"Security sources told Sunday Monitor that the PGB officer is now doing casual jobs in Japan. Bantariza said that Akuna faces charges of desertion in accordance with the army statute of 1992."

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Fellow Citizens,

Watch out for these types of assylum seekers.  Museveni is busy sending out his intelligence officers, especially from his own office to seek for assylum.  There is evidence on this type of assylum seekers.

The idea is to make them be accepted by Ugandans in the diaspora as also being a fellow refugee (that is as one of us), and B I N G O !!  you will fall an easy prey.  

It may be long after, for you to discover that something is not OK with you.

Also don't forget that Museveni recently warned that he would soon get rid of the "rebels" in the diaspora first.

WARNING - don't trust anybody just because he says he/she too has run away from Musveni's disctatorship.

Fore warned is fore-said!!

Be your own guard.

Best regards,

Nyar'Onyango
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  Subject: PPU officer disappears on Museveni trip 


  PPU officer disappears on Museveni trip
  By Alex B. Atuhaire
  Nov 16, 2003

        KAMPALA – An intelligence officer in the Presidential Guard Brigade (PGB) has deserted.

        Lt. Akuna, whose second name could not be readily established, disappeared last month while he was accompanying President Yoweri Museveni to Japan and Thailand.

        Army Spokesman, Maj. Shaban Bantariza confirmed Friday that Akuna had deserted the unit. He said Akuna deserted to go for kyeyo (casual employment) in Japan.

        Security sources told Sunday Monitor that the PGB officer is now doing casual jobs in Japan. Bantariza said that Akuna faces charges of desertion in accordance with the army statute of 1992.

        He said the officer would be court-martialed and faces up to a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, upon conviction. Mr Museveni left for Thailand on October 1 and returned on October 4 after attending a conference in Japan.

        Akuna was on the president’s security advance team that left two days ahead of the president’s entourage. He disappeared from his colleagues after reaching Japan.

        The PGB Commanding Officer, Lt. Col. Jack Bakasumba, said Friday that other presidential escorts had deserted the unit before but there was no cause for alarm.

        “Some few elements have deserted and gone out but we have the lowest number of desertions,” he told Sunday Monitor.

        Bantariza dismissed claims that Akuna’s disappearance was symptomatic of more desertions from the PGB. 

        “But let me tell you, even officers in America do desert the army and despite the tough laws against desertion, people have been deserting. So anybody deserting is not news,” he said.

        Bakasumba said that desertion is common in every sector, including public service.

       


  © 2003 The Monitor Publications

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