Opposition faces harder times after Chogm, Queen’s visit

Mzee’s contention was that Mafabi who also chairs the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament that is calling for cancellation of the land titles given to people who acquired the Butabika Hospital land illegally. But it appears the President’s grievances with Mafabi stretch beyond the Butabika land issue. Grapevine has received information that for some time now, the President has been vainly trying to lure Mafabi to NRM.

This man from the land of Imbalu (circumcision), has been promised big things if he denounces Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) and accepts to work with Mzee but he has refused. At least up to now. “I am not desperate to be bought. I can look after my family well but if they want me, then they should first learn how to manage public affairs well,� Mafabi told Grapevine. Sources say Mzee used several emissaries, including VP Prof. “Mahogany� Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya but Mafabi snubbed them.

Prof. “Mahogany� reportedly promised Mafabi that he would become a strong species like a Mvule tree in NRM but Mafabi declined to acquire the botanical name.
So Mafabi ‘the lost case’ refused to be lost in NRM and Mzee is wondering why.

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ISO, ESO spies sacked

In Uganda, being a spy is a very enjoyable job because one can do anything- from - framing suspects, torturing them to even liquidating them. But this job also has its downside, especially when you are sacked.

So far, one former DP activist who crossed to Mzee Museveni’s camp and was deployed as spy, one Joseph Luzige, is now jobless. He is not alone.Grapevine has learnt that nearly 100 operatives, especially those working in ISO and ESO have been knifed.
However, Grapevine operatives deployed there have survived and now they report that recently, DISOs and Assistant DISOs were summoned to Kampala for reassessment. Some of them are to be sacked. Reason?

Senior spies not happy
That most of them are opposition sympathisers. But the sacking has not pleased senior spies in the President’s Office. “Why employ a man like Luzige from DP then sack him?
He has been with us and he has not left with an empty head; he now knows a lot about us,� a senior spy lamented before Grapevine. He said luring opposition members to State House and then sack them, sends a wrong message and also exposes State House.