KAMPALA, Oct. 5, Reuter: Uganda has arrested two government ministers and a former vice President on charges of attempting to cause instability in the country, an official statement said today.
The statement, read on Radio Uganda, said the government had been watching the activities of Energy Minister Andrew Kayiira, Environmental Protection Minister David Lwanga and former vice President Paulo Muwanga, as ‘well as those of other individuals, and had amassed evidence that they were “contributing to activities calculated to cause insecurity.
Other prominent Ugandans arrested into he same operation were Francis Bwengye, an executive committee member of Kayiira Uganda Freedom Movement (UFM), and Anthony Ssekweyama, editor of the Conservative Democratic Party (DP) Newspaper, the government said in its statement.
The UFM, DP and Lwanga’s Federal Democratic Movement (FEDEMO) are partners in the ruling coalition headed by President Yoweri Museveni’s National.
Resistance Movement (NRM) Sources close to Kayiira said security men from Museveni’sNational Resistance army (NRA) had also arrested at least five senior officers from the minister’s Uganda Freedom Army (UFA), including Pakistani Mercenary Sori Sajed, the UFA’s chief training officer.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 10, 1986
