The statehouse senior press secretary Lindah Nabusayi has announced that President Museveni will update the nation on security matters this Saturday.
Nabusayi says the address will happen at 8 pm and broadcast across all Televisions and Radios countrywide.
Museveni on Wednesday while celebrating Ugandan Olympian medalists and participants boosted how the country’s sports sector is able to thrive because of an abundance of peace and security.
Sevo bragged“Someone was saying it was a miracle for Uganda to perform well at the Olympics. This was not a miracle. The sportsmen are coming out spontaneously by themselves but it is because there is peace,”
Museveni further explained that by investing in peace and security at border points and the Karamojong area, sports have been able to flourish with star athletes now mushrooming.
”Why had it not come out before? One thing that was missing was peace. In the past, the people of Bukwo couldn’t showcase their talent because of being at the border with Kenya and were being raided by Pokot in Kenya and Karimojong.”
His address comes at a time when there is tension at Uganda’s border with South Sudan following reports of the ousting of the nation’s leader Riek Macher.
The country’s main rebel group, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO) announced it had ousted leader Riek Machar.
Large numbers of Ugandan Traders operating between the Nimule -Juba Border have expressed fears that if the conflict escalates it will affect their businesses.
Regional African trade body IGAD has called on the two rival military factions of Sudan’s People’s Liberation Army-in Opposition (SPLA-IO) in South Sudan to open the path for dialogue after deadly fighting at the weekend.
The now DR Congo-based Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebel group is connected to high-profile murders and robberies in Uganda.
8 suspects are in custody at Kitalya for the attempted murder of Works minister, Gen Edward Katumba Wamala, and the killing of his daughter Brenda Nantongo and driver Haruna Kayondo in Kisaasi, a Kampala suburb.
The group that has been behind linked to ADF rebels is also said to be behind high profile killings including that of Maj Muhammad Kiggundu in Masanafu, Kampala, on November 26, 2016; former police spokesperson Andrew Felix Kaweesi in Kulumbiro, on the outskirts of Kampala, on March 17, 2017; Assistant Director of Public Prosecution Joan Kagezi, and those of at least seven Muslim clerics.
Following the Gen Katumba shooting, President Museveni on June 29th, 2021, directed Security Minister Gen Jim Muhwez to have all vehicles and motorcycles fitted with security tracking devices.
The proposal was first made by Museveni in 2018 during his 10 point security master plan to combat rising urban criminality following gruesome murders.
A Russian company, Global Systems LLC has been signed up for this development.
Ugandans have since criticized the move as a matter that infringes on the privacy of Ugandans.
City lawyer Male Mabririzi has petitioned the High court for a permanent injunction prohibiting any Uganda Government official from implementing the Cabinet decision on grounds of being unconstitutional.
An activist Onesmus Muwanga has also petitioned Parliament to resist the government’s plan saying it robs citizens of their right to freedom and privacy.
The issue of the Mailo land tenure system and a closed-door meeting between the Kabaka Ronald Mwenda Mutebi ii and the president has left many anxious.
Sources said the Nakasero State Lodge meeting was organized to discuss issues pertinent to Buganda and Uganda’s development.
“During the meeting, President Museveni and Kabaka Mutebi discussed development matters of mutual interest between the Kingdom and the government. The two leaders later briefly exchanged pleasantries, both acknowledging that they have taken long without a meeting, before going in for a closed-door meeting,” reads a brief statement issued by the Presidential Press Unit.
However, the tension between the Buganda kingdom, its subjects and the head of state seems too stagnant until a solution is compromising solution is made.
“Landowners should be entitled to full ownership of their land like elsewhere in Uganda. In Ankole, nobody can chase you away from your land. You even fear…”Museveni said in April
Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja last week said to a joint NRM induction committee of MPs that some of the proposed amendments in the land law were meant to stop the “senseless evictions” in the country.
“He talked about the amendment of the Land Act; he said we should amend the land law so that the bibanja owners pay their busuulu [ground rent] to the sub-county chiefs in case their landlords are not available,Our bibanja owners have lost land because their landlords sometimes [deliberately] hide and when they go to court, they say [so and so] did not pay busuulu. This must stop and as leaders, it’s our responsibility to protect and defend people from evictions,” she said
