The Democratic Party (DP) is watching Gen. David Sejusa, popularly Gen. David Tinyefuza very carefully. Why? Norbert Mao, who is the DP President General, says that General Tinyenfuza has in the past hoodwinked Ugandans by claiming that he had switched political sides (he had crossed from Uganda’s ruling political party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM)) and abandoned President Museveni (whom Mao refers to as ‘the Dictator’).

Tinyefuza then went back into NRM fold and President Museveni promoted him to the rank of General in Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) and also appointed him as the Coordinator of Security and Intelligence Agencies in Uganda.

“Do we believe him (Tinyefuza) today when he speaks of peoples’ uprising as being legitimate?” Mao asked on Friday as he was addressing the DP National Executive Committee (NEC) members at the DP headquarters on City House building in Kampala.

“Aren’t Tinyefuza’s security and intelligence services the ones killing and torturing Ugandans and opposition political activists in particular? Where has Tinyefuza been when some members of the security organisation violating peoples rights and freedoms?” Mao asks.

He says DP members are open- minded and they are waiting to see what follows in General David Sejusa’s corner. His recent statement that an uprising against government would be so legitimate could be his usual boxing tactics of the Museveni regime.

Mao fears that Tinyefuza could be tricking opposition activists to come out and then the same man pounce, arrest and charges them with treason, terrorism and concealing treason.

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