Phillip Ankunda, 2nd lieutenant commissioned in March as the pilot of the AirForce wing is in Military detention on allegations of spying for Rwanda.
Highly placed security sources revealed to us last night that Ankunda, popularly known as PN Ankunda on social media was picked by operatives from the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) early May and first detained him at Mbuya after intelligence suggested he was working for Rwanda.
According to a separate security official, PN Ankunda was arrested together with two of his colleagues working in Uganda Police.
The trio has since been transferred and is to currently being detained at Special Investigation Division (SID), a dreaded security facility in Kireka, Kampala used by both the Police and the Military.
“However, they are held in different cells to deter them from making coordinated statements,” a source.
This website is establishing details of the other two cops in detention.
TrumpetNews has further ascertained that security had placed Ankunda and his girlfriend who hails from Rwanda on radar, monitoring their phone conversation and contacts.
A highly ranked UPDF official who asked to remain unnamed said, Rwanda was picking information from Uganda through Ankunda’s girlfriend.
“The girlfriend is apparently pregnant and he is being monitored. She is somewhere,” said the official who declined to divulge more details about her.
PN Ankunda has been very active on social media particularly Facebook and would be seen making very controversial statements on Rwanda prompting his followers to predict that his arrest was imminent.
As a military officer occupying a sensitive position, he was overblowing his cover by revealing his lifestyle on Facebook, an observer commented.
UPDF spokesperson Brig Richard Karemire when contacted about Ankunda’s arrest said he will get back to us.
However, by the time of filing this report he hadn’t.
While at SID Kireka, Ankunda and his colleagues have not been able to access legal services and have since asked the Military leadership to consider trying them in the Military Court if they have a case to answer.
“But they maintain they are innocent and they distanced themselves from the allegations leveled against them,” said a source.
This website is closely following up this matter and will publish more details.
Until todate the security apparatus in Uganda continues to crackdown on some of its agents who are suspected to have been collaborating with Rwanda to unleash terror on Ugandans.
A few military officials were arrested but a huge section of the collaborators was from Uganda Police at a time General Kale Kayihura was the IGP.
The rouge cops were arrested, some are still in detention and while others were bailed out.
Further, Uganda sometime back allowed to release and immediately repatriate Rwandan criminals arrested on Uganda soil.
Last year President Yoweri Museveni confessed that Rwanda government was operating to distablise the NRM regime. But he strongly warned that those attempting to…”were lying themselves.”
