Police Chief Gen Kale Kayihura has said that he has no issues with security minister Lt Gen Henry Tumukunde as reported earlier in media.
Adding that the two are not on the same level and therefore they can’t clash.
Kayihura was speaking in an interview with a local TV NBS about the recent ‘shockwaves’ in the police establishment where senior officers were arrested by a sister security organ and charged in an army court.
The IGP said those prophesying a rift between the two high ranking military officials were “trying to whip up a storm in a tea cup.”
“What is a rift? From my point of view I don’t have any problems with Honourable Tumukunde. I respect him and I know his role as minister of Security.”
He said as the head of police he sticks to his mandate which is to ensure that law and order are kept.
He wondered how he disagrees with a minister, “I am at the operational; level. He is high up there. However wants to make this an issue, i don’t know what their intention is.”
Kayihura in the same interview denied having a close relationship with the jailed senior officers who are accused of kidnapping Lt Joel Mutabazi, a former body guard of President Paul Kagame.
Nixon Agasiirwe, the former head of a special operations unit and Joel Aguma the commandant of the Professional Standards Unit (PSU) were arrested last week and arraigned before the General Court Martial on October 27.
They were charged with the kidnap of Lt Joel Mutabazi, a former bodyguard of President Paul Kagame.
The two are said to be close confidantes of Kayihura.
But speaking publicly for the for the first time about the saga, Kayihura said that his relationship with any police officer is based on their performance not any special consideration.
“There is no body close to me in a special way. I am the inspector General of Police of all police officers. I don’t know where this idea that I have got a special clique came from. My relationship with any officer is based on work. If you are performing very well you will get my attention. If you are not doing well, my attention towards you will be limited except from a disciplinary point of view,” he said.
He said Nixon did not head any special unit as reported in the media.
