Fiery former army commander Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu has spilled history of mistrust during the bush war which ushered NRM/A to power.
Muntu revealed the secret on Thursday while clarifying on the claims that have long been peddled by his colleagues in the opposition party FDC- that he covertly works for the regime.
On Tuesday after he announced that he was leaving FDC which he joined in 2004, the barrage of accusations resurfaced on social media and other several media outlets engineered by FDC officials who said Gen. Muntu has fulfilled his assignment of spying on them reason he was quitting.
The same members further alleged that Muntu had surreptitiously met President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni shortly after the 2016 elections to discuss how to disintegrate FDC and subsequently preside over its collapse before 2021 elections.
Justifying their assertions, they quoted President Museveni saying there will be no opposition in 2021.
But Muntu dispelled this as “usual talk” of disgruntled FDC members.
He challenged them stating the last time he met Museveni face to face as 2004 at Nakasero State House after the Mbale meeting with other several colleagues of PAFO.
“That is the last time I met him. Many other times we meet on functions or burials and I see him from a distance,” Muntu said.
He vehemently maintained that “integrity” has been a central value of his existence as a human being.
“When we meet and agree and I will tell you, when we disagree I will also tell you,” said the former army chief.
He prophesied that only time will tell who the real moles are in FDC.
His revelations aroused thunderous applause from the audience.
Bush War
Muntu then spilled secrets how he was subjected to surveillance by his commander during the bush war until they discovered he was very genuine.
“Because of my background, my father was very close to a government of Milton Obote that we were fighting. Therefore it was very hard for many to believe that I would take up arms and fight the same government.
It was put under surveillance but I didn’t know. It is until the war had ended when these commanders told me. And that is how I was appointed army commander,” Muntu said.
