SUDAN'S TROOPS; MUSEVENI MAN ADMITS PRESENCE OF 12,000 "SPECIAL" CONSTABLES

By Smart Musolin

Uganda government has admitted commissioning 12,000 "special constables" to provide security cover for the ongoing electoral period. Outgoing dictator Yoweri Museveni suffered heavy defeat on the worldwide Voice of America television programme when his police nominee General Kale Kaihura failed to survive a barrage of questions put to him by various experts. During Wednesday evening flagship programme hosted by Ugandan born Shaka Ssali, Kale Kaihura who used a telephone satellite link could not answer serious questions raised about the performance of the police and security situation in Uganda in general.

Asked by a caller who identified himself as a Ugandan born journalist Dr. Jesse Mashate on the alleged presence in Uganda of 12,000 Sudanese Anyanya mercenaries that had reportedly been hired to provide cover against a possible mutiny by Uganda's UPDF soldiers, Kaihura did not answer back. He however later confirmed that the NRM government had obtained the services of "12,000 special constables" to provide security cover during the electoral period. General Kaihura could neither reveal from where or how Uganda had trained or hired the "12,000 policemen", nor could he say whether or not the government had sought the clearance of the Electoral Commission or other political parties over the matter.

The journalist further asked Kaihura whether police had arrested any of the illegal fighters called "Black Mamba" and why Kaihura had provided fake police uniforms to known terrorists to undermine Uganda's constitutional organ of the judiciary and its high court.

One James Twino from Sweden questioned General Kaihura's "hypocrisy" in the re-arrest of treason suspects released by the constitutional court. He asked Kaihura, "Do you any longer take pride in being a member of the National Constitutional Commission when you are enforcing the breaking of constitutional rule?"

An Italian national from Rome bluntly told Kaihura concerning the threats that the European Electoral Observers were mere "Bazungu thugs" who should "go to hell with the FDC", that it would be the "NRM, Museveni and yourself Kaihura who shall be going to hell soon."

Smart Musolin
Entebbe (Uganda)