{"id":21271,"date":"2015-11-20T08:04:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T08:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/museveni-answers-mbabazi-on-mayombo\/"},"modified":"2015-11-20T08:03:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T08:03:28","slug":"museveni-answers-mbabazi-on-mayombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/museveni-answers-mbabazi-on-mayombo\/","title":{"rendered":"Museveni answers Mbabazi on Mayombo"},"content":{"rendered":"

{President Museveni has said government could make public the report about the death of Brigadier Noble Mayombo, the former Defence permanent secretary.}<\/p>\n

Mr Museveni said the report is available and had been shared with the family of Mr Mayombo, who once served as his aide\u2013de\u2013camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am sure his [Mayombo\u2019s] family got the report. His father (Rev James Rwabwoni) was still alive. I remember I discussed it with him. I know what the problem was; it was a natural problem. I can talk to his family. If they want us to publish it, we can publish it. The report is there,\u201d said Mr Museveni yesterday during a press conference at Arua State Lodge.<\/p>\n

If Mayombo died of natural causes, it negates claims that he was killed by some people as the President hinted during the 2007 burial of Mayombo who also once headed the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI).<\/p>\n

\u201cOur security services have been looking at criminally-minded characters in the region, who have been saying that by eliminating NRM cadres, they would finish the NRM. Mayombo\u2019s name was high on that list and, of course, also Museveni\u2019s, as the head,\u201d the President said then. He had also indicated at the funeral that Mayombo could have died of a condition he did not manage well.<\/p>\n

Mr Museveni\u2019s remarks came as a response to a question by a journalist who asked the President to comment on the denial by Independent presidential candidate Amama Mbabazi that he had no role in the death of Mayombo and challenged the government to release the soldier\u2019s death report.<\/p>\n

Speaking in FortPortal on Wednesday, Mr Mbabazi, who was Security minister in 2007, said it was \u201cSatan\u201d spreading the \u201cwhispering rumour\u201d linking him to Mayombo\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Responding to concerns about the inquiry report about the death of Mayombo, Mr Museveni said if the family wishes, the government could make the report public. The late Mayombo\u2019s brother Okwir Rwabwoni, said he was in a meeting \u2013 so couldn\u2019t comment.<\/p>\n

At the same media briefing, President Museveni reiterated that he will not be \u2018intimidated\u2019 to hand over power to people who have no mission for Uganda. Mr Museveni claimed some of the people now contesting for the presidency were after personal interests. \u201cI cannot abandon Uganda unless the people of Uganda say \u2018okay, we don\u2019t need your mission\u2019. Then I will be relieved,\u201d Mr Museveni said.<\/p>\n

The President said should he be re-elected in 2016 and his term expires (in 2021), he will respect the Constitution and retire. There are claims by the Opposition that NRM, which enjoys a 67 per cent majority in the legislature, could lift the 75-age limit from the Constitution. The NRM has time and again denied this claim.<\/p>\n

However, given that Mr Museveni has gone back on his written word in 2001 not to contest again for the presidency in subsequent elections, critics say it wouldn\u2019t be beyond his party MPs to amend the article on age. The last time they did it, in 2005, each MP was allegedly given Shs5 million.<\/p>\n

By Felix Warom Okelo, Clement Aluma & Risdel Kasasira<\/p>\n

THE BACKGROUND
\nAt Mayombo\u2019s burial in Kabarole District, President Museveni stoked suspicion when he said Mayombo, who he said was one of the National Resistance Movement cadres, like the Inspector General of Police, Maj Gen Kale Kayihura, had been a target for elimination.<\/p>\n

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DAILY MONITOR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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