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Museveni: USA sanctions against Kayihura are none of our business 

Mubiru Ivan by Mubiru Ivan
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President Yoweri Museveni has scoffed off at some elements especially from the opposition who are jubilating over the sanctions the USA government imposed on former Uganda Police Chief Gen Kale Kayihura and his family.

Recently, the United States Government issued travel and economic sanctions against Kayihura  and his immediate family members.

They accused him of gross violations of human rights under Section 7031(c) of the FY 2019 Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, according to US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.

However, in a his social media missive issued on Sunday September 22, 2019, President Museveni has said that excitement among some elements of the opposition shows the poor quality of their spectacles when it comes to issues of Africa and Uganda.

“Why do they think that going to the USA or, indeed, any non-African country is so important that if you are not allowed there, it will amount to a painful punishment? I know of no Country that is more beautiful than Uganda on Earth Planet. It is actually a sacrifice for me to visit any non-African country on account of bad weather, strange foods etc,” he said.

“Therefore, to hear leaders of national Political Parties jubilating that a Ugandan is barred from entering the USA is very good news for the NRM because, as always, it will be very easy for us to show the Ugandans and Africans that “they have left undone what they ought to have done and have done what they ought not to have done and there is no truth in them.”

Museveni also revealed that as Uganda it is none of their business regarding they types of approaches foreign government use to run their countries.

“However, for Kale or other Ugandans who are suspected to have made mistakes, they will always be handled in Uganda.  That is why we shall never hand any Ugandan to, for instance, the Court in The Hague- the ICC. Kale is already facing whatever mistakes he is suspected to have committed in our Courts. What value addition is, then, there from external actors? In co-operation in, for instance, Defense matters, some of the Western Countries tried to tell us which soldiers should not be selected for courses in their countries and we rejected that position by stopping all training in those countries.  We built the UPDF by our own means from scratch, based on the genuine sentiments of our People as you can see whenever there is a recruitment exercise. Outsiders can contribute in a manner acceptable to us. Otherwise, we are self- sufficient in capacity building as we have always been.

“What would be disappointing is to hear that Kale had investments in the USA that his children go to see. That would be treason.  Investments in the USA when Uganda needs investments? I do not have and will never have a single investment outside Uganda; possibly, for some sentimental reasons, I could consider investing in Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda etc. – African countries.  However, for non- African Countries: “No”, “Never”. Why? It is the African slave labour during 300 years of slavery, the African resources during the colonial times and the African resources during neo- colonial times that contributed greatly to the prosperity of those countries to the detriment of Africa (How Europe under- developed Africa- Walter Rodney).”


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