Sometime in February or March this year, we shall recall that there were media reports in Kampala that the cooks of State House had all been changed or sacked. The article might have been by Red Pepper or something like that. This was the time that PGB got a tip off that there was a coup boiling somewhere somehow but they could not trace where. Precautions had to be taken to check any threat to M7.

PGB had been fearing that M7 could be killed by elements of the PGB who were disgruntled and counter intelligence in PGB headed by Lt. Keith Katungi was put on the alert. Strikes had become the order of the day and Ugandans were hearing from ministers, the inspector general of police and generals. But Mayombo was quiet and people did not sense it.

Mayombo had meetings with Egesa and he briefed Egesa on his plan. He wanted sketches drawn of the way State House Nakasero is planned from the aerial view.

State House Nakasero was renovated in 1993 and 1994 by a company called Blair Wood or something like that. You can crosscheck it. The plans of the premises were not easy to get that is why Mayombo needed the sketched plans of how it looks from the air.

Egesa spent many weeks going round the place and drawing his sketches. So Egesa had a picture of how State House looks like if you are in an aerial position. Egesa was also to locate State House on a professional map and get its particular longitude and latitude bearings.

(By the way, we request anybody who knows the other names of Egesa to send them to us and maybe which schools he studied in and his background.)

Mayombo gave Sendegeya the job of taking on a sensitive mission which was to get missiles from the PGB armoury and deploy them on some hills in the Entebbe Kampala road. We are yet to find out where they were to be put. The missiles were part of the national air defence network and they were part of the batch which are stationed at the PGB training school at Kasenyi as you go along the Entebbe road.

We cannot confirm this but someone said these are the similar in size to missiles which were used by Museveni and Kagame to shoot down Habyarimana's plane in 1994. Though we are still wondering how a Surface to Air Missile (SAM) could work like this against a house instead of a plane. We are informed they are army green in colour and in size the missile is around two feet long. The launcher is also around the same size.

Mayombo was a proud guy and he had wanted his mission to fall on the same day as his birthday which was April 9. If he became president Ugandans would celebrate his birthday on the same day as liberation day from Museveni's tyranny. Mayombo could have promised Egesa and Sendegeya big positions and money in the army if he succeeded and he became the president of Uganda.

The plan was that on D-Day Sendegeya would go to the top of the hill on the outskirts of Kampala and assemble the missile launcher. The launcher is usually put on a tripod stand and programmed.

Sendegeya was going to programme it as they usually do by computer and then it would zero in on State House at Nakasero and wait.

We have already told you that Egesa was the officer in charge of the interceptor missiles on the ground at State House. Any missile you fire can be intercepted before it hits its target. Egesa's job was to disable the ground interceptor systems maybe by disconnecting the fuses, maybe by switching off the power so that when the missiles came in they would not be stopped. We can make some guesses but his task was using any method to sabotage the interceptor system

How it worked therefore was that when Museveni was sleeping in State House, Mayombo would give the order and Sendegeya would fire the missiles from one of the hill outside Kampala and they would come in and blast into Museveni's bedroom and kill him. Once Museveni was dead, Mayombo would have declared a coup and form a military government.

We also have unconfirmed source claim that Mayombo was also going to fire missiles on the residence of General Salim Saleh on the shores of Lake Victoria on Entebbe road. But we cannot yet cross check this. You see Saleh is the effective head of the army and he was seen as a man who could mobilize loyal troops to counter fight Mayombo's men. Saleh is the commander of the reserve force.

That was the plan which Radio Katwe can exclusively give you and we did our best to make sure it is as accurate and the truth and nothing but the truth. It is common knowledge in the security circles. It is only the general public who don't know it so dont fear that we are exposing some people and putting them in danger because many officers in the UPDF know this story otherwise how do you think Radio Katwe got it? We have been piecing it together since Mayombo died.

What we want to know is what happened and how the coup plot by Mayombo was uncovered by the PGB and CMI.

This is what we shall try to understand when we come to the next part 5.