PARASATIC OR SYMBIOTIC Will Dr Besigye, Sejusa’s on and off Love Affair Hold this Time Around or Prove Again to be the Perfect Legendary Cat and Mouse Relationship? Dr Warren Smith Kizza Besigye Kifeefe and exiled Gen David Sejusa Munungu aka Tinyefuuza have kicked up what passes for a 13 year olds’ first love. Besigye has been all over the place telling all sundry how he has met Sejusa, wined, dined and discussed at length how to send the son of Esteri, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni back to Rwakitura. Whoever coined the dictum that “there are no permanent friends or enemies in politics, but interests”, must have had these two guys’ new found love in mind. Best man A year after taking over power, Sejusa chose to marry. When he scanned all his war comrades, he found Besigye fitting the billing of the best man he wanted. CA days During the Constituent Assembly days, Besigye and Sejusa debated in the like way on almost all issues. Their brevity while they debated thorny issues almost brought them into problems with government. Sejusa 1996 missive When Sejusa issued his very first missive taunting his army bosses of corruption and inefficiency, blaming it for the army’ failure to root out the former altar boy Joseph Kony’s ragtag rebels, which excited his commander in Chief (CIC) Museveni’ rage to boiling proportions, Besigye did not come out to openly defend his buddy. However, inside sources has it that Besigye was in agreement with Sejusa at heart. What stopped him from expressing his feelings openly, he was a serving army officer then. He knew better he would have ended up in Sejusa’s sh...t, had he dared shoot off his mouth. 2001 Campaigns What shows that Besigye was on all fours with Sejusa in 1996, the Kasangati resident would issue his own missive five years later. In the missive, Besigye accused government of throwing the bush war ideals to the wind, embracing excesses of yesteryear swines. A close look at the two missives, gives the impression that the two bush war comrades could have read from the same script before putting pen to paper. When Museveni elected to have Besigye arraigned before the dreaded court martial, Sejusa did not come to the defense of his best man. He instead supported the move. This was to be expected. Sejusa had ‘regretted’ his 1996 mistakes. He had made peace with Kaguta, earning himself a recall to the overflowing “yellow” dining table. It was Besigye’s tribesmen in Rukungiri, who made political noise, scaring Kaguta into reconsidering his court martial orders lest the Bakiga ended up messing him at the polls for messing up their own. Presidential bid When the Rukungiri man made ago at Kaguta’s sweet chair, Sejusa jumped to Museveni campaign bandwagon. He would go on to tell and sundry how he grew goose pimples each time he thought of saluting the lowly ranked Besigye as President and Commander-In-Chief. To prove his contempt for Besigye, Sejusa covertly and overtly used his influential military position to undermine his supposed buddy Besigye. Sejusa who formed part of the High Command and Army Council must have been privy to decisions to place soldiers at polling stations and chasing away of voters and polling assistants from the polling stations, to necessitate vote stealing and switching. For purposes of fairness, one can argue that Sejusa had to act the way he did in order to please his commander-in-chief (CIC) Museveni who had just forgiven him for the “1996” missive. The fact that what the CIC says goes, one can also conclude that Sejusa had nothing to do. He had to take his CIC orders to the detriment of his buddy. But, another person can argue that Sejusa should have acted professionally. The way the then Army Commander Maj Gen Gregory Mugisha Muntu Mutunyera did when he one time called into all FM Radio Stations to clarify that soldiers had to salute whoever ended up in State House. This was after Sejusa and other senior army officials had sworn never to salute any other presidential winner other than Museveni. PRA rebels When Besigye was arrested for starting rebellion via the shadowy Peoples Redemption Army (PRA), Sejusa’ invisible hand was reported to be behind the plot. It was the same story when Besigye was framed with charges of raping his adopted daughter one Kyakuwa. Kony Sejusa was also much involved in coming up with the wild story connecting Besigye to the dreaded and internationally marked terrorist Kony. He was much involved in securing the services of the self-confessed murderer and Kony’s top commander Alfred Onen Kamdulu to testify against Besigye. For Sejusa, a human rights lawyer to line up a murderer to pin his best man, instead of marching him to ICC for prosecution, speaks volumes about Besigye and Sejusa’s so called love! Black Mamba Sejusa would later unleash the black-robed Black Mamba commandos to the High Court to re-arrest Besigye’s alleged rebels (PRA) in a style that left the world shaking with shame. That the lawyer could attack the sanctuary of the Court of Law in a mafia fashion, in order to further the torture of his friend puts Sejusa and Besigye’s love under question marks. So chilling the feat was, it prompted the then respectable Principal Judge James Ogoola Munange to appropriately baptize it the “Rape of the Temple of Justice. The Uganda Law Society disowned Sejusa, in Attorney General Peter Nyombi fashion. The legal fraternity also held a demo to denounce the repeat of that memorable 1972 mafia invasion of the High Court. The one staged by Amin that ended with the kidnap of the first Ugandan Chief Justice Ben Kiwanuka never ever to be seen alive again. Chained Candidate While Besigye registered to run for presidency in jail, Sejusa was high up in the military hierarchy and must have been privy to that abuse. Jailing him was in fact intended to have him miss nomination and therefore running for the presidency. It’s why the then Attorney General Prof Khidu Makubuya gave a ‘legal’ opinion stopping suspects from running for presidency. Never mind the Constitutional presumption of innocence until a suspect is finally proven guilty by a competent court of law. Terrorist When court finally tossed out the bogus treason charges against his best man, Sejusa attacked the learned judges for “setting free terrorists.” Sejusa stated that the judges gave him the impression that they were in bed with the terrorists. And out to fail the State from fighting terrorism. Pepper Spray Perhaps, the worst of all abuse that was visited upon his friend with Sejusa at the pinnacle of intelligence as the Joint Coordinator of Spy Agencies is one when Besigye was sprayed with pepper. A young man Gilbert Arinaitwe Bwana jolted the world when he happily sprayed pepper directly in Besigye’s rolling eyes as if he was spraying a cockroach. After he was done with the abuse, Bwana dragged the frail Besigye and forced him under metals behind a police pick up. He would deliver the man to court in that blind condition. Besigye had to seek specialized and expensive treatment abroad before he could recover his big eyes. Even then, the military, where Sejusa was a top dog, had refused to give permission to the ailing Besigye so he could seek treatment. Foreign embassies had to literally “bark”, before the military could let Besigye board the flight. Marriage of convenience Said and done, Sejusa and Besigye’s relationship is the classic “fake love” entered between politicians to land short term objectives. After which, the political lovers pull off a suicidal divorce many times. History is littered with so many such marriages, to detain us here. Trap? Borrowing from the past, when Sejusa jumped ship only to return to the fold and spill beans of whoever incited him, we are afraid Besigye could be playing in Sejusa’s trap. As such, don’t be surprised tomorrow to see Sejusa and Museveni happily tossing champagne and Besigye in the bus to Luzira.
Posted on: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 21:15:54 +0000
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