War against ADF: Uganda should carry own cross, stop blame games

It is common knowledge that whenever Uganda finds itself in its own mess, the authorities in Kampala blame Rwanda.

The Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence's mouth piece, commandonepost.com, is at it again with fake news that, “Kagame deploys Special forces units in Eastern DRC to support ADF terrorists.”

 The bizarre fake article cannot not pass the lowest test of creative writing, as everything claimed in the article is nothing but shallow fiction.

To the contrary, the Allied Democratic Front (ADF) leader Jamil Mukulu who was arrested in Tanzania and extradited to Uganda in 2015 on charges of terrorism, publicly told Ugandans that it is Museveni’s government which gave them logistics.  

ADF leader Jamil Mukulu telling public at High Court how Museveni sponsored them.

In an article published in the nilepost.co.ug, on May 28, 2018, Kenneth Kazibwe said that as the ADF suspects returned to court; Mukulu disembarked from the prison bus and shouted loudly accusing the government of double standards. 

“This government of Uganda sponsors ADF but if it is a terror organization, why do they support them with military logistics and finance,” Mukulu shouted.

The PML Daily also ran a story on the same day titled, “Govt funding ADF Activities- rebel leader Mukulu.”

George Okello reported that Mukulu accused the government of funding the rebel group’s activities. He shouted as he stepped out of the bus.  

“The government of Uganda sponsors ADF and if it’s a terror organization, why sponsor them with military logistics and finances every month. That is a fact. Isn’t that double standards?”

Mukulu also denied the charges of murder against him and instead pointed a finger at mafias in government.  

“I’m not a murderer, the people who killed are in this country. This country is full of mafias,” Mukulu said. The ADF suspects are also accused of masterminding a number of brutal killings including that of Maj.Muhammad Kiggundu, AIGP Andrew Felix Kaweesi and Joan Kagezi.

Interestingly, insiders share the same views with Mukulu that Museveni’s government runs a high profile mafia, “the pigs,” who are the prime suspects in the murders mentioned above, including the attempted assassination of Gen. Katumba Wamala.

The script of CMI in dragging Rwanda in the ADF saga, is laughable.   Even if it happened that Rwandan forces crossed into DRC, CMI would not be the first to know and break the news to the world.

Question is; why does Uganda always blame Rwanda for its own mess?

The answers are simple. The first one is that Rwanda has, on several occasions, proved with evidence that Uganda is supporting terrorist groups like RNC and FDLR to destabilize Rwanda. This includes recruitment, providing logistics, providing passports to terrorists’ leaders, and Museveni himself admitting out of embarrassment that he met with the RNC terror group leaders “accidentally.”

Uganda has laboured hard to find ‘equivalence’ and that’s how it comes up with factious stories that Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has deployed Special Forces units in eastern DRC to support the ADF terrorists.

Secondly, Uganda is faced with a multitude of problems both political and economic. With Ugandan traders counting losses because of Kampala’s continued harassment of Rwandans, the lie has always been that Rwanda closed the border, without explaining the reason.

With Museveni’s rating sinking lower every day, and the opposition exerting pressure on his government for rampant corruption, nepotism, and abuse of human rights, Kampala resorts to a blame game on Rwanda for anything so as to divert attention of Ugandans from the real problems affecting Ugandans. Museveni wants Ugandans to turn against Kagame, while shielding himself from blame for his dysfunctional regime.    

Whoever came up with the fake news of Rwandan forces being in eastern DRC, probably suffers from hallucinations of the Kisangani encounter and has started imagining an encounter with the invincible worriers.

Cowards do not die once.

The message behind the fake story is very clear. Someone in DRC is dead scared! The inventor of the story deserves a trophy inscribed with these words by William Shakespeare: “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”

Dear Uganda. Or, dear Museveni, blaming others, in this case Rwanda, takes time and energy away from improving yourself.