Internal Affairs Senior Minister Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire has confirmed that President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has picked interest in and directed him to lead investigations into allegations that there is a group of people including police officers involved in and facilitating human trafficking of desperate Ugandans.

Otafiire revealed that investigations will be expanded not only to police officers but other Ugandans especially politicians since preliminary investigation have shown that they are the biggest beneficiaries from the vice.

Highly placed Security sources told theGrapevine that Museveni was briefed that a number of people connive with police officers who fake their arrests, undress and handcuff them and place them in police cells where they take their photos and record them on video crying for help.

This is presented as evidence of torture from Museveni’s government because of their support for the opposition.

Sources divulged that police officers not only stop at faking arrests and detention, they also fake police references and police bond papers showing that the said person has pending criminal charges in Uganda.

After getting police support, the said Ugandans connive with the opposition political parties especially National Unity Platform (NUP) who give them recommendation letters after paying some money which they use as evidence when they are applying for visas and other travel documents to go and seek political asylum in European countries, America and Canada among others.

Museveni was briefed that currently, Uganda is one of the leading countries when it comes to people asking for asylum based on hostile politics back home.

“The situation these police officers created in connivance with asylum seekers placed President Museveni’s government in bad light because it shows that Ugandans are not happy with his leadership and he is using a high hand to lead them,” a source said.

Maj. Gen. Otafiire also confirmed that human trafficking of Ugandans gives Uganda a bad name on the international scene and it is going to become very difficult for serious Ugandans who want to travel abroad for education, medication, research to be given documents to travel in those countries because of fears that they will disappear in those countries.

During the briefing, Museveni was given a detailed report narrating how former CBS radio presenter and comedian Patrick Mujuuka connived with police officers to get documents he used to secure a visa that helped him to go to the United States of America.

Sources claim that Museveni was told that Mujuuka alleged that his life was in danger because Museveni’s government wanted to finish him for being a staunch supporter who uses his radio position to promote National Unity Platform (NUP) and former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine).

“The explanation and documents helped him to get an interim stay in the United States and he is getting good money through doing a number of jobs,” a source said.

However, other sources at CBS radio said that Mujuuka decided to run to the United States because his job at CBS was threatened so he had to plan early before being fired permanently.

The issue of trafficking Ugandans comes at a time when former NUP Chief moblizer Sulaiman Kidandala is holed up in South Korea facing charges of trafficking Ugandans into South Korea.

If convicted, he is likely to be sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.

There is also a group of concerned citizens who petitioned the Canadian Premier Justine Trudeau to review the application filed by Ugandans who seek asylum based on political persecution claiming that many of the applications were based on false grounds.

Senior presidential advisor on media Joseph Tamale Mirundi also twisted the issue of human trafficking revealing that majority of Ugandans taken for greener pastures are sold to business people in different countries so that their internal organs are harvested and sold at a high price.

He revealed that Museveni is also investigating allegations that powerful people in his government in involved.

He explained that Museveni is going to be very tough on people who are trafficking Ugandans because for the last one year, he is on the drive of cleaning his name.

Such allegations have resulted into sanctioning of top government officials by United States, Canada, United Kingdom and other European countries.

Minister Otafiire said that the long arm of the law will catch any one involved in human trafficking of Ugandans and police officers will be expelled from the force with disgrace.

However, shadow foreign affairs Minister Muwada Nkunyingi rubbished Otafiire’s allegation that NUP is involved in human trafficking. He threatened that very soon, he will table on the floor of parliament the names of powerful government officials involved in the said crime.

He further explained that those government officials hide under labour exporting companies to traffic Ugandans and sell them into slavery abroad.

Ronald Muwenda Mutebi the Kabaka of Buganda recently warned youths to be very careful with people who entice them with ideas of going abroad to work.

The King warned that some of these people harbor bad intentions against them because they are only looking at how they can financially benefit from them.

By Sengooba Alirabaki

Men in Kiruhura district and the entire Ankole Sub Region are panicking and pleading with their girls of the soil not to resort to witchcraft as medicine to tame their partners’ sexual appetite.

The vice which can lead to sexually transmitted infections and diseases like cancer in men resulted from a phone audio recording where one of the girls of the soil who is married to a top junior minister in president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s government was discussing with her mother on how to execute the advice from the witch doctor to feed the minister with her pubic hair and nails.

In the recording, the soft spoken young lady was heard briefing her mother in Runyankole language on her recent travel to Iganga in Busoga where she went to see the witch doctor who gave her medicine to work on his man who she branded as a womanizer.

In the phone call, the woman revealed that her journey to Iganga kicked off early in the morning and she was driven in a posh car by a close relative who picked her at Lugongo, a long Kampala-Jinja road.

“Mummy the journey was tiresome but it seems that man works because immediately when I entered his shrine, he explained to me all my personal details from my childhood and why I was before him,” the minister’s wife narrated as mother assured her of how powerful the witchdoctor is.

She further revealed to mother how she paniced when the witch doctor directed her to remove all her clothes. She narrated that thought that he was going to rape her because they were only two in the shrine, but she accepted because she needed his services.

The minister’s wife further narrated that dressed in backcloths, the witch doctor started checking in his old polythene bags.

He removed some voodoo things and tied them in small clothes after mixing them with his saliva. He picked a razor blade and he started making small cutting on her body while smearing the voodoo mixer on the wounds ritualistically.

Surprisingly, her private parts were not also spared.

“I feel a lot of itching when the herbs mixed with the blood inside my body and he told me to be strong because we had just started the rituals. He also told me that the war is not easy because the man has also gagged himself spiritually,” she said.

She further explained that he performed other rituals on her and gave her some herbs to swallow. After, she told her to give him Shs500 shillings so that he can buy a new razor blade.

She narrated that because she did not have any money on her, she moved out of the shrine and picked the money from her relative who was seated in the car.

Upon returning to the shrine, the witch doctor insisted that the money should be hers because the rituals he was performing were for her.

She remained in the shrine naked, until the witch doctor come back, gave her a razor blade and directed her to cut her pubic hair and nails and after give them to him.

As she was performing the rite (of cutting the pubs and nails), the witchdoctor moved out and came back to the shrine with burning charcoal. He asked her for the pubic hair and nails and started burning them together.

After, he collected the ashes, put them in a cloth and directed her to put on her clothes. He them gave the ashes to her and directed her to make sure that she mixes them in the minister’s food and drinks before going to work and do the same thing when he comes back in the evening.

“He is done, I’m telling you mummy,” she boasted on the phone.

In 2021 the minister was introduced to his wife’s parents in Kiruhura but they later had a misunderstanding after she got information that he had other women with children including two who dragged him to police and court for neglecting them.

He used his influence in government to strangle the cases but he learnt his lesson and he is now taking care of them.

The Minister’s wife feels his marriage is threatened because of the many mistresses he has and he always travels with one of them whenever he travels abroad.

The official wife and her mother were badly condemned on different WhatsApp groups for resorting to witchcraft yet their family is a known religious family in the area.

The mother always prayed to God to help her daughter so that the rituals work which kept people were wondering why she didn’t advise her daughter to pray to God instead of going into witchcraft.

However, the wife’s friend who is also a wife to a top officer in the ministry of defense, blasted them and praised the old woman for helping her daughter fight to save her marriage.

She blasted one of the woman who is alleged to be a mistress to a top official at the NRM Secretariat who hired IT experts to hack and tap the minister’s wife’s phone and she is the one who is circulating the controversial audio conversation on different WhatsApp groups.

“That mistress will pay for it I’m telling you. She was a mistress to the minister, he left her and moved in with another woman because she was playing him with that NRM top boss. She still wanted to play the minister with other UPDF Generals and wanted to fail my friend’s marriage. You people, everyone here has privacy and people are doing more deadly and dangerous things to protect their marriages so stop attacking her,” she said.

She further revealed that the said mistresses also hacked into the phone of another top boss in NRM. She rallied her colleagues to gang up and deal seriously with her to save other people’s marriages.

She also disclosed that the NRM top boss has over 27 girlfriends and 10 of them have kids yet the official wife resides in Makindye Division a Kampala suburb.

theGrapevine has established that since the audio went viral, the minister is very confused and his relatives who objected to his marriage to the bewitching woman because she is not his tribes mate are advising him to divorce her.

Others are comforting him that such things always happen in marriage and he should deal with it like a real man.

The youthful minister according to sources is under pressure to take a strong decision which is likely to affect his political career because he married the Munyankole woman to be connected to members of the deep state from Ankole Sub Region.

“I do not think he will leave the woman, she is very connected and he always uses her to score political goals including getting connections and deals from members of the first family,” a friend to a minister told theGrapevine.

By Sengooba Alirabaki

Controversial City Pastor Solomon Moses Male is panicking after Justice John Eudes Keitirima of the High Court Family Division set a date to deliver a ruling in a matter in which his brother lawyer Kassim Male Mabirizi asked Court to force his lawyer Gabriel Byamugisha to testify against him and other family members in their legal fight for their father’s multibillion Estate.

In his application, Mabirizi insist that Byamugisha has for a longtime been the family lawyer and severally represented their late father Mohamed Bazinduse Lulibedda Mutumba in a number of legal matters and even made statements on record which can be useful and help the Court to reach to a fair justice.

Mabirizi filed evidence in Court showing Byamugisha submitting before Justice Irene Akankwasa in 2014 confirming that Mabirizi is a biological son to his client Mutumba.

“Since the counsel for a Judgment Debtor said that the Judgment Debtor is a biological father of the MD, the Judgment Creditor let a NISC issue instead of a warrant of arrest. Family relationships have to be guarded. NISC for 13th/10/ 2014 at 2:30pm,” Justice Akankwasa’s ruling citing Byamugisha’s submissions read in part.

Mabirizi further cited a number of authorities where a lawyer when found to be a potential witness can recuse himself from the case because lawyers are officers of court who help deliver fair justice.

He provided other evidence including an appointment letter signed by Omuttaka Augustine Kizito Mutumba the head of Kkobe clan assigning Mabirizi as the clan minister in charge of legal, information and special duties in the office of the clan head.

In his letter, he explained that the late Mutumba allowed his appointment after confirming to the clan leaders that he is the biological father of the appointed minister (Mabirizi).

He produced other documents where Mutumba signed as his father noting that the move by pastor Male and a section of family members to sideline him on allegations that he is not a son of their father is intentionally targeting his personality to place him before well thinking members of the society as someone who has no family.

He accused Pastor Male of influencing other family members to turn against him because of their personal grudge.

He added that for a longtime, Pastor Male and a section of family members have been challenging Court orders to subject them to a scientific examination through DNA, noting that their main agenda was to sideline him and make sure that he didn’t benefit from his father’s multibillion Estate.

Late Mutumba left behind a juicy Estate with huge chunks of land in different parts of the country including apartments and rentals in areas of Lubaga Division, Nakawa, Central Division.

Mabirizi alleged that before securing letters of administration to manage the deceased’s estate, the accused persons had already started collecting money from the Estate.

Mabirizi claimed that pastor Male masterminded the forging of their father’s will which he based on to challenge of his sonship to the deceased because he had a personal grudge against him.

Lawyer Mabirizi sued pastor Male together with other family members who include; Sirim Mabirizi Mutumba, Muhamed Mutumba Junior, Faisial Sebatindira Mutumba, Shafik Nsereko Mutumba, Sarah Namala Mutumba, Rehema Nababi Mutumba, Farida Nambalirwa Mutumba Shameem Mutumba and Sophie Nassozi Mutumba.

However, the accused persons through their family lawyer Byamugisha denied all the allegations insisting that the deceased’s will was brought to the attention of family members and friends by the widow who informed them that the deceased is the one who asked him to keep it and produce it after his death.

Byamugisha added that the said will which Mabirizi is challenging was read openly before members of the family and friends and his name was not mentioned anywhere when the deceased was mentioning the children he left behind.

He advised Mabirizi that instead of wasting his time and money in Court, he should look for his family and they settle their score so that life moves on.

By Grapevine Reporter