The source says that Besigye regularly tells his pals in FDC that he trusts no body in FDC until the day he will finish the struggle to oust president Museveni’s government.  One of the private secretaries of Col. Kiiza Besigye says that Besigye buys the buffets directly from the restaurants. This source says that Besigye never buys the buffets at the same restaurants. The source told our informers that when Besigye buys the buffets at Nankulabye the next day he might buy another in Kajjansi.

At home Besigye eats food from only one person, Sam Mugumya. Mugumya comes from Rukungiri district where president Museveni hails from. Both Mugumya and Besigye are Bakiga, one of the pastoral tribes inUganda.

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The board of the Electricity Regulatory is appearing before the probe committee into the energy sector that has been overshadowed by reports of corruption.

Members of the committee yesterday questioned the authority’s management over why new electricity tariffs were announced before they could be approved by the board.

The MPs demanded for a copy of the approved minutes which the management failed to produce.

Though the committee directed that the implementation of new tariffs be halted, the regulatory authority hit back, saying Parliament does not have powers to determine electricity tariffs.

The committee chairperson Jacob Oboth Oboth has tasked the ERA authorities to explain the statement issued, which he says belittled the oversight role of Parliament.

MPs Elijah Okupa and Reagan Okumu are demanding a clear explanation and extraction of the statement.

Rukungiri Municipality MP Roland Mugume says Parliament has the right to protect the interests of citizens and warns that the hiking of tariffs could spark protests.

The authority’s Chief Executive Officer Dr. Benon Mutambi denies defying the committee, saying he only implied that retracting implementation of the new tariffs might be difficult.

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The members of FDC are now divided into tribal factions with the northerners accusing the Baganda and Banyankole of being spies in FDC while the Baganda are accusing their counterparts from Rukingiri (Bakiga) of being spies.

 One of the FDC activists in FDC Kampala office, Janny Nakasolya was over heard yesterday quarreling with her colleagues in the party that she is tired of being branded a spy. Nakasolya says that when FDC leaders from Rukungiri organise parties and they invite RDCs orUgandagovernment ministers as guest of honour, no one calls them spies but when the party supporters in Buganda and northern Uganda do the same the party president Col. Kiiza Besigye and his closest cohorts in the party calls them spies.

Another FDC activist, Farida Nakabugo says that when recently Nakasolya visited the former Vice President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya she was branded a spy yet there are many FDC leaders who secretly meat state officials at night and they are not called spies.

Recently the FDC leadership inKampalasuspended the party chairperson ofKampala, Livingstone Kizito on allegations that he and the woman MP forKampala, Nabilah Sempala ‘sell’ the party youth to statehouse. Both Nabilah and Kizito deny the allegations against them.

The FDC official in charge of the youth inBuganda, Sheikh Ibrahim Kasozi says that the problem with some FDC members is that when a lower party cadre gets known in government circles that person automatically becomes a spy but when a senior FDC official befriends the state that relationship becomes normal.

He explains that this is the reason why most FDC youth inBugandasupports Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu instead of Besigye because Muntu doesn’t believe in reports of spies. Kasozi says that Muntu has been telling them that even spies have a right to be FDC members.

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Security agencies in Kampala are reportedly spying on Col. Kiiza Besigye’s home in Kasangati, in Kampala, headquarters of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), and Besigye’s up country home in Rukungiri. Besigye is the president general of FDC and he has contested for president thrice and lost the polls.

A source in security tells us that the cameras were installed five years back. The Vice president of FDC, Salaam Musumba says that FDC and Besigye are aware that UPDF and other security agencies are spying on them.

She says that the surveillance on Besigye’s home and FDC villas is now an open secret among Ugandans. Musumba however says that this invades peoples rights to privacy. Musumba further urges Uganda’s security agencies to leave Besigye and other opposition politicians in peace.

Police spokesman Asuman Mugyenyi however says he is not aware about the presence of spy cameras at Besigye’s home.

By Walakira Nyanzi

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