In June this year, word went around from security briefing rooms into newsrooms that President Yoweri Museveni’s elite intelligence agencies had detected a secret plan to create a bloodbath and civilian havoc in some part of the country.
The alleged revolution plot was supposed to to kickoff in the last week of June this year particularly in Kasese but security got wind of the whole plan and foiled it then.
It was said how those determined to cause regime change against Museveni allegedly tasked their allies there to ensure that they capture one of the remote districts in Uganda to spark off the planned regime change.
In the plan according to top military sources, Kasese and Gulu districts were therefore zeroed on as the possible places that could be turned into a Benghazi situation and spark off Museveni’s removal.
In the whole arrangement, when opposition kingpin Dr. Kizza Besigye is busy stretching Museveni’s security in Kampala under his defiance campaign, the other people in Kasese or Gulu according to the plan were supposed to hold anti-Museveni demos calling for regime change.
In case security moves in to contain them, some of them will be killed and seek the international community’s intervention like it was done by Libya’s Benghazi city protestors.
To Uganda’s believers of regime change, the Kasese clashes are supposed to be like how Benghazi’s revolt began from a small, peaceful demonstration and exploded into an all-out revolt that then spread through eastern Libya and finally reached Tripoli and eventually Muammar Gaddafi fall.
During the ensuing days, military assaults on militias increased in Kasese as was in Benghazi. Like they had planned police over the events of November 27-28 using violence against these royal guards and local collaborators, shooting at them. Then it devolves into using force, killing people in the streets. And then the general anti-Museveni strike will start.
But the former revolutionary seems to have the situation under control, as always has.
