‘His Life Was At Risk, We Held Him For His Own Security’-Byekwaso Speaks Out On Kibalama’s Arrest

By Spy Uganda

Kampala: The Uganda People’s Defense Forces’ (UPDF) spokesperson Brig. Flavia Byekwaso yesterday at a presser at Uganda Media Centre revealed that it is true that sister security agencies are holding former President of the National Unity Platform-NUP, Moses Nkonge Kibalama following rumours of state abduction that had since left Ugandans wondering whether his offer of his political party to Kyagulanyi is the root cause for his arrest.

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Byekwaso said Kibalama is being held because of his own safety, she declined to name who were holding him. She also made it clear that UPDF is not involved in the operation.

Byekwaso added however that whoever is holding Kibalama is holding him for a good reason because security received credible intelligence information that there were some people who wanted to harm him.

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“The presence of soldiers, the police and others at his premises I know is for a good reason. From what I picked there were intelligence reports that indicated threats to his life and planned violence to his premises. So these are security guards protecting his premises,” said Byekwaso.

Two days ago information emerged that soldiers had surrounded the home of Kibalama found in Nansana municipality in Wakiso district and had taken him to an unknown location with his known cell phone switched off. Byekwaso who refused to disclose the actual nature of  the threat said that the security was holding Kibalama in order to give him maximum security.

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“Don’t ask me why because everybody knows how to do their work. The security depends on the gravity of the threat, if in their assessment the threat required them to remove him and put him somewhere to give him maximum security, that is what is going on,” says Byekwaso.

But speaking to reporters yesterday following a court appearance in which his leadership of the party is challenged by a section of members, Kyagulanyi denied ever promising to pay Kibalama any money. He said the State is behind Kibalama’s change of mind to try and derail his plans of taking on President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in the 2021 general elections.

“Museveni is doing everything possible so that I don’t appear on the ballot paper, this has been evident from challenging my academic qualifications, my date of birth, planting guns in my room and much more, we guarantee you that you are going to see many unbelievable things but I guarantee you Mr Museveni that we are going to defeat you in a democratic election,” says Kyagulanyi.

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