In a 9-page indictment which Nakawa Chief Magistrate Christine Nantege based on to commit opposition strongman Dr Kizza Besigye, his personal assistant Hajji Obed Lutale Kamulegeya and UPDF soldier Captain Denis Oola to the Criminal Division of the High Court for trial on the charges related to treason, State claimed that during their preparations to commit the crimes, Dr Besigye at different locations met Frank Kihehere Atukunda and Joel Wakayima who have been on Gen Museveni government’s wanted list and are still hunting for their arrest.
The indictment was approved by Justice Jane Frances Abodo the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) after being satisfied with the evidence provided by investigation agencies.
The indictment was also signed by seasoned prosecutor Thomas Jatiko and was presented to court by Senior State Attorney Richard Birivumbuka who narrated how the crimes were committed by the suspects.
He divulged that the planning involved some of the most wanted individuals who have been on run for a long time for threatening to oust Museveni’s government.
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Highly placed security sources revealed to this investigative website that both Kihehere and Wakayima ran into exile in the early 2000s after surviving being arrested on allegations of planning armed rebellion against Museveni’s government.
The hunting and arresting of the two was commanded by the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) under Brig Noble Mayombo who was accusing them of being members of the People’s Redemption Army (PRA) and wanting to overthrow Museveni’s government.
Since then, they have been exiled in European countries where they secured asylum because of the threats they were receiving and have been very actively mobilizing Ugandans locally and abroad to rise against Museveni’s government.
Sources claim that between 2008 and 2010, both suspects were recruited by celebrated international cardiologist Dr Aggrey Kiyingi Ssebowa to help him mobilize support for his political struggles against Museveni.
Sources said that Dr Kiyingi heavily invested in the two and they recruited for him a number of opposition politicians in Kampala with the biggest number being members of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC).
It is alleged Kiyingi bankrolled them in the 2011 and 2016 parliamentary elections.
Sources said that the reason why Kiyingi financially supported the said legislators was because he wanted them to establish a fertile political ground locally for his political manoeuvres against Museveni.
Unfortunately, in 2017, they cut their communication with him after Gen Edward Kale Kayihura the former Inspector General of Police (IGP) landed on their mission and diffused it.
After collecting a lot of evidence against two legislators representing Kampala city constituencies, Gen Kayihura through then the Director of Criminal Investigation Department (CID), and through the then Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga summoned the said legislators to appear at the CID headquarters at Kibuli to record statements over the allegations placed on them.
“They first ran into hiding. One of them was hiding in Mityana district where he established a very big farm using Kiyingi’s money. But because he also had planted informers in our intelligence system, when he was informed about our plan of arresting him from the farm, he rushed back to Kampala and spent days sleeping in his office at parliament,” a seasoned senior intelligence officer narrated.
The source added that this legislator rushed to his boss Kadaga for help and Kadaga summoned Kayihura to her office for an explanation after telling him that President Museveni is the only person who can save him.
Fortunately, Kadaga secured a meeting with Museveni at State House Entebbe and she travelled with the troubled legislator.
Sources said that in the meeting, the legislator confessed everything to the president who was recording whatever was being said and he even swore that he will never deal with Dr Kiyingi again.
The president made a phone call to Kayihura while still in the meeting with Kadaga and the legislator and directed him to first put on hold the arresting of the MP but continue monitoring his movements and communications.
Unfortunately, the said legislator was among those who lost his parliamentary seat in the 2021 parliamentary elections.
The said legislator, who was also a close friend to Dr Besigye, started fearing for his life knowing that Kiyingi’s men could finish him anytime yet at the same time, Kayihura was accusing him of being behind the murder of Muslim sheikhs and top individuals in the country.
Sources said that Wakayima and the friend helped Kiyingi to get in touch with incarcerated Allied Democratic Forcesb(ADF) founding Commander Sheikh Jamil Mukulu Kyagulanyi and because of the surveillance that Museveni’s intelligence placed on them, they monitored their meetings in United Kingdom, Nairobi Kenya, South Africa, Austria, German and Netherlands.
“ In 2014, both Dr Kiyingi and Mukulu survived arrest in Kenya by a whisker but Mukulu’s daughter and son who were in Nairobi with their father were arrested and brought back here in Kampala,” a source said.
Since then, Mukulu and Kiyingi stopped going to Kenya until intelligence were shocked upon picking information from Tanzanian authorities that Mukulu was arrested there in 2015.
Sources claimed that Kiyingi suffered a setback when Mukulu was arrested, and a number of his contacts locally were infiltrated including his family members that is why he stopped travelling from Sydney in 2020 because was scared of being arrested and deported back to Uganda.
Sources claim that since Dr Kiyingi died when he had already introduced Wakayima and his friends to his contacts who were ready to finance government change in Uganda, they continued mobilizing for support for their armed group the Super Coalition Against Despots (SCAD).
“ We know Wakayima is in talks with a number of people here and we are monitoring them. He has a plan of merging his SCAD and PRA and we think that is the reason why he was contacting Dr Besigye,” a source said.
According to the indictment, it was Salaam Musumba who introduced Wakayima to Dr Besigye after spending months in talks and they held several meetings in Switzerland and Greece over plans to assassinate Museveni and take over his government.
State further claimed that it was Wakayima who introduced Besigye, Musumba, Kiira Municipality legislator Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda and others to the international armed dealer Andrew Wilson to supply them with weapons to finish Museveni.
They claim that Besigye also asked for ricin poison to be used to poison top government officials and because of his seriousness on the matter, he also provided the meeting with the sketch maps of the top military installations, sensitive government buildings which were to be attacked in their alleged operations.
However, sources close to Besigye have rubbished the indictment insisting that the Besigye they know cannot hold a meeting with a known State Operative and his critic Charles Rwomushana who the State claim attended the meeting and is set to be star witness against the accused persons.
They further questioned how come that the armed dealer was the one facilitating Besigye’s men and women training in rebel activities in Zambia and Kenya as stated in the indictment.
But State insists that t was the armed dealer who leaked the deal to Ugandan security which is operating in Somalia and he was given spying equipment which he used to collect audio and video evidence which State is set to use against the accused persons during prosecution.
