Rt. Col. Kizza Besigye joined Christians at St. Andrews in Mbale for prayers. Speaking to journalists after the Sunday service, Besigye blamed the spells of murders in the country on President Museveni. “Head of security institutions is dysfunctional himself, somebody who is supposed to be the Commander in Chief. You don’t dwell on Kayihura, Kayihura is just a small boy, I don’t know ISO, Bagenda they have now brought in a new person now called Kaka Bagenda. These are all he is changing. We have had so many commanders of the army, the constant insecurity is the head of all of them who changes them that is Mr. Museveni. Mr. Museveni has mismanaged not just the security but the entire country.”
He said Heads of various security agencies are stooges for the President and are only keen to protect the interest of the President. “He organizes the security institutions not to serve the country, to protect the country, to protect its people but to serve him, to protect him and be loyal not to the country but be loyal to him,” Besigye said the elapsing security was due to junior officers appointed to take charge at the expense of professional officers. “He has created a lot of confusion in the forces because he looks, gets a sergeant and he thinks that sergeant is more loyal to him than a general. So he starts dealing with a sergeant and giving the sergeant more facilities and more money, promoting the sergeant and eventually the sergeant becomes on top of those who are more capable.”
Speaking about the economy, Besigye compared it to that of the late Democratic Republic of Congo President Mobuto Seseko. “The economy has collapsed, that’s why you hear now that the government is borrowing money to pay salaries that is what happened to Mobutu before he collapsed. Mobutu had stolen from Congo until he was richer than Congo. Now, the economy of Congo collapsed and at the end before Mobutu collapsed, he was signing personal cheques to pay for his security guards. He would pay them from his bank accounts .that is what is happening now.”
