Ono Bwino the mighty investigative website can exclusively report that the United State of America’s Central Intelligence Service (CIA) and Britain’s M16 have picked interest in Dr Kizza Besigye’s allegations of planning to assassinate President Yoweri Museveni and poisoning his top government officials.
CIA is a vital intelligence agency responsible for collecting and analysing foreign intelligence which is used to protect the USA and its partners.
M16 is also a British secret Intelligence Service which collects Britain’s foreign intelligence and provides government with a global covert capability to promote and defend the national security and economic well-being of the British people.
Highly placed security sources revealed to this website that both intelligence agencies asked Ugandan intelligence to share with them the audio recordings which security operatives claim to have extracted from Besigye’s phone and any other relevant ones where he was recorded discussing with arms dealers on how to provide with him weapons which were going to be used in killing Museveni and his men.
Sources said that M16 picked interest because the allegations were placing Britain in the middle of the deal to supply weapons to Besigye after it was disclosed that the arms dealer in the saga is a British citizen who leaked the secret information to president Museveni hence resulting in the suspect’s kidnap from Nairobi Kenya.
Sources added that CIA picked interest in the matter because it is a security partner to Uganda and there are also allegations that American citizens were also involved in the deal.
This website cannot confirm whether the Americans and British confirmed the authenticity of the recordings after testing them but highly placed sources recently told this website that the president was very bitter with operatives who manned the operation because there were a lot of gaps that were left unfilled when they were combining the intelligence information, they gathered which embarrassed the country before the international community.
“The president is already cleaning the country’s intelligence circles especially at the Defence Intelligence and Security (DIS) because people have been using those offices to make money. You heard the changes recently. Even the DIS Director General was demoted,” a senior intelligence officer said.
Sources claim that Besigye’s arrest might have been a deal made by senior security bosses to get money from the President for the operation and as things are progressing now, it will be difficulty for the Director of Public Prosecution(DPP) to rely on the said audio recordings and other evidences extracted from Dr Besigye and his political assistant Hajji Obed Lutale’s phones because the matter was supposed to be handled before the accused persons committed to the High Court for trial.
“ We don’t know if when the trial starts, the presiding Judge will allow our application to use the evidence collected from the accused’s phones. The matter was supposed to be handled before their committal but we shall see when we reach that bridge,” a senior prosecutor in the office of the DPP said.
Sources added that even the statements made by Besigye’s wife Winnie Byanyima after the kidnapping of her husband also forced international intelligence agencies to pick interest in the matter.
Byanyima disclosed that in the room from where Besigye was allegedly plotting his moves, there were Bazungu but it is surprising that they were not arrested and added on the file.
It is on this note that Byanyima insisted that her husband was set up.
Veteran investigative journalist Andrew Mwenda insists that if investigations were done, international intelligence agencies might have discovered truth from the recordings and advised their governments not to comment on the matter because in previous arrests, the United States of America, Britiain and other European countries have always been very vocal on condemning Besigye’s persecution by Museveni government.
Mwenda claimed that because Americans and British see National Unity Platform (NUP) principal Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine) as the politician who can command political change against Museveni, he was advised to go slow on Besigye issues which he did even though at first he was very vocal on the matter.
Mwenda boasted that he did investigations on the audio recordings and established that there was truth in them that is why he defended Besigye’s arrest and prosecution.
“Besigye and his lawyers miscalculated when they fought against him being tried in the Court Martial because if he was tried in the Court Martial, he was going to receive sympathy from the public. The public would think that he was being persecuted but in civilian courts, people will continue advising him to wait because he told them it is where he expects to get justice,” Mwenda said.
This website has established that there are no witnesses ready to testify on the said audios while Besigye’s lawyers led by Kenyan senior lawyer Martha Karua insist that the said audios are fake.
In a related development, Besigye’s lawyers have started the move to petition Justice Emmanuel Baguma of the High Court to recuse himself from hearing the next bail application of their clients.
Kampala Lord Mayor Ssalongo Erias Lukwago who is also one of Besigye’s lawyer said that they no longer have trust in Justice Baguma.
They accuse him of taking a long of time to hear their client’s bail application and when he was pressurized to hear it, he dismissed it without giving them a proper reason.
He insists that Baguma is biased against Besigye.
He also wondered how he could declare that since his kidnap from Kenya in November 2024, he is not a beneficiary to the mandatory bail together with his co-accused.
Besigye’s People’s Front for Freedom (PFF)’s deputy president in charge of Buganda Dr. Lulume Bayiga threatened that if judiciary declines to listen to them concerning Justice Baguma’s complaint, they will mobilize the masses and raid Chief Justice Owiny Dollo’s office to pleaded with him to intervene into their matter.
