The Democratic Party (DP) is watching Gen. David Sejusa, popularly Gen. David Tinyefuza very carefully. Why? Norbert Mao, who is the DP President General, says that General Tinyenfuza has in the past hoodwinked Ugandans by claiming that he had switched political sides (he had crossed from Uganda’s ruling political party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM)) and abandoned President Museveni (whom Mao refers to as ‘the Dictator’).

Tinyefuza then went back into NRM fold and President Museveni promoted him to the rank of General in Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) and also appointed him as the Coordinator of Security and Intelligence Agencies in Uganda.

“Do we believe him (Tinyefuza) today when he speaks of peoples’ uprising as being legitimate?” Mao asked on Friday as he was addressing the DP National Executive Committee (NEC) members at the DP headquarters on City House building in Kampala.

“Aren’t Tinyefuza’s security and intelligence services the ones killing and torturing Ugandans and opposition political activists in particular? Where has Tinyefuza been when some members of the security organisation violating peoples rights and freedoms?” Mao asks.

He says DP members are open- minded and they are waiting to see what follows in General David Sejusa’s corner. His recent statement that an uprising against government would be so legitimate could be his usual boxing tactics of the Museveni regime.

Mao fears that Tinyefuza could be tricking opposition activists to come out and then the same man pounce, arrest and charges them with treason, terrorism and concealing treason.

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Nakawa Chief Magistrate Joyce Kabagi has dismissed the application filed by Luweero Woman MP, Brenda Nabukenya on grounds that it was filed in a wrong court which has no jurisdiction to handle the matter.

The magistrate also said that the complainant did not secure a letter from the local authorities at Buziga, where Gen. Nyakairima resides.

In her application, Nabukenya had requested court to issue criminal summons against Nyakairima over alleged charges of treason.

Nyakairina allegedly said that the army would take over the government if leaders continued to practice bad politics.

The remarks made during a news conference at the ministry of Defense headquarters last month, drew outrage from a cross section of Ugandans including some members of the inner circle in the army.

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The race has attracted three candidates including Gen Mugisha Muntu Nandala MAfabi and Geofrey Ekanya.

According to new opinion polls results released by the Research World International released today, Gen Muntu has slightly gained scoring 49% up from 47% last month .

Maj. Gen. Gregory Mugisha Muntu

The polls released by the Chief executive office Research world international Dr. Patrick Wakida indicates that Nandala Mafabi droped from 26% to 25% in the new polls while Godfrey Ekanya has slightly moved up from 1% last month to 3% this month.

The poll however shows Nandala leading in some parts of eastern region.

He says 445 delegates out of 500 were sampled in this research which was carried between 25^{th of September and 3rd of this month out of which 23% were still undecided.}

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This came after General Sejusa, formerly called Tinyefuza quoted in the media saying that Uganda could slide to worse chaos because of impunity, corruption and violence if Government does not change the way the Country is run.

Addressing Journalists at Parliament Colonel Mwesigye said he has made an appointment with General Tinyefuza to discuss the way forward and why he decide to use other channels of communication yet their laid procedures on how an officer is supposed to channel the grievances which the media captured.

Colonel Mwesigye is among the 27 Historical who went to bush in 1981 to start the liberation war that brought the current government (the National Resistance Army) to power

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The leader of opposition in parliament Nandala Mafabi who is currently contesting alongside Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu and Tororo Municipality MP Geoffrey Ekanya to replace Col. Kiiza Besigye as Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president is in Kyenjonjo district meeting party delegates.

Nandala asked FDC leaders and supporters to support his candidature to replace Besigye. But some of the party delegates asked him why he doesn’t leave Muntu to takeover from Besigye since he (Nandala) is still young and has more time to lead the party in future.

In retaliation Nandala told them that the youth are the leaders of tomorrow and that his tomorrow has come. Mafabi assured the FDC delegates that he will build strong and functional party structures that will help the party win next general elections.

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Former Uganda army commander, Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu is set to receive his law degree course at Arusha University next year.

Muntu, who is currently vying to replace Col. Kiiza Besigye as the president General of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC). He is tussling it with two people, leader of opposition business in parliament, Nandala Mafabi (Budadiri west MP) and Tororo Municipality MP, Geoffrey Ekanya.

Gen. Muntu, a graduate of Social Sciences at faculty of social sciences Makerere University was enrolled to a bar course during the time he represented Uganda as a member of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA).

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The next National Resistance Movement (NRM) presidential candidate must be a grassroots person, a man or a woman of the people, who easily identifies with them, appreciates their works and the person who appreciates peoples’ village folks and cultures in diversity.

Gen. Salim Saleh says that the person capable of replacing Museveni as NRM National Chairman and consequently the party’s flag bearer must be one who can share his/her  experiences in regards to rural mobilization and at the same time mingle with the urban folks and opposition leaders.

He says that the person to replace Museveni must know what it means to get politically fired up and remains sober and getting the votes out from the electorates.

Saleh, while chatting with NRM cadres at the NRM party head offices in Kampala yesterday said that the next Party presidential flag bearer’s job must be getting the party support into real voters which will amount to winning an election for NRM candidates at all levels like the way Museveni has been doing.

The general says that the people preparing to replace Museveni must not only be theoretical speakers, conference paper presenters and lecturers but people who are willing to fold their sleeves and get to work. He says that some people persuade Museveni to leave the party leadership but NRM still lacks tested, proven worthy, committed and hardworking persons like Museveni is doing.

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Uganda virtually has no national identity cards (IDs). Only 400 Ugandans out of the population of 33 million people are privileged citizens holding Uganda national IDs.

The people holding national IDs are President Museveni, Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire, Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa, Brig. Muhoozi and Gen. Salim Saleh among others.

No one will ever really ask president Museveni and his allies for identification. Museveni, Mbabazi and a few other government officials were the first recipients of the national IDs that cost a scandalous 185 billion shillings. We already told you that only a total of 400 Ugandans hold national IDs, this means that each ID cost Ugandan taxpayers 462.5 million shillings.

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The people holding national IDs are President Museveni, Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire, Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa, Brig. Muhoozi and Gen. Salim Saleh among others.

No one will ever really ask president Museveni and his allies for identification. Museveni, Mbabazi and a few other government officials were the first recipients of the national IDs that cost a scandalous 185 billion shillings.

We already told you that only a total of 400 Ugandans hold national IDs, this means that each ID cost Ugandan taxpayers 462.5 million shillings.

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It seems the time for using Col. Kiiza Besigye’s vast money circles to fund the activities of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) will end with the election of either Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu, MP Geoffrey Ekanya or MP Nandala Mafabi to replace him as party president.

So the next FDC Party President must be one who is capable of assisting the party to do some entrepreneurship ventures for the party to generate the necessary revenue resources to run the party programs and be able to implement the FDC Party Strategic Plans.

Sources within FDC tell us that each of the three candidates in the race to replace Besigye assures the delegates that he is an accomplished entrepreneur whose skills can be used to generate billions of money for the party to run forward.

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