NANTABA: STATE SECURITY AGENTS ARE THE ONE KILLING UGANDANS NOT ADF

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In Kampala

The minister of ICT who is also the Woman Member of Parliament Kayunga District Constituency disagreed with the previous allegations said by the police that the gunmen killing famous Ugandans are not agents of Allied Democratic Front (ADF) rebel group but assassins from state security organs.

Ms Nantaba said this when she was addressing the congregation at Bukolooto Seventh Day Adventists Church in Kayunga Town during the weekend. “Truth is that the killers are within security and government.” she said.

“As Ugandans, we have more than 10,000 questions on who is choosing which Ugandan to kill like chicken. I was going to be the next, but God saved me,” Ms Nantaba said referring to the incident in which police shot dead one Ronald Ssebulime on allegations of trailing the minister on 24^th March.

The Force later recanted its earlier narrative that the deceased was armed and killed in firefight, admitting that its officers who killed the 40-year-Sebulime, while on his way to visit his two daughters at St Andrew’s SS Kabimbiri in Kayunga District.

It is still unknown whether Ms Nantaba, who was the main complainant in the case, ever recorded a statement with police on Ssebulime’s killing because she rejected initial police summons to do so, saying President Museveni had instructed her to stay at home.

Amid bursts of tears, Ms Nantaba, who repeatedly choked on words and gasped for air, said: “I was shocked when a highly-placed person in security, who was trying to hatch a plan to have me assassinated, was promoted.”

The Police Spokes Person Fred Enanga earlier said that the Minister did not connect with them seeking for help.

It does not help her by talking in tongues. She has access to the President, Inspector General of Police and Army Commander, she cannot tell us that the entire army wants to kill her, Mr Ofwono Opondo, the executive director at Uganda Media Centre, said Enanga.

Mr Fred Enanga, said they have no record of the minister’s complaint about threats to her life.

He (Enanga) said it is unfortunate that she is talking about threats in her life in the media. Let her come out and make these threats in writing.

The then Inspector General of Police, Gen Kale Kayihura, whom President Museveni fired early last year after publicly scolding him that the Force he superintended had been infiltrated by “criminal elements,” blamed the high-profile killings on ADF elements.

Gen Kayihura did not provide evidence, and Ms Nantaba punched holes in the assertions.

Ms Nantaba’s unrestrained swipe at the government incited her Tourism counterpart, Mr. Godfrey Kiwanda, to intervene onto the podium and talk her out of further verbal assault.

At the function, Ms Nantaba opposed accounts from her earlier testimony of the events that followed the late Ssebulime’s killing.

She said Ssebulime, who was riding a motorbike, confronted her twice while peeping in her vehicle.

The minister previously said Ssebulime stopped in front of her vehicle and rode away at a high speed, prompting her to pursue him.

Ms Nantaba, in accounts we could not independently verify, said a top official of Uganda Communications Commission informed her that they had identified the caller believed to have issued last-minute orders to kill Ssebulime, who was already hand-cuffed, but the regulator, claimed that the information was “too sensitive.”

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