Maverick historian and also a veteran fighter with the National Resistance Army (NRA) under the command of President Museveni has revealed how the Chief of Défense Forces (CDF) Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba together with controversial Lwemiyaga county legislator Theodore Ssekikubo grew up together playing football and other games inside State House compound.
Lubwama Mukubabyasi explained that the alleged ongoing political fights between Ssekikubo and some members of the first family who are supporting Retired army officer Brigadier General Emmanuel Rwashande to oust him from parliament is about identity and will be solved by President Museveni.
He said that Museveni and his young brother who also doubles as his top chief advisor Gen Salim Saleh see Ssekikubo as their son because of the support they received from his father the late Sam Mwagalwa during the liberation war against what they branded as dictatorial regimes.
Sam Mwagalwa died in 2014.
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“Ssekikubo is not new in Kaguta family, he knows them very well because he grew up there, playing football with Museveni children including Gen Muhoozi. Museveni is the one who paid his school fees and that of his siblings so don’t waste your time thinking about the ongoing fights in Lwemiyaga. All will be solved by either Museveni or Gen Saleh and Ssekikubo will turn out as the winner,” Lubwama said.
He added that Ssekikubo has done a lot of things many think annoy Museveni but when elections come, he always shields him and makes sure that he secures his victory.
He advised Gen Rwashande not to waste his time and money fighting something he cannot manage.
He was supported by Kira Municipality legislator Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda who claimed that as a journalist, during the lifting of the presidential term limits from the constitution, Ssekikubo was his source who tipped him that legislators were signing Shs5m each at Musa Courts to support the move on the floor of parliament.
He vowed and assured him of how he was not going to support the move insisting that it was very dangerous to the country.
However, he was shocked to see him the next day driving a brand Toyota land cruiser with State House number plates and an armed bodyguard.
When he tried to talk to him, he avoided him like a plague and did not want to comment on the debate of lifting term limits from the constitution.
Ssemujju said that he was later told that Ssekikubo met Museveni and he was paid handsomely, almost double what other legislators got to support the lifting of the term limits.
He added that he was also told that Ssekikubo was given security plus a new car and from then, Ssemujju accepted that nothing will separate Ssekikubo and Museveni.
However, one of Museveni’s young brothers recently assured voters in Lwemiyaga that Ssekikubo is not their relative as he claims noting that his family is behind Gen Rwashande and thgey are ready to kick Ssekikubo out of parliament because he always attacks and abuses the person of President Museveni and his son Gen Muhoozi.
Last week, Ssekikubo was denied a microphone by former foreign affairs Minister Sam Kahamba Kutesa when he wanted to speak at a function where President Museveni was the chief guest. He tried to fight for the microphone but was forced out of the function by commandos he later claimed were members of the Special Forces Command (SFC).
Ssekikubo is threatening to sue the commandos and their commanders in their personal capacities because they violated his rights and humiliated him before his voters.
