Regional
Uganda intensifies RNC recruitment to destabilize Rwanda
Kampala, Uganda - When President Yoweri Museveni was sworn
in for the sixth term on May 12, many political observers in the Great Lakes
Region expected him to turn a new page on relations with his neighbours by
upholding the spirit of peaceful neighbourliness and regional integration.
This optimism was based on the assumption that this could
be his last term as President of Uganda and therefore, he would be happy to
leave a good legacy in the eyes of Ugandans and neighboring countries. In
African culture, when people are aging, they are expected to age gracefully.
But Museveni has proved to be aging differently.
For several years, Museveni has sponsored terror groups to destabilize Rwanda, the
ultimate aim being regime change. Despite the fact that all such attempts
failed miserably, the plot against the government of Rwanda still continues.
Reliable sources indicate that during Museveni’s swearing
in ceremony, the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) terror group was represented by
Frank Ntwali, a brother in-law to RNC leader Kayumba Nyamwasa. Their terror
organisation is blamed for the spate of grenade attacks that killed people in
Rwanda's capital, Kigali, between 2010 and 2013.
After Museveni was sworn in, Ntwali remained in Uganda
where he continued to hold meetings with Ugandan officials and RNC coordinators
in charge of mobilization and recruitment. Prominent among the mobilisers are
the notorious Prossy Bonabaana, her comrade Sula Nuwamanya wa Kabirigi and Lt
Frank Mushaija, all attached to the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI).
Ntwali also held meetings with RNC youth coordinators from different parts of
Uganda.
Reliable sources note that on May 23, Ntwali and Maj.
Robert Higiro met with Museveni’s brother, Gen. Salim Saleh, at his rural home
in Kapeka.
Attending the meeting also was CMI boss, Brig Abel
Kandiho, the overall facilitator of RNC activities in Uganda. A day earlier,
the terror group's coordinator in Kasese District, Sekamana Laban, chaired a
meeting in Nkoko village in Hima Parish, Kichwamba sub-county. In this meeting,
Sekamana urged RNC members to be bold and work together to overthrow the
government of Rwanda. He requested them to establish many branches in the
Rwamwanja refugee camp. The RNC members at the meeting were also advised to buy
membership cards which they can present to security agents whenever it is
necessary.
Ntwali also received 37 Rwandan youth who have been
mobilized by RNC representatives in the Hoima region particularly in the area
of Kakumiro. These youth have been put on standby to go for military training
in an undisclosed location. The RNC mobilizers are busy hunting for more youth
recruits especially from areas of Kibale and Mubende.
On May 25, in the premises of the ADEPR church in
Kyitendere village, Mwitanzige sub-county, in Kakumiro district, Mahirwe, the
RNC youth coordinator in the area called for a meeting to mobilize the youth in
the greater Bunyoro region to be ready to join an armed rebellion.
Again on May 30, at Kyirijjo trading centre in Kakumiro
district, an RNC meeting chaired by one Uwihoreye Mathius also took place aimed
at mobilizing cell leaders to document details of their members so that they
can be issued with identity cards for security purposes.
It is now known that all RNC members are being issued with
identity cards. Rwandan youth in Uganda who will not obtain these IDs risk
being branded as Rwandan spies and dealt with accordingly.
For
the past three years, while appearing in courts in Rwanda, several high profile
terrorists earlier handed over to Rwanda by the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC) military and others extradited to Rwanda from other countries revealed
how Uganda's intelligence agency is actively involved in anti-Rwanda
activities.
Maj. (Rtd) Habib Mudathir of RNC, Callixte Nsabimana of MRCD-FLN, Ignace Nkaka, alias LaForge Fils Bazeye, and Jean-Pierre Nsekanabo, alias Theophile Kamara Abega, of the FDLR, Kabayija Seleman, Nzabonimpa Fidel of RUD-Urunana, and many more testified to Uganda authorities’ involvement in terrorist plots against Rwanda. They all named Uganda’s CMI as a source of funds, weapons, and assistance in terrorist plots, or other plans to destabilize Rwandan security.
The intensified recruitment drive
by people intent on destabilising Rwanda is an indication that Uganda has not
changed its stance on supporting Rwandan terror groups during Museveni’s new
term of presidency.