Recent major swindles and embezzlement under Museveni’s regime

1) Energy and Power Sector. Importing sub-standard solar electric generating equipment from China, Thailand and Malaysia which will work for a short period and then break down. There is no evidence where it has worked and word has it that the Chinese have failed to market them anywhere else.

2) Kinyara Sugar works sale. Where the deal is jointly with Madhivani to undervalue the project and they pocket the difference.

3) Hotel industry. Specifically related to the up coming Commonwealth meeting whereby huge amounts of money will exchange hands between the "investors", government officials and political leaders who approve the deals. Reports in Kampala say that property mogul Sudhir Ruparelia demanded and got an upfront payment for all rooms in all his hotels ahead of CHOGM and even if the summit is cancelled or poorly attended, he will gain everything.

4) Works and Transport Ministry. Where ONE ship has been ordered and the cost was inflated to the cost of THREE ships from Russia by the government. The prices and costs have been grossly undervalued so that these hungry and greedy guys want to eat the money for TWO ships. That deal involves Minister John Nasasira and some officials in State House.

5) Ministry of Education scandal. Whereby a cool Uganda shillings 2.5 billion (or 1.3 million U.S. dollars) and 1.2 billion (or 700,000 U.S. dollars) has been diverted and word goes around that the money was used for the Museveni 2006 election campaigns. The 1.4bn was for building schools in the disadvantaged north and AIDS kits. The ministry officials contract most of the publishing to themselves and big wigs in government. Word is that the owners of Mukono Bookshop gave the Permanent Secretary F.X.K Lubanga a hotel as a handshake and thank you.

6) NSSF Alcon scandal. Whereby a cool $28 million dollars was going to be scooped to pay the owners of Alcon as an out-of-court settlement when in fact Alcon is worth $500000 only. Word is that they distorted information to make it appear as Workers House in Kampala was under threat of being sold off and when the information leaked the President temporarily stopped the deal to get rid of those obstructing the deal like the former minister Bakoko Bakoru.

Word is that she is being politically persecuted to justify the eventual theft and robbery of workers’ National Social Security money by discrediting her and the others who worked to provide able leadership which has seen that fund grow into the one and the ONLY biggest financial giant institution in Uganda.

Who is who in Museveni’s security detail

Major Herbert Makanga, former Aide de Camp, named as a torturer of people in ISO safe houses. Now a UPDF commander in western Uganda.

Captain Stuart Agaba, the current ADC and bodyguard to Museveni.

Captain Patrick Akoragye, the Commanding Officer of Janet Museveni’s security detail.

Captain Dan Kakono<, operations and training officer in the Presidential Guard Brigade tank battalion. If there is a coup attempt or uprising, he is the officer who will command the tanks that come to crush protesters.

Captain Michael Kanyamunyu, an ICT expert attached to the Joint Anti-Terrorism Unit. He is the one who wrote a letter to Makerere University in 2006 asking for any document with the signature of the late James Opoka. The document was to be used in forged documents implicating Kizza Besigye in PRA activities.

Captain Herbert Nabimanya, PGB intelligence officer. In charge of gathering operational intelligence on places where Museveni is travelling and watching the PGB boys to make sure they don’t turn against the Commander in Chief.

David Katanywa, special undercover aide to Museveni. Job description: assassinating Museveni’s personal rivals and enemies. He is one of Museveni’s assassins. Related to Prince John barigye of Ankole.

Major Johnson Namanya, operations officer in the PGB, trained as tank commander, formerly a journalist. He is the one who commands the PGB in daily routine.

Major Vincent Bagambaki, PGB technical officer, in charge of electronics jamming, electronic metal detection, and bomb diffusion. He is the one who makes sure that bombs and ammunition are kept away from harming M7.

Mehta in panic as Ugandans boycott sugar, burn plantations

In the past few days Radio Katwe has been receiving news of the reaction to the controversial sale of Mabira forest to the Indians of the Mehta sugar company at Lugazi.

Local media in Kampala reported on March 28 that the sugar plantations of Mehta at Lugazi have been set on fire in some areas. The police has not yet identified the culprits.

Many Ugandans have been urging for a boycott of the Mehta sugar and some reports in Kampala and Jinja say that the sales of the sugar by Mehta have been dropping since last week.

some dealers in general merchandise are saying that they will not stock Mehta's sugar because they fear that the boycott will continue and they will not find customers for the sugar.

The Mehta Board of Directors is reported to have met in emergency yesterday and top of the agenda was the boycott which is affecting their business.

Radio Katwe is getting reports that Mehta is considering giving up the claim on the Mabira forest because it seems the move is doing the company more harm than good.

Other reports getting to Radio Katwe say that things are very complicated at the moment.

It is reported that during the recent presidential campaign Mehta was one of the big contributors to Museveni's campaign. He gave Museveni more than one million dollars in exchange for the favours which Museveni has given him in form of dodging some taxes.

In fact Radio Katwe is getting reliable information from Kampala that the saga of Mabira is none other than Museveni's move.

Museveni and his stooges have a financial interest in Mehta and they are using the company as a front to get their hands on Mabira.

Kampala media reports put the value of the timber and trees in Mabira at more than 250 million dollars.

Museveni, Janet his wife and brother Salim Saleh want that timber money. That is why they are using Mehta as a pretext.

If you have any information on this national scandal, or if you work in the Mehta sugar company and you have any inside information on what is going on and what Mehta plans to do next, as a patriotic Ugandan we appeal to you to send it to Radio Katwe.

Do not use your name because you need to protect your identity.

Stay tuned for more updates on this forestgate scandal.

State House begins vetting judges

Word reaching us is that State House has began vetting a number of names for positions as Judges of the High Court.

Although Museveni behaved as if he was not affected by the recent strike by judges for one week, he was angry that they had made him look like a fool before the public and donors. Sources inside State House say that an angry Museveni has decided to "sort out" the Judiciary.

At the moment the High Court bench is under staffed and M7 wants to fill these vacancies with his own cadres.

He knows that as time goes by he will be winning elections more out of High Court rulings than popularity. This was the case in 2001 and 2006. He will not accept to have a High Court that has Judges who see him as a dictator.

We are yet to get the names of the lawyers will be chosen to become judges. As soon we our sources get them, we shall publish them on Radio Katwe.

If you have any information on who is going to be picked to be a Judge you can always share it with us so that we share it with concerned Ugandans.

So far there is talk that Justice Steven Kavuma could move up to a more senior position like Principal Judge if the present Principal Judge James Ogoola retires.

As Principal Judge, Kavuma would play the role of keeping the other justices in the “correct” NRM line.

What is behind the tensions in the ruling Bahiima clan?

Tensions between Bahima factions plague Museveni regime are reported to be high and they are rising every day.

There are two main centers of power in the NRM regime. These are the Bahiima of the Basiita clan who are the real rulers of Ankole. Janet Museveni is one of them. Then you have the Bahiima who are Bahororo from Rukungiri.

These are the Bahiima who are General Aronda Nyakirima, Major General Jim Muhwezi, and people like Brigadier Henry Tumukunde.

The Bahiima who dominate Museveni's security in the Presidential Guard Brigade were mainly brought into the PGB by Janet and her aides, but the people who dominate the most sensitive part of intelligence are those from Rukungiri, the Bahororo. These were recruited by Muhwezi and Tumukunde when they were bosses of the dreaded Internal Security Organisation.

Radio Katwe would like those who know the tensions between these two groups to write in and send more information on this developing story.

Where is the power these days, among the Basiita Bahiima or the Bahororo? Is this the reason why Muhwezi and Tumukunde are being persecuted by Museveni?

We want to know.

M7 at last sells off Mabira forest

t has emerged that President Museveni has decided to go ahead with the sale of Mabira forest.

Sources say that the decision was reached at a cabinet meeting on March 16, 2007. Museveni ordered the National Forest Authority to expedite the process.

Most ministers in the cabinet meet sat very quietly as Museveni gave his usual decrees. Most of the ministers feel that Uganda's climate could be seriously affected by the cutting down of trees. They were not happy in the meeting that Museveni is using institutes of state to push his own family deals.

But they could not oppose the president in cabinet and kept quiet. This information was given to Radio Katwe by a minister whose identity we shall keep secret. Otherwise he could lose his job overnight.

Last year when the plans for selling Mabira were floated they caused a public outcry.

Museveni is a shareholder in the Mehta Group of Companies. Last year the Danish expatriate who headed the National Forest Authority was forced to resign when he refused to accept Museveni's order to sell Mabira.

Lady Charlotte boss told to back off City Park land

Reports reaching Radio Katwe say that the controversy of who can build on the land next to Garden City complex has ended in a win for the Somali concubine of super minister Sam Kuteesa.

They say that the land was originally bought legally by Sarah Kizito popularly known in Kampala as Lady Charlotte. She is a wife of the former boxer Godfrey Nyakaana.

The Somali woman who is called Amina also wanted the land to build her hotel ahead of the CHOGM meeting in November.

The case went to court and the court ordered that all building on the plot should stop. But these days Amina's working is going on because she is connected to powerful people in Museveni's mafia government.

Amina is known to be a very rich and powerful woman. She brings cement into Uganda and does not pay a single cent in taxes.

Sarah Kizito called a press conference last year to put her position to the media but Kampala journalists got threatening calls from Museveni's Political aide Moses Byaruhanga telling them to back off the "untouchable" powerful woman behind the hotel.