What if a foreign hand is behind kidnaps, murders

What you need to know:

Introduced. A staff at the British Embassy in Kigali introduced me to the Military Attaché at one of those embassy social events. ‘Meet Mr Asuman Bisiika, he is not a particularly nice guy, but you may end up liking him’.

I went to Khartoum. I met some fellow who was a diplomatic staff at the Sudanese Embassy in Kampala at what he called ‘the wrong time’.
This was the time when President Museveni accused the Government of Sudan of supporting armed rebels fighting to overthrow his government in Kampala.

And Gen Omar al-Bashir accused the Government of Uganda of supporting rebels fighting to overthrow his government in Khartoum. In fact, Uganda accused the Sudanese Embassy of running and managing terror cells in Kampala.
One day, the Government of Uganda thought they had enough actionable intelligence to take action against what they called subversive activities of the Sudanese Embassy in Kampala. Uganda’s intelligence services raided the Sudanese Embassy in Kampala; mbu there were guns on the premises of the Sudanese Embassy in Kampala.

Unfortunately, they harvested none. All the guns the Ugandan intelligence services found at the premises of the Sudanese Embassy in Kampala were known and registered with authorities of the Government of Uganda. Duh!
As is common in these things, Khartoum retaliated. The Government of Sudan closed Uganda’s Embassy in Khartoum and withdrew diplomatic immunity from Uganda’s diplomatic staff. And oh yes, Uganda’s diplomatic staff were even assaulted (yes, physical assault) and treated like common thieves in Khartoum.
At the end of this incident, diplomatic relations between Uganda and Sudan were severed. It was a textbook case of a ‘diplomatic incident’.

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Graeme Loten had been British Ambassador to The Sudan; and before that, the British Ambassador to Kazakhstan (or one of those former USSR ‘stans’). Needless to say, Loten was familiar with The Sudan and her relationship with Uganda.
But now Loten was now the British Ambassador in Kigali. A very nice guy, Loten had the grace to always put up with my unannounced visits to his office. And before he left for his next tour of duty as the British Ambassador to Mali, Loten introduce me to Susan Hogwood, the lady who replaced him as the British Ambassador to Rwanda.
But even with a fully fledged embassy, some aspects of the British Embassy in Kigali were still managed by the British Embassy in Kampala and (or) Nairobi.

For instance, the Military Attaché at British Embassy in Kampala was responsible for military-related issues between Rwanda and Britain. And I think Rwandans either had to go to Kampala or Nairobi to get British Visas.
A staff at the British Embassy in Kigali introduced me to the Military Attaché at one of those embassy social events. ‘Meet Mr Asuman Bisiika, he is not a particularly nice guy, but you may end up liking him’. We laughed good naturedly.

On his next visit to Kigali, Mr Military Attaché looked me up. We had lunch and talked. We talked about many things, but what impressed me (actually scared me), was his detailed knowledge of that diplomatic incident in Kampala that led to the severing of diplomatic relations between Uganda and Sudan.

‘That action (in Kampala) endangered the lives of the Uganda Embassy staff in Khartoum’, he declared. I agreed and told him about how a one Kabuye (who was now serving at Uganda’s Embassy in Kigali) survived physical assault in Khartoum.
Now, let me ask like a fala…; please don’t abuse me. What if ‘we’ find out that there is a foreign hand behind the unsettling cases of kidnap (and consequent murders) in the country? Yes, what if the intelligence of a foreign country is playing games on Uganda?

These questions may lack the hypothetical loci standi to justify an interrogative inquiry (or even debate), but…