In those days Colonel Noble Rwabwoni Mayombo had been so ambitious and he looked up to Museveni as a great leader for Africa. He left university to join the NRA in 1985 out of admiring Museveni. Museveni can be a very clever speaker who can convince you if you don't also know how to think deeply about things.

He defended Museveni and his NRM all the time and was ready to work for the system. But as we told you in part 1, he had never really seen Museveni up close as a person until he became his ADC.

That was when he saw Museveni's mannerisms. He saw a villager and a crude uncultured man who was too primitive for Mayombo to believe. He could not imagine that he Mayombo would be made to bathe Museveni or to tie his shoelaces as part of being an ADC. But he tried to swallow the humiliation and keep quiet.

In 1997 when the presidential military adviser Major General David Tinyefuza got disgusted with the way the army was being run, you remember it caused a High Court case. Tinyefuza won the case where he argued that he had a right to resign from the army which he no longer believed in.

Mayombo like any other officer went along with the policy of publicly criticizing Tinyefuza. We are told that privately Mayombo sympathized with Tinyefuza but he could not show it. Mayombo could feel that what Tinyefuza was saying was right but what could he do? He had to keep quiet and pretend to follow his boss' line in public.

You have our story here at Radio Katwe of what happened in early 2001 when presidential Kizza Besigye was supposed to have taken a flight to Adjumani and how it aborted.

Museveni could see that Besigye was pulling big crowds and a lot of support so he felt that he had to finish off Besigye. One of the surest ways of getting in Musevenis hit list is to show that you are a serious rival for the presidential seat. He came up with the plan of shooting down the plane which Besigye was supposed to fly on and then they say it is the LRA which did it. As you know, the LRA rebels were active during that time.

Mayombo's brother Okwiri Rwabwoni was on the Elect Besigye Task Force (EBTF) team and Mayombo as chief of CMI knew of this plan so he had to do his level best to make sure Okwir was not harmed. If you remember, Mayombo himself was quoted in the newspapers that he had received information "from one of my intelligence contacts in EBTF that Hon. Okwiri was going to be killed in Adjumani by the EBTF members". But he knew the real person who was being targeted by Museveni was Besigye. His brother was just collateral damage as they say. So he got Andrew Mwenda's brother Major Kayanja Muhanga, Major Moses Rwakitarate, and others to grab Okwir and make sure he does not fly with Besigye.

The whole thing ended in big "kavuyo" at the airport with glasses breaking, tables being thrown, and blows raining like hail stones! Check the newspapers of around 20th or 21st February 2001 if you want to remember this story.

Mayombo never forgot that experience. It made him see how a coward Museveni is. He saw a man who can kill anything and anybody to keep power. Killing Mayombo's own brother meant nothing to him as long as his political rival was eliminated. Each time he thought that his brother would have been dead.

Still he went on as if he had seen nothing. But inside he started to feel sorry for Besigye and his suffering but he was quiet and did not show it publicly.

After the elections Besigye went to exile in South Africa and Mayombo as head of CMI was the one who created the false story of Besigye supporting PRA rebels. Mayombo even had a hot exchange on Andrew Mwenda's radio program with Besigye in 2002 where he said Besigye was working with LRA.

Now we jump to 2006. This is where things heat up.

Besigye is back in Uganda, the presidential campaigns are on again and Museveni has had Besigye arrested on fake treason and rape charges and sent to prison. Museveni tried to send two poison spray guns to Luzira prison but Winnie Byanyima the wife of Besigye was tipped off (by someone you will know one day, we cannot say now) and Besigye survived that one.

Mayombo was feeling sorry for Besigye as a person who is suffering so much but Mayombo was not showing his feelings. The man was just exercising his right as a qualified Ugandan to campaign for president but Museveni who fears competition so much just wanted to kill him.

Western Ambassadors, Donors and other forces of good finally forced Museveni and Besigye came out of Luzira and was free to campaign. The man with a rough voice was getting even more many crowds and supporters.

In late January 2006 the Elect Museveni Task Force of Moses Kigongo and the Amama Mbabazis was not delivering crowds so Museveni sidelined them. He brought in General Saleh his step-brother and trusted brainy Mayombo to take over.

Mayombo was more organized than Saleh of course and he organized the campaign again. First of all he decided to do an opinion poll all over Uganda to sample the support base of Museveni and which areas to put more money and campaigning effort.

You remember Radio Katwe gave you that story of how Mayombo's opinion poll showed that Museveni was doing too, too badly with only a paltry 27 percent and Besigye was around 60 percent. (We are still working on putting up our old stories so that you can search them). The other candidates like Miria Obote and Sebaana Kizito shared the rest.

Mayombo took the results to Museveni one Thursday at State House. Mayombo told M7 that he needed to switch to another strategy for winning and the only sure way now was was rigging. But it had to be done in a very clever way.

You will recall that Radio Katwe gave you a story it its early days of how Saleh went to Entebbe government statistics department to get the population census figures for the country. He was so shocked when he read it on Radio Katwe and up to now he is wondering how Radio Katwe knew that. The population lists were to be used to tally the rigging with the Electoral Commission voter registration list so that it looks genuine. In the previous presidential elections the rigging was so obvious because some votes were more than all the people in that area including children.

The rigging went ahead and Museveni "won" with 59 percent of the vote and Besigye 37.

But Mayombo had seen something which he never forgot. He had done an opinion poll all over Uganda and it was showing Museveni at 27 percent. All along Mayombo had assumed that Museveni was no longer popular as he was in 1986. But he did not expect Museveni to be so hated that he was down to 27 percent support.

Mayombo was now seeing Museveni in another way. He was not seeing a great man but a man who had overstayed his welcome and who had no support at the grassroots.

Mayombo we know felt that he could be president one day maybe when M7 was out of power. This opinion poll was showing Mayombo that Museveni was already no longer popular. The young man began to feel confident in himself and to see that Museveni was just a myth not a popular or powerful man.

Late last year, in November or December Janet Museveni and her beloved step-son Major Muhoozi Kainerugaba approached Museveni to talk about how things were not going well in Uganda and how Museveni was losing it.

You have heard that story as rumors in Uganda. Janet told Muhoozi to talk to his father but the two of them ended up quarreling.

Among other things Muhoozi demanded to know what happened to his real mother but some Radio Katwe sources tell us that Muhoozi also wanted to know why Museveni was giving all his time to his Principle Private Secretary (PPS) Amelia Kyambadde and registering Kisozi Ranch in the names of Amber Kyambadde.

Amber Kyambadde is the child of around 19 years who it is rumored Museveni has with Amelia.

Museveni saw Muhoozi getting angry and his anger becoming like a volcano. Museveni fired two pistol shots one near Muhoozi's right foot and another on the floor near him. Muhoozi was shocked and shouted something at his father.

Museveni called to his security men and ordered Muhoozi to be put under house arrest. Things were bad. Janet left State House Nakasero and pitched camp in a house in the Kampala suburbs. At Christmas time the family was not together. M7 also stormed out of town and was alone at Rwakitura.

Mayombo the loyal officer was called to take over Museveni's personal security detail in the PGB. Before that it had been Muhoozi.

In part 3 of Mayombo's coup, we shall tell you what happened from that day after Mayombo took over M7's personal security.