The Fall Out Within Former Comrades

Dear Besigye, reveals yet another damning close details of the genesis of disagreements between comrades in the military councils, the wise man tells the tale of” how time is the greatest healer “as time goes by the formerly close guarded deliberations within the former liberators indicates that grand corruption, intrigue and favoritism was the cause of the serious divide within the former comrades.

The president particularly brushed aside numerous  allegations of corruption against General Salim Saleh who happens to be his brother as early as the 90s,in this address Dr Besigye gives one such inside account of how he become singled out as a trouble shooter.

People died in Lukoola that when you would see flies, you would know it's a dead body. What took me to the bush, was the beating I got from state operatives. I would have died but was saved by a Tanzanian soldier who I had given medication in Mulago Hospital.

Today like then, we are treated as flies whose life any one eliminates with impunity. When we got to power Mr. Museveni changed the good principles that would have changed this country for the better to principles serve but a few and you can call that greed.

We disagreed in 1989 during a face to face meeting at State House. He fired me from government and sent me to the army. At the time, it was hard to tell people that Museveni had changed and was bad, you would hardly get anyone listen to you.

At one time while in the army council, we discussed corruption. I told colleagues that we know each other. Before we talk about the general corruption, let's start from this room. We know what everyone came with, their salary and businesses. Mr. Museveni who was on the blackboard teaching said what I was raising was irrelevant and I was jealousy.

I asked for leave for two years to go for Constituent Assembly. I never wanted to go back to the army.

There was a case where Museveni wrote a letter to the Army Commander to investigate that I had helped business to evade taxes. General Muntu investigated and didn't find me guilty and he reported back.

Museveni wrote to John Patrick Amama Mbabazi who was minister then to investigate the same matter, he also found me innocent.

Museveni again asked the Solicitor General to handle the same matter it was all in vain.

I told Museveni in a meeting that why do you investigate me for all these times yet there is a person here everybody knows is corrupt (Salim Saleh) but you can't investigate him. Government of Uganda injected 72 Billion shilling in Uganda Commercial Bank and it was sold at 11 Billion.

In the last election, Mr. Museveni picked 2,000 Billion (2 trillions) from the Bank of Uganda to buy the general election. All this was done to retain Mr. Museveni in power. This is the situation I will fight until the end.

In 2001 Amama Mbabazi should have known that my fate would befall him. They called the Movement conference and we were closed out.