Early this week, a Nairobi based website exposed the plan to fake kidnap and persecution allegedly committed by Kigali on Rwandan refugees inside Uganda with the aim of drawing attention of rights group and portraying Rwanda as hostile<\/p>\n
Two days after the Nairobian story, the scheme is unfolding with a Ugandan based online website, Chimpreports becoming the messenger<\/p>\n
In what looked like a planted story, the website reported on Tuesday that some Rwandan refugees were due to petition Uganda\u2019s parliament claiming persecution from Kigali. However, some observers wondered how refugees who have no voting powers would petition parliament instead of UNCHR.<\/p>\n
A day after, the same website claimed that the refuges meant to petition Uganda\u2019s Parliament were \u2018attacked\u201d on the evening before their act in a Kampala suburb called Ntinda. The same story claimed police intervened and rescued the refugees and that the attackers fled off upon seeing Police.<\/p>\n
However, observers say the story leaves more questions than answers. For example, they question the following; \u201chow can criminals escape upon arrival of police and no single shot is fired or effort to hunt them down? Ntinda being a busy suburb of Uganda, why are there no witness accounts to confirm the incident or mention registration numbers of vehicles\/motorcycles the alleged criminals used? A story of attempted kidnap involving rescue by Police is a big story by any measure, why didn\u2019t any mainstream Kampala media pick it up?<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is work of intelligence circles in Kampala,\u201d said a security operative in Kampala. \u201cIts part of the smear campaign aimed at throwing mud on Rwanda.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The story that run early this week in the Nairobian revealed of a plot orchestrated\u00a0by Ugandan intelligence circles targeting ex-Rwandan soldiers to allege \u201cpersecution, kidnapping and espionage\u201d in a bid to paint Rwanda as an \u201caggressive\u201d state.<\/p>\n
The story singled out one, Rugema Kayumba a mobiliser for Kayumba Nyamwasa\u2019s RNC as promoter of the scheme supported by high security and intelligence operatives from CMI in Kampala.<\/p>\n
Rugema, recently relocated from Norway to Uganda to lead this scheme that involves planting lies and getting the attention of human rights groups like HRW and UNHCR to discredit Rwanda.<\/p>\n
Rugema\u00a0\u00a0is working with another fugitive Sande Charles aka Mugisha Robert RNC coordinator in Uganda. It is reported that two have been given escorts from CMI<\/p>\n
When the so-called refugees failed to deliver their petition to Uganda\u2019s parliament on Wednesday, Rugema Kayumba lamented on his facebook page \u201cRwanda refugees were to present their petition to Uganda parliament and Kigali attacked them before they appeared.\u201d<\/p>\n
Surprisingly, it\u2019s the same allegations that were carried in Chimpreports story confirming further that this scheme exists and involves planting stories in different online tabloids.<\/p>\n
The Nairobian quoted highly placed source in Uganda\u2019s intelligence circles saying that the well-crafted scheme seeks to achieve two goals; portray Rwanda as a hostile nation that has infiltrated Uganda and use Rwandans to amplify allegations on human rights violations to capture the attention of different rights groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Nairobian reported last week that Rugema, a Corporal who deserted from RDF is married to a Muhima lady called Peace\u00a0Rugema\u00a0who is engaged cattle trade in Kampala. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Rugema\u00a0is facilitated or works closely with one, Corporal AbdulKarim Mulindwa a.k.a Mukombozi a CMI operative (RA 189654) with close ties to the office of Brig. Abel Kandiho, the head of CMI.<\/p>\n
Sources say, CMI operatives have linked\u00a0Rugema\u00a0to a top human rights lawyer based in Kampala to finalise the dossier on human rights violations and present it to HRW and UNCHR.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rugema\u00a0recently wrote an open letter to Uganda\u2019s President and First alleging all sorts of human rights allegation in a clear move aimed at promoting this narrative against Rwanda. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In what looks like a desperate attempt to spread malicious lies and portray Rwanda as a \u201chostile state,\u201d Rwandan fugitives in Uganda have embarked on fabricating stories and planting them in sections of Uganda\u2019s online media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36400"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36400"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}