Ugandans should be concerned about all the saga surrounding the former Speaker of Parliament, Annet Anita Among.
Many stories have focused on the billions of money, cars, and other properties that the former Speaker of Parliament allegedly possessed, but Ugandans are not paying attention to earlier security reports that, during the search at her home, many items were allegedly recovered.
The most interesting issue is the five Israeli-made guns that were allegedly found in the former Speaker’s house. My concern is, if it is true that those guns were recovered from her home, what made her buy those guns? Was she not well protected? What were her plans?
Also, what we have on our desk is that five retired police officers were allegedly picked by the former Speaker and taken for training in Israel on how to operate these guns. Among these retired policemen who are said to have been taken for training by former Speaker Anita Among include one of the former bodyguards of former Speaker of Parliament Rt Hon Rebecca Kadaga, another who was a bodyguard to Hon Sam Engola, and the bodyguard of the late Rt Hon Jacob Oulanyah.
What I know is that any person who wishes to have private security personnel fully armed, or to train his or her security personnel, has to liaise with the police, because it is the police that conduct the training and, after training, still recommend whether you can buy guns and the type of guns, but only after serious vetting.
Now I am wondering whether that was done in this case. If it is true that guns were recovered from her, can I be right to say that the recovery of these guns by our security team was timely because lives were likely to be lost through the use of these unregistered weapons?
I will never get tired of saying thank you, Gen Muhoozi. Thank you, our badman General. You are a true saint for the people of Uganda.
In fact, I would request Gen Muhoozi that, if possible, let us go straight away to Idi Amin’s way of cleaning Uganda, then later we can reintroduce democracy, because it is too much.
The writer is a senior veteran journalist.
