Security in Uganda is on high alert following intelligence reports that the former coordinator of intelligence services and now exiled Gen David Sejusa might be behind the Juba recent coup attempt in S. Sudan that was foiled Gen Salva Kiir, and is plotting to come after President Yoweri Museveni next, we have exclusively and reliably been informed.
Intelligence sources from South Sudan revealed to us that Gen Sejusa has been in secret talks with former Vice President of Southern Sudan Riek Machar for a long time.
“Information which we have so obtained indicates that the pair has been holding talks since Kiir fired Machar from the post of Vice President,” said a reliable security source. The source further revealed to us that ever since he was fired, he has rarely been long in the country, spending a lot of his time outside.
“All his telephone contacts showed that he has been in London and UK where Gen Sejusa is reportedly hiding,” added another source that declined to be named for security reasons.
Security now believes that after the pair met, they agreed to helping one another achieve their respective political and military targets. Reliable intelligence sources added that Gen Sejusa accepted to help Machar to topple out Kiir Government which has been in power for only two years.
Sources added that Gen Sejusa, whose job as Intelligence coordinator in Uganda would have given him considerable influence and contacts of both Ugandan and other spies in the region, has a big network of informers in S. Sudan who are now being used to feed security information to Machar’s troops which are now battling Kiir government.
On his part, it is alleged that Machar assured Gen Sejusa that after taking over Southern Sudan, he would avail him and his forces help to remove President Museveni from power. It is now feared that Gen. Sejusa plans to set up a rebel group to war against the M7 regime and that he plans to set up base in S. Sudan
“After removing Kiir, I will give you the straight way to remove President Museveni,” a source close to the pair quotes Machar as saying.
Machar calls on army to topple Kiir
In a related development, South Sudan’s former vice-president Riek Machar has called on the army to overthrow President Salva Kiir, according to French broadcaster, Radio France International. Speaking to RFI from an undisclosed location, Machar reportedly slammed Kiir as a dictator who is tearing the country apart.
“I appeal to the SPLM and the SPLA to remove Salva Kiir from the leadership of the country,” Machar said on Thursday. “He is tearing it apart and it is the right of the people, using their vanguard, which is the SPLM party and the SPLA, to remove someone who wants to make himself a dictator and somebody who mismanages issues of the state.”
Earlier this week Kiir announced that he had defeated an attempted coup, closing borders and imposing a dusk-to-dawn curfew until further notice.
Hundreds have been killed since then in battles between Dinka soldiers loyal to President Salva Kiir and Nuers supporting Machar.
But Machar told RFI that the president is creating ethnic divisions.
“It is my responsibility, as well as the responsibility of others, to unite our people, all the ethnic groups in South Sudan – there are 65 of them,” he said. “There is no enmity between the Nuer and the Dinka … It is just the leadership, we have got the wrong leadership, that wants to in our new state ethnic tension for no reason.”
Machar’s comments came as three Indian peacekeepers were killed in in Jonglei state when attackers stormed a UN base where civilians had taken refuge.
The UN says it lost contact with the base at Akobo and the fate of more than 30 ethnic-Dinka civilians sheltering there remains unknown.
UPDF deploys heavily at border
Meanwhile our security sources have told us that UPDF has heavily deployed troops at the Uganda-Sudan border to make sure that no enemy enters the Country.
When we contacted UPDF mouthpiece Lt Col Paddy Ankuda he said that the heavy deployment at the border was to make sure that there s peace is secure.
However, he denied the reports that the UPDF sent troops to war-torn Southern Sudan.
“UPDF has not sent any troop to Southern Sudan, and who ever says it has is telling a lie,” said Ankunda when contacted on phone.
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