By Our Online Team

27^th June 2011:

The arrested FDC Bushenyi Chairman William Mukaira

Reports flying around on the internet that are yet to be confirmed by this newspaper suggest that the government may have offered one of the suspects who are being held in connection with the mysterious death of Col. Edison Muzoora [RIP] up to 3billion Shillings to concoct damning evidence that the State can use to pin President Museveni’s biggest political challenger Dr. Kizza Besigye.

Security agents last week arrested the Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] Chairman for Bushenyi District Mr. William Mukaira and Dr Aggrey Byamaka, an FDC official and Pharmacist who plies his trade in Mbarara-Western Uganda over the death of Muzoora.  Also arrested was Mr. Abel Kacwano, an FDC official who had previously been linked to the shadowy People’s Redemption Army [PRA] rebels; a claim that he vehemently denied.

Others arrested in connection with Muzoora’s death include Mr Obed Musinguzi alias Ssebagala, a former FDC candidate in the Bushenyi local council elections and M/s Grace Twinomujuni, a nurse who works at the arrested FDC Bushenyi Chairman William Mukaira’s Valley College in Bushenyi district.

Plan to charge Besigye with treason sealed

According to the report, the government’s intelligence Chiefs allegedly met the arrested Mbarara Pharmacist Dr. Aggrey Byamaka at a secret Safe House and offered him 3billion Shillings so that he can literally “lie” in court that he had met and treated the late Muzoora and that Muzoora had told him [before his death] that he returned to Uganda to overthrow President Museveni’s government with “…Kizza Besigye’s blessings”.

The country’s top security Chiefs who allegedly met Dr. Aggrey Byamaka at the secret Safe House were the Coordinator of Intelligence and Security Agencies Gen. David Tinyefunza and Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence Chief Brigadier James Mugira.  Dr. Byamaka, the report says, “…refused the offer before he was returned to the police in Mbarara”.

Following Dr. Byamaka’s refusal to cooperate, the report says, a top level meeting then took place at State House on Wednesday last week at which a decision was taken to give the Director of Public Prosecutions [DPP] the “…go ahead to charge these people and Besigye with treason”.

Tinyefunza wants suspects charged with treason

As it happens, the Sunday Monitor reported yesterday [see: ‘Charge Muzoora suspects with treason’] that Gen. David had said that, “…if credible evidence is found against the people arrested in the ongoing investigations about the death of Col. Edison Muzoora, [then] they stand to be charged with treason”.

As if to add full credence to the credibility of the source who alleged on the internet that Dr. Byamaka had refused to accept the 3billion Shilling inducement to lie in court, Gen. Tinyefunza was also reported to have expressed his frustration at the suspects’ refusal to “cooperate” with security operatives investigating Muzoora’s death.

“…What is more disturbing is the way those who have been arrested are not willing to cooperate with security in their investigations…this could be done to protect a high profiled opposition politician.  The issue of interest is why are those old people like [William] Mukaira, his wife, including doctors and other people whom I will not talk about now all willing to hide such a dangerous thing of a rebel dying in their house”, Tinyefuza wondered.

Gen. Tinyefuza also told Sunday Monitor that the act of hiding a rebel is an indication of “collaboration” and wondered what those arrested were doing with a rebel in their midst. “…Instead of asking whether they killed their fellow rebel, they should be charged with treason as the question of death is secondary”, the moustached General said.

Tinyefunza also denied government involvement in Col. Muzoora’s death.  Reacting to Tinyefunza’s denial however, a top opposition official cryptically asked:  “…Do you think I would come and admit in your face that I have slept with your wife if I had actually done it?”.  END.  Please login to www.ugandacorrespondent.com every Monday to read our top stories and anytime mid-week for our news updates.