By Spy Uganda
Kampala: While appearing on popular NBS TV’s weekly front line show, FDC spokesperson, who doubles as MP Kira municipality Hon. Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, when asked to make a comment on the sudden death of Deputy Inspector General of Police Gen Paul Lokech by the show’s host, Joseph Sabiti, Nganda didn’t waste time, he went straight and put it before his fellow panellists present such as Government mouthpiece Ofwono Opondo, Godber Tumushabe and ICT Minister Chris Baryomunsi, that Gen Lokech’s recent assignment by CiC Gen Museveni during and after elections, that saw hundreds of Kyagulanyi’s supporters killed, and then the recent pronouncements he made having killed four of Gen Wamala’s suspected assassins, only puts him in the same ‘league’ with ruthless Lieutenant General Peter Elwelu of the infemous Rwenzururu palace killings.
Elwelu has been repeatedly accused of killing more than 100 people in November 2016, when he commanded the UPDF forces that descended on the Rwenzururu palace, at the climax of long-standing tensions, between the Government of Uganda and the Rwenzururu kingdom leadership, the home of the ethnic Bakonzo community.
Nganda also tasked people to find out why Lokech was called the ‘Lion of Mogadishu’. What were the assignments he accomplished other than commanding massacres?.
Previously commenting about Lokech’s death, Ssemuju’s fellow opposition leader Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu who heads the National Unity Platform (NUP) party described Lokech as someone who had a distinguished military career but which was later destroyed by President Museveni’s ‘dictatorial regime’.
“Gen. Lokech was a gallant, courageous and fine soldier. A lot has been said about his bravery on the battlefield. His peers talk of how he commanded from the front, sometimes putting his life on the line. Unfortunately, the Museveni regime has not only destroyed our nation, but has also distinguished itself in destroying careers and reputations of great men and women,” said Kyagulanyi.
Kyagulanyi said it is a pity that Lokech had accepted to be used to curtail political freedom.
“Gen. Museveni, afraid to his skin of an impending election defeat, and well aware of the kind of rigging he was plotting to do, decided to deploy Gen. Paul Lokech to stop any attempt of the people of Uganda to rise up and reclaim their democratic rights, ”he noted.
Kyagulanyi questioned the manner of death of many prominent persons over the past years.
“To date, there are many deaths which have left more questions than answers and this is one of them. To all soldiers and police officers who are still alive, my appeal to you is that you learn a lesson about this tragedy. One day we shall all be gone and what will remain in the memory of the works we did. Work for that,” he advised.
