Government spokesman Col Shaban Bantariza rejects reports that government bought surveillance software from Gamma a UK firm, to shadow the opposition’s activities to manipulate the political scene to their advantage. Col Bantariza poured scorn on the source of the supposed documents used as evidence in the BBC documentary pinning Uganda government for using surveillance software to tail opposition’s activities.

Bantariza doubts the source of their reports saying Gen Ssejusa and any other defectors from the NRM and government cannot be trusted to give authentic information. Government denies any wrong doing saying any surveillance they have done has been for the security of the country.

Godfrey Twesigye a lawyer with Unwanted witness-Uganda a non-governmental organization involved in advocating for internet freedoms says given government’s continued denial, it’d be hard to gather evidence to sue them for their abuse of the right to privacy.

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Mwaka says that opposition parties need less bloodshed but total mobilization of grassroots voters amidst ‘bogus’ electoral Commission’ the way it was done in Senegal for opposition to win the polls.

Mwaka says that opposition Political Parties in Senegal went down to the grassroots level a midst suppression of the president of Senegal and his anti opposition team. Instead of Senegalese picking guns and causing bloodshed; Mwaka says they mobilized funds from donors, mobilized opposition structures and won the voters hearts through right message!

This president Museveni’s spy wonders whether our political Parties in Uganda have the structures; the internal Democracy; the financial mobilization skills and the will to be the next government. “Can war or revolution help; will it work in Uganda without years of bloodshed? What is the best way? Thinking aloud as I salute the politicians of Senegal!

President Wade of Senegal even went ahead to amend the constitution to suit his age and put no term limits the way the Kampala government has done for president Museveni but still opposition members voted Wade out of power.

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 The FDC President Col. Kiiza Besigye has told members in this closed door NEC meeting that on 8^th November this year the FDC chairman for Kampala , Livingstone Kizito told him that spies had penetrated into the party. Day after, other members of FDC also from Kampala wrote to him that it was Kizito who was a government spy and that he frequents statehouse.

A source in FDC has told us that the party NEC has resolved Kizito is no longer responsible for presiding over any matters concerning FDC affairs in Uganda

 The FDC national executive committee has also accused Kizito of attempting to close the FDC Kampala office.

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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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