Renegade
UPDF General David Sejusa aka Tinyefuza over the weekend launched an
opposition political party in London and cautioned President Museveni
that his 28-year reign could come to an end soon.
The
former spy chief who launched his party on Saturday, named his party
the ‘Freedom and Unity Front’. “He’s had enough time,” Gen Sejusa said
on the sidelines of a meeting to launch his party. “He can leave and go,
and we start a new process of national healing. And we are organising
ourselves, we are establishing a constitutional rule which he
destroyed,” Sejusa told Reuters at the launch.
When
contacted, Defence and Military spokesperson Paddy Ankunda laughed off
before saying that he does not want to waste time on such news. “He
(Sejusa) very well knows that he is breaking the law since he has not
officially retired from the army,” Lt Col Ankunda said yesterday.
Adding: “That is justkajoogo (literally meaning familiarity).”
When
Gen Sejusa was asked at the launch of his party if he would use force
to bring change, he said: “It’s not so much that we want to do so. But
if he (Museveni) continues to unleash terror on the population ours will
be self-defence.”
The fall out
Early
this year, the five-star general fled the country to the UK after he
wrote a dossier to the internal security boss asking him to investigate
assassination claims on top government and military officials opposed to
the First Son Brig Muhoozi Kainerugaba being groomed to take over from
his father.