say that Kayanja, the head of the Internal Security Organisation, will have to answer for his alleged close connections with Vice President Gilbert Bukenya. Sunday Monitor has learnt that President Museveni was supposed to meet Kayanja on Wednesday ahead of the council meeting but later ordered Lt. Gen. Salim Saleh to meet the colonel instead. A reliable source said that Kayanja and Saleh spoke on phone on Friday evening and were scheduled to meet yesterday (Saturday). TO ANSWER: col. Kayanja LINKED TO OFFICERS: VP Bukenya �Afande [Saleh] told Kayanja that the army was not comfortable with the relationship [between the colonel and the VP] and wanted an explanation as to why they meet without notifying the President and the army commander,� said a source who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter. Kayanja�s actions are said to have attracted particular attention when he gave added security protection to Bukenya hours after he was named vice president in May 2003. The army authorities regarded the move as interference with security deployments, complete with ethnic undertones, sources said. Kayanja reportedly told Saleh that the deployment of a security detail for Bukenya was as a result of advice from an intelligence officer that the security of the newly appointed vice president could be in jeopardy if it was not reinforced immediately. Kayanja, at the time in charge of the central region, acted because the new VP was in his area for which the President had specially asked him to check the deteriorating security situation. Kayanja reportedly wrote a report about the deployment to Museveni. Met officer in Mbale Bukenya told the Daily Monitor two weeks ago that his opponents reported him to the President over alleged clandestine meetings with Baganda army officers. Sources say the army leadership believes it is Kayanja who sets up the meetings between the officers and Bukenya. Saleh reportedly told the colonel, who is on leave from ISO and is attending an officers course in Jinja, of an incident in Mbale early this year where the VP allegedly met a senior Muganda officer, an act for which Bukenya got a summons from the President to explain himself. Kayanja, whom we could not reach by phone for comment because it was switched off, is expected to give a personal explanation to the Forces Council regarding his meetings with Bukenya. The Bombo meeting, for which no agenda has been circulated in advance as is usually the case, will be chaired by Gen. Museveni and is expected to deal with the leaking of army secrets to the media, a possible replacement for Brig. Henry Tumukunde as army MP, and _expression_ of political views by serving officers, among other issues. Tumukunde, who is held at the Officers Mess in Kololo for talking politics in the media, was reportedly forced to resign as an army MP at the time of his arrest on May 28. Mugira tipped for MP While admitting that Tumukunde�s conduct would be �discussed in reference to all serving officers�, army spokesman Shaban Bantariza said that the council would not elect his replacement at the meeting. �The Electoral Commission is not ready. There is not enough time to do that by Sunday,� he said. �I can bet my job. We are not going to elect anybody on Sunday.� The Electoral Commission, however, has already written to the Army Council notifying it to make arrangements to fill up the vacant seat. �We received notice of a vacant seat from the Clerk to Parliament,� said EC publicist Okello Jabwelli. �Preliminary arrangements have started to elect a replacement.� Sources say Lt. Col. James Mugira, the head of military intelligence, is tipped to take up Tumukunde�s job in Parliament. Mugira is one of three senior officers who arrested Tumukunde from his house on Impala Avenue in Kololo. The election, however, is coming up against an impending legal challenge by Tumukunde�s lawyers who say he was forced to resign. The lawyers hope to file a petition in the Constitutional Court on Monday for an injunction against Tumukunde�s resignation and subsequent election of a replacement. The Army Council is made up of directors, heads of departments and commanding officers.

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