State House: Museveni has not replied Kadaga's House raid letter
KAMAPALA.
A letter said to be President Museveni’s explanation for eviction of 25 Members of Parliament (MPs) from Parliament on September 27 is fake.
Mr Don Wanyama, the Senior Press Secretary to the President, said the public should, therefore, disregard it.
“Whereas it is true the President received the Speaker’s letter, he has not yet responded to it,” Mr Wanyama said on Saturday, November 4 in response to the Monitor’s query.
On 23 October, the Speaker of Parliament, Ms Rebecca Kadaga, who, it seems, in reflection, regrets the undignified eviction of the MPs, wrote to President Museveni.
She asked Mr Museveni to identify the “unsolicited forces” that raided the Chamber to eject the MPs Ms Kadaga had suspended from three sittings for unruly conduct.
The ‘unruly’ MPs were protesting the Ms Kadaga’s decision to consider Igara West Raphael Magyezi’s inclusion ahead of others before him, on the Order Paper to seek leave of the House to draft a Private Member’s Bill to amend the Constitution.
Additionally, from Mr Museveni, Ms Kadaga asked for who commanded the forces and what their mission and purpose was.
It is against this background that some ‘crafty’ person purporting to be Mr Museveni ‘replied’ Ms Kadaga’s letter.
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The fake letter was at the time of writing this still being shared by, among other persons, the Forum for Democratic Change’s 2016 presidential election candidate Kizza Besigye, on social networking site Twitter.
The letter, dated Friday, November 3, with a State House address, claims it is Ms Kadaga who had two days before the raid on Parliament requested the Commander-in-Chief, Mr Museveni, to ensure the House’s proceedings on that day are not interrupted.
To that end, an informal meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) was reportedly convened to discuss a deployment plan, tactical units, command, formations and exit strategy.
NSC, according to The National Security Council Act, 2000 is an advisory body to the President on matters relating to national security.
It is composed of the President, the Vice President, the Internal Affairs, Security, Defence, Finance ministers and the Attorney General.
The ex officio members of the council are the Inspector General of Police, the Army Commander, the directors general of the Internal Security and the External Security Organisations, the directors of Special Branch and the Criminal Investigations Department.
Though ‘fake letter’ suggests Ms Kadaga attended the NSC meeting, which if it did take place, was between September 25 and September 27, it is clear from the NSC Act that she is not part of the members of the NSC.
