BRIG. ELWELU TO BRIG. KASIRYE GWANGA AND OTHER UGANDANS: I WAS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT TO KILL PEOPLE AT KASESE PALACE
By Okoodi Deo
in Mbarara—
UPDF 2nd Div. Commander Brig. Peter Elwelu has vowed to take full
responsibility of the attack on Obusinga bwa Rwenururu Palace. During
the raid several people were killed and King Charles Wesley Mumbere
now incarcerated in Luzira Prison was also arrested.
Brigadier Elwelu told the world that he will forever stand by the
action he took even when he is before his creator in heaven and that
nobody should threaten or intimidate saying it had to be done that
way.
He said the attack on the palace by the armed forces which he
commanded was in accordance with laws of Uganda and that they acted
professionally otherwise he would have finished all people who were at
the palace by the time of the raid but was able to save lives in a
situation where it was not easy .
Elwelu said UPDF knew that they were taking on a force more motivated
to fight them and they went for it and see who takes the day.
Speaking to www.mknewslink.com editor Elwelu blasted Brigadier Kasirye Gwanga, the
presidential advisor on security in Buganda region saying that he
erred in Judgment and could have defied orders and devised other less
forceful tactics to take out wrong elements instead of killing several
palace people.
He said Kasirye Gwanga who was a sergeant in Iddi Amin’s army knows
nothing about national security and has never commanded any battle
adding that the rank of a brigadier he got should be investigated
because it was given to him through trickery after deceiving army
leadership that he wanted to retire but later came back to the force
two days after had been retired claiming that he could not integrate
himself with the civilians.
Commenting on defying orders as said by Brigadier Kasirye Gwanga in
the Press, Elwelu said such behaviors which were the order of the day
in the past regimes can’t apply in UPDF with a quite different
doctrine where soldiers are a disciplined and with due respect to the
leaders adding that Gwnga he can probably teach him how to take the
weed but not issues of national security and advised him to check on
his profession record and see his profile in order understand the type
of a soldier is trying to undermine
Kasiye Gwanga was recently quoted in the press saying that Brig.
Elwelu whom he called an Idiot and a creation of Kimaka, should have
cordoned off the palace and denies the King and his people food supply
and water with a view of forcing them come out instead of blindly
taking orders from someone in Entebbe or Nakasero to shoot and kill
people noting that he is in trouble and will be tried one day for such
criminally reckless conduct because the evidence is simply