The trial of UPDF soldiers charged with nursing a plot to overthrow president Museveni’s government has been fixed on October 30 at the military court.

The suspects worked in different capacities in the Office of the Coordinator of Intelligence Services headed by now exiled Gen. David Sejusa. Brig Moses Ddiba Sentongo, the chairman of the Makindye-based General Court Martial confirmed the development. The court’s judge advocate, Maj Raphael Mugisha, says that their court is well constituted.

Gen. Sejusa’s lawyers include Lance corporals James Karuhanga Nayebale, Moses Nuwagaba Kakarugahi, Abel Twinamasiko, Grace Nasasira Rwakyozi, 39, Geoffrey Mwebaze Karuhanga, 36 (all the suspects are from western Uganda where president Museveni and Gen. Sejusa comes from). These spies are attached to Special Forces Comand’s Task force Battalion and two Tank Battalion, respectively. Another spy of Sejusa, Frank Ninsiima is charged with treachery. Museveni’s government claims that these and other spies and supporters of Gen. Sejusa still at large, between March and May 2013 failed to disclose to government information about the recruitment of people intending to overthrow Museveni’s national resistance Movement government.

According to the charge sheet, these Sejusa’s supporters procured by their co-accused to recruit colleagues in presidential guards into subversive activities and shoot the president instead of offering him protection.

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