Museveni plot against Uhuru exposed

On Monday, August 2, Kenya’s media broke the story about how Deputy President William Ruto was blocked from leaving the country and flying to Uganda via the Wilson Airport, in Nairobi.

The DP was scheduled to travel on a private jet with a delegation of seven people - politicians and businessmen allied to him.  Ruto and his delegation are reported to have arrived at the airport a few minutes after 1pm, and waited until 5pm before the trip was cancelled.

It is believed that Ruto had an appointment with Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, on issues to do with the succession of President Uhuru Kenyatta. It is public knowledge that President Uhuru and his Deputy have fallen apart and no-longer read from the same script in the ruling Jubilee party.  

Following Ruto’s aborted trip to Uganda, Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party MPs led by Suna East MP Junet Mohammed, called a press conference on Wednesday, August 4, and condemned Uganda's ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) for meddling in the internal political arrangement of Kenya.

The leadership of ODM hit out at Museveni over his relationship with Ruto and has challenged the latter to explain his relationship with Uganda's ruling party and Museveni. Speaking at Parliament buildings ODM Chairman, John Mbadi, asked Museveni to respect Kenya and avoid pushing his political ideologies on his neighbours.

Ruto's relationship with Museveni aimed at creating chaos

The NRM record is not worth borrowing from on human rights, democracy, good governance, freedom of the press, civil society, fighting corruption, or lifting people from poverty, MP Junet Mohammed said. "From where Ruto is getting political advice, it can be revealed that he would not relinquish power, he is not fit for power. We want Ruto to come clear on his relationship with NRM of Uganda," the Suna East MP said. "Ruto wants to ride to power by taking advantage of those in desperation hence pushing them to deeper misery... Ruto's relationship with Museveni is aimed at creating chaos in the event he is defeated in 2022."

Political analysts wonder why Museveni would be interested in inviting Kenya's Deputy President at a time when he is well aware that there are political differences between the two Kenyan leaders.  Those who know Museveni’s political intrigues say this has been his way of political maneuvers to undermine leaders in the region for his personal ambitions. In stopping Ruto from travelling to Uganda, highly placed sources say, the Kenyan authorities may have realized the secret political machinations between Museveni and Ruto ahead of the 2022 presidential elections in Kenya.

Had the meeting happened, it would have been Ruto’s second meeting with Museveni in two months. In July,   Museveni invited Ruto as his chief guest during the official laying of the foundation stone for a vaccine manufacturing facility. The event took place in Matugga, Wakiso District, where a multi-billion pharmaceutical drugs and vaccine manufacturing facility will be set up.

Although Museveni’s actions betray the aspirations of the East African Community and regional integration, he has for long been scheming for an East African Federation, not for the gain it can offer the people in the region, but for his personal ego. Museveni craves to be the one heading the Federation.  During the laying of the foundation stone for the vaccine manufacturing facility, Ruto hinted at supporting Museveni to establish and assume leadership of the East African Federation.

“You owe us a debt. Before you retire and if possible in the next two or three years, you owe us the fruition of the East African federation,” Ruto said at the function. Besides the unveiling of the vaccine plant, Ruto had a private meeting with Museveni in the company of Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi.

The Kapsabet MP who was with Ruto on the earlier Uganda trip, is said to have continued to Uganda with two others when their boss was recently blocked from travel.  Museveni has been scheming to have regional leaders he can manipulate to back him for his personal ambition to head the East African Federation.  Political analysts opine that Museveni initiated a secret agreement with Ruto to support him in his 2022 presidential ambition in return for Ruto’s support to Museveni’s long ambition of being the first leader of the East African Federation.

However, Musevini’s meddling in Kenya’s politics undermines Uhuru as the sitting President, and his entire government. In the region, Museveni has for long plotted for regime change in Rwanda. He supported terror groups to attack and remove President Paul Kagame, but failed. The reason being that Kagame does not support Museveni’s egocentric regional ambitions. That’s how Museveni came up with the project to support Kayumba Nyamwasa who heads a terror group, the Rwanda National Congress (RNC), to fight against the legitimate government of Rwanda. Museveni’s wish is to have Kayumba as President in Rwanda who will support his East African Federation dream.  

The death of Sudanese Vice President John Garang in 2005, who died en-route to southern Sudan from Uganda, following a meeting with Museveni, raised more questions than answers on the role of Museveni.  Veteran journalist Andrew Mwenda who was an employee of K-FM at the time, was arrested and charged with sedition while the radio station was closed for airing views that suggested Uganda had a hand in the death of Garang. 

Mwenda said on his show (Andrew Mwenda live) that Museveni and his government were "incompetent", adding that this had resulted in the death of Garang. He said the Ugandan government had put Garang on "a junk helicopter... at night... in poor weather... over an insecure area." Lately, however, Mwenda has 'seen the light' and often leads the praise choir for Museveni.

In October 2011, Sudan’s vice-president Ali Osman Mohamed Taha accused Museveni of seeking to change the regime in Khartoum as part of his broader agenda to halt Arab advances in Africa. Taha disclosed to the media that the Ugandan leader publicly declared his intentions at an event held in New York in 2010 when he spoke about a movement by the marginalized regions in Sudan to change the center of power in Khartoum on the pretexts of neglect and inequality in development.  

Museveni’s hand in regional destabilization for his personal ambitions has been on the horizon for long. This time, it is climaxing on plotting for regime change in Kenya. But will he manage?