For quite a while Rwandan President Paul Kagame has continued to accuse neighboring Uganda of arresting and extremely persecuting Rwandans living in Uganda.
Against that backdrop, the RDF Commander in Chief (CiC) issued a stern warning against fellow countrymen wishing to travel to Uganda.
The warning followed closure of Gatuna/Katuna border.
But Ugandan officials including President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni openly blamed Rwanda for dispatching its agents who operated behind the NRM government.
Further, officials in Kampala indicated that Rwandans in custody had cases to answer. Many had been implicated in forceful repatriation of fellow citizens back home.
However, authorities in Kampala had never raised concerns related to harassment of Ugandans in Kigali even when several cases existed.
Today, TrumpetNews brings you the ordeal a Ugandan working in Kigali who was subjected to harrassment after President Museveni called off his trip to Rwanda on March 19, 2018.
Cancellation
President Museveni cancelled his trip to Kigali for the African Continental Free Trade Area Treaty meeting after his advance security team and the Rwandan security failed to work out his itinerary, reported indicated last year.
Advance teams of visiting Presidents are usually sent to the host countries ahead of the visit to check whether the measures put in place can provide sufficient security for their head of state.
They check where the president will stay, the routes and vehicles he will use during the summit period, among others.
Therefore, the refusal by Rwanda’s security agencies to cooperate with Museveni’s advance security team sparked queries about his security in Kigali and his handlers advised him to abort the trip.
Story
A Ugandan who spent five years in Rwanda working for a government body and occupying a high position but later sneaked out of the country has narrated the suffering he went through after Museveni called of his trip.
This Ugandan (names withheld) often met President Kagame due to the nature of his job and he had built confidence in many officials in Kigali establishment.
“Sometimes I would be approached to poach Ugandans with expertise to go to Rwanda. Which I did. And I did my job with one heart,” he said.
Adding that because he knew many people in Kampala when these same people travelled to Rwanda he would meet them for up and about in Kigali.
“I had never thought of spying for Museveni or Kagame. I simply went to look for money,” he said.
But he was dismayed to learn presence of heavy security deployment at his home on a morning after Museveni cancelled his trip.
“I wondered what crime I had committed.”
He adds: “I was picked and taken to safe house of sorts.”
This Ugandan’s crime was his connections with officials in Kampala that he talked to often. And also the other officials in Uganda’s security he had previously talked to as they prepared for the arrival of Museveni in Kigali.
“After questioning I went to work. While at work my office had been ripped apart. They ransacked each and everything.”
What however, surprised him is that he was no longer in charge of his phone.
“At some point I would see my phone operating itself, making calls, checking whatsapp messages and other texts,” he said.
He confesses that Kagame has invested a lot in technology and security.
He began receiving threats and would be trailed all the time.
“I woke up one day and planned on how to sneak out Kigali. And I managed.”
Asked what tricks he used to flee the country, he declined to comment.
He says all the people he had brought to Kigali were subjected to same harassment.
