THE WOES OF FORMER ISO AND CMI COMMANDER HENRY TUMUKUNDE: A FOUR STAR GENERAL WHO IS BEEN ACCUSSED OF TAX EVASION AND TREASON.

I Have Been Arrested But This Will Not Scare Me - Tumukunde Speaks Out On Arrest.

Presidential aspirant Gen. Henry Tumukunde’s home has been surrounded by army officers and he has been arrested.

According to Tumukunde, his home at Impala Avenue in Kololo next to Multi-choice offices was surrounded by army officers before being allegedly arrested.

“Comrades, I have been surrounded by army officers at my private office in Kololo. I have been arrested. This will not stop our resolve,” Tumukunde posted on his Facebook page.

When Contacted UPDF Army spokesperson Brig. Richard Karemire, his phone was not going through. We contacted his deputy Lt. Col. Deo Akiiki who said, “I cannot confirm whether Tumukunde has been arrested because my bosses have not briefed me on the matter.”

We will keep you posted.

By Ssengooba Alirabaki

At 7:30pm, a team of joint security operatives led by the Uganda Police Force (UPF), Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), Joint Anti-Terrorism Unit (JAT), Police Financial Intelligence Unit all commanded by the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP) Grace Akullo stormed Lt. Gen Henry Tumukunde’s private office at Impala Avenue in Kololo and arrested him.

Henry Muwonge, one of the assistants to Tumukunde, who was with him at the time of his arrest narrated that his boss will likely face treason charges. Muwonge explained that Akullo told Tumukunde that he was going to be taken to Kibuli CID headquarters for questioning.

WHY GEN TUMUKUNDE ARRESTED.

Multiple sources last week said that two months back, president Museveni instructed the Internal Security Organization (ISO) Commandant Col. Frank Bagyenda Kaka, Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) chief Brig. Gen. Abel Kandiho and detectives from the SFC to investigate allegations that Gen. Tumukunde has been involved in tax evasion and treasonous activities. Credible Sources confirmed to this website that last month, intelligence agencies submitted their final investigation intelligence reports to the Commander in Chief (CiC) for action.

PRESIDENT MUSEVENI BITTER.

Upon receiving the reports from the investigative officers, Museveni read the content and he was very bitter and swore to arrest Tumukunde.

Someone in State House tipped off the first lady that intelligence units had submitted their final reports on Tumukunde to the president and he was bitter.

She quickly talked to Salim Saleh to intervene and try to calm down the already angry Museveni.

Saleh pleaded with the president not to arrest Tumukunde because he is a close family member who knows the deepest secrets of the family and once squeezed can expose them.  Saleh further told the president that Tumukunde is just a frustrated, hungry man who thinks that he was used to fight Kayihura and Mbabazi and finally dumped.

Saleh told the president that Tumukunde had very many loans and banks were breathing down his neck. He further told the president that banks are threatening to take his house at Impala Avenue in Kololo.

The president told Saleh that Tumukunde is free to do and say whatever he wants but he is determined to arrest him.

TAX EVASION.

Sources further revealed that investigators established that Lt. Gen. Tumukunde has been using his status has a General in UPDF to evade paying taxes. Sources also revealed that Tumukunde has been in the labour export business, land dealing and real estate. In all these different business ventures, Tumukunde has been partnering with some first family members who assisted the investigators to unearth Tumukunde’s ‘deep’ deals.

TREASON CHARGES.

Military intelligence also said that, the investigators also establish that when Tumukunde was a security minister, he used his status as a minister to carryout activities which were deemed to be hostile to the sitting government. It was established that Tumukunde moved around the country at night meeting and talking to different intelligent officers from village level. Sources revealed that Tumukunde talked to Parish Intelligence Officers (PISO), Village Intelligence Officers (VISO) and District Internal Security Officers (DISO) and others without the authorization of his boss the CiC and he did not even brief him after. Investigators also established that after these meetings, Tumukunde never submitted any recorded minutes to put these meeting on record.

We have also established that most of the intelligence officers who Tumukunde met have already been rounded off and are prepared to testify against him.

MEDIA CENTRE CHIEF OFWONO OPONDO WEIGH IN.

While appearing on NBS TV frontline political show today evening, Ofwono Opondo, the Media Centre boss said that during his media interviews on various televisions, Tumukunde has been uttering many careless statements which need to be questioned by security.

Some of these statements include asking a foreign government to attack Uganda and bragging that he has 1000 tricks to change government. Ofwono said that Tumukunde has to explain to security each of those tricks before he is let off the hook.

A verbal war has erupted between President Museveni’s top advisers Tamale Mirundi and Haji Nasser Ntege Ssebaggala.

Mirundi is the senior presidential adviser on media and Hajji Ssebaggala is also a senior presidential adviser on political issues.

It all started last week when Hajji Ssebaggala alias Seya was asked if he knows his State House workmate Mirundi. In affirmation, Seya said that he knows Mirundi very well because he supported him financially including paying his tuition.

In a phone chat with the Grapevine, Ssebaggala boasted that he has been helping a number of people including Mirundi. “Ask Mirundi when you are two, he will tell you that I helped him a lot, it’s not a lie that I paid his tuition its true,” Ssebaggala insisted. The former Kampala Mayor further revealed that other big people he helped include DP Block boss Mike Mabikke who he knows cannot disown him like Mirundi.

However, when contacted, a furious Mirundi wondered why the likes of Ssebaggala are jumping on his success.

“Let me tell you, I have been a rich man since my childhood. Why are idiots jumping on me, I will abuse those fools? The other time it was that man Tumukunde (Gen. Henry Tumukunde) telling lies that he helped me. How? They found me rich already,” a furious Mirundi said.

He said that both Ssebaggala and Tumukunde have failed to admit that he is a very vocal person who is listened to by millions of Ugandans and because of such influence he has on several occasions helped them to overcome hard situations.

Mirundi gave an example that during the time when Tumukunde was fighting terrorists, he relied on Mirundi’s advice and it helped him avoid making costly mistakes.

On Seya, Mirundi said that he gave him good advice that helped him put Museveni on political tension to the extent of ordering security agencies to fire live bullets at his car in Mbarara. Mirundi warned that if both Ssebaggala and Tumukunde don’t stop attacking him, he will expose them in public like he did to Kobuseera, Walutwetwe and King Sultan.