CMI - Museveni's instrument of dirty tricks and terror

In 1997 and 1998, a series of bombs exploded in and around several suburbs in Kampala, from Kabalagala to Makindye and other places.

After what police said were investigations, the blame was put on a rebel leader called Jamil Mukulu and the Allied Democratic Front.

That is what the state wanted the public to believe. The "Red Pepper" newspaper edition of March 8, 2006, page 7, published and most people believed this myth.

Radio Katwe knows better.

The Valentine's Day and other bomb blasts around Kampala in 1997 to 1999 were planted by the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) headed at that time by people like Brigadier Henry Tumukunde.

This is common knowledge among a few informed people in Uganda, but now Radio Katwe is making it known to the wider public.

The CMI was given the order to plant a bomb on the Eagle Air plane destined for Ajumani in February 2001 so that Colonel Kizza Besigye could be killed over northern Uganda and the incident blamed on the LRA rebels of Joseph Kony.

The same CMI came up with a devious plot during the 2001 presidential election to plant a bomb at the printing plant of the "Monitor" newspaper, as a way of blaming rebels but using that as a chance to silence the newspaper that was giving the NRM government a hard time with its criticism.

As we now know, the CMI under the orders of State House was used to take money to Judges Leticia Kikonyogo and Remmy Kasule and attempted to bribe Judge John Bosco Katutsi, in order to frustrate the presidential bid of Colonel Kizza Besigye.

During the 2001 presidential campaign, CMI headed by Colonel Noble Mayombo transferred 500 million Uganda shillings from an account in Standard Chartered Bank to the then chairman of the Electoral Commission, Aziz Kasujja, as a bribe to make sure the election was rigged in Museveni's favour.

A few weeks back, Sunday Monitor columnist Andrew Mwenda in Kampala wrote about this fact of bribing Kasujja.

The Standard Chartered account from which money was drawn to bribe Members of Parliament to vote in favour of lifting presidential term limits, was controlled by the then Chief of Military Intelligence, Colonel James Mugira.

During the recent presidential election, something took place at the CMI headquarters that has set off many whispers.

When analyzed by ethnicity, an unusually large percentage of the votes cast at the CMI polling station was Bahima. Most of these were ordinary Bahima and it seems to suggest that as a strategy, the Bahima as a sub-group have been almost totally incorporated into Museevni's dreaded security agencies.

Secondly what was even more amazing was that many of the girls we see on the streets of Kampala at night and whom we dismiss as mere prostitutes, voted at this CMI polling station.

That confirmed what some people had suspected all along, that is that the Military Intelligence and others like ISO use these prostitutes to gather information on the men in the city.

The girls are on the payroll of ISO and most men who sleep with them did not even know this. So next time you pick up that honey, watch your step.

When Radio Katwe began publishing previously top-secret details about the Museveni family and regime, sending jolts of shock all over the world and in Uganda, CMI along with its sister agencies ISO and ESO spent the whole of February 11, 2006 trying to disable the website. By monitoring and analyzing their computers at Kitante Road and Nakasero, Radio Katwe.com concluded that national internet security is in the hands of rank amateurs.

That is your tax money funded CMI in a nutshell. Full dirty tricks, but hopelessly incompetent at doing what they are supposed to be doing - protecting the people of Uganda.

This is how an organisation whose main job is to gather and analyse military intelligence for the benefit of the armed forces, has been wilfully and illegally subverted into a tool of internal sabotage, Mafioso dealings, and terror. As a result, many of them believe and act like being "feared" is good thing.

Military Intelligence has tended to be headed by well educated , army officers, some of them patriotic and pretty good lawyers, but who have been reduced by Museveni to the dishonourable life of gangsters and breakers of the law.

One of the most significant characteristics of Museveni as a leader is that he has little respect or use for due process (institutions) or civilian organizations (that he does not completely control). From his history going back 30 plus years, he has always used "personal" (nevertheless funded by your tax money) armies and armed groups whose legality can only be understood correctly as various shades of gray. So it is no surprise that most of his dirtiest work is done by the PGB, the Military Police, and Military Intelligence.

Radio Katwe has got two important things, very sensitive information and the interest of Uganda first. We have correctly deduced that committing illegal acts and crimes while wearing a security uniform, or being in the employ of a state security organization does not make one immune from prosecution as a criminal. But as long as Museveni reigns, prosecution is not an option. Therefore, the best we can do now is to expose and pre-empt their nefarious plans in the hope of saving and protecting our country.

Radio Katwe would like its readers and the general public to know that we are now evaluating extremely sensitive information on what dirty things the CMI plans to do next. Hopefully we will be ready to reveal it to you on Monday, March 13 or thereabouts, to maximize the element of surprise against CMI/State House.