|
It is not very clear what happened to abort the coup which Mayombo was planning. We shall not lie and claim we know. These things will be clear one day.
But somehow the plot leaked and intelligence within PGB and CMI began monitoring Captain Nelson Sendegeya. As they tracked Sendegeya, they were very disturbed when they saw him in secret contact with Mayombo over something which intelligence could not follow.
They also saw some contact between Mayombo and Egesa and things were still confusing.
When PGB intelligence was positive that Mayombo was up to something, they wrote a top-secret report which they handed to Museveni given the senior position which Mayombo had in the state.
Museveni could not believe his eyes! He later ordered action.
On April 21, 2007, some PGB officers invited Captain Sendegeya out for a drink. One of them, Captain Donald Anabasa, offered him a drink which had poison in it. Sendegeya's instinct was to refuse the drink.
Then Anabasa made a phone call to State House, he was given some instructions, then he ordered Lt. Peter Ahimbisibwe to shoot Sendegeya with a pistol.
This story of the shooting was in Bukedde and Red Pepper papers but it did not name Donald Anabasa.
When Sendegeya died, Mayombo was shocked but he tried not to show it to people. He ordered a report on the circumstances leading to Sendegeya's death.
Mayombo knew that his coup had been interrupted. But he was not sure if Sendegeya had died by some bad luck or if the plot to assassinate Museveni had been discovered. Mayombo made it a top priority to find out why Sendegeya had been killed, but it was too late for Mayombo.
Four days later on a Wednesday which was April 25, Mayombo got a call from a very high person in State House telling him to go to the Kampala Serena Hotel for a breakfast meeting the next morning which was Thursday.
If Ugandans want to know who organized Mayombo's death, go and find out who called Mayombo to go for the Thursday morning gbreakfast meeting.h
Mayombo reported to Serena as he had been told. Some drinks were served to Mayombo and his aides.
The drinks had poison put in them by a Congolese man by the names of between Likulya Balongo, a man who used to be in the Presidential guard of the late President Mobutu.
His job was to assassinate Mobutu's enemies by poison and in recent years he had been in Uganda as a special assassin and his expenses were all being paid by State House.
We don't know what happened at that meeting but Mayombo later left Serena Hotel. Some hours later he started complaining about not feeling well.
He had already known that there was an attempt to poison Sendegeya before he was shot. When Mayombo started feeling sick in his stomach, he quickly sensed that this was not a coincidence and it seems his coup had aborted.
That is when he said, in Kiswahili, "Museveni has killed me!"
Radio Katwe can only guess that this follows that the person who told Mayombo to go to Serena Hotel was Museveni himself or maybe somebody acting on orders of M7.
That same Thursday night that Mayombo was poisoned, Egesa died. He had been poisoned somewhere in the afternoon hours of Thursday.
Museveni then tried to pretend that nothing had happened and he was affected by the death of his security boys.
Museveni offered 13 million shillings to the family of Sendegeya as condolences. If you think Radio Katwe is lying, you can crosscheck with your sources at State House if you know anybody there.
We do not yet know how much gcondolenceh money Museveni gave Egesa's family but it could have been the same as the 13 million to Sendegeya's family.
Next, State House tried to keep everything normal because Museveni knew how popular Mayombo was in the army.
Mayombo was by this time in Kololo Hospital and then he was shifted to International Hospital Kampala.
State House worked behind the scenes to convince the local newspapers that the Rwabwoni family wanted to keep Mayombo's sickness out of the news.
New Vision and Daily Monitor and Red Pepper complied. Kampala was full of too many rumours about Mayombo being sick and being poisoned but when people bought the newspapers the following day they saw nothing.
Many people could not understand why this silence. When Museveni was going to Germany last year for treatment of his swollen feet the public knew and State House did not try to hide it too much. Therefore why was the sickness of Mayombo so much a top secret?
You will recall that on Friday night, the army was put on a state of alert and troops were deployed around many strategic places in Kampala and Entebbe and troops in Fort Portal Mayombo's home area were also put on alert. Why?
On Saturday evening around 7p.m. there was a serious rumour spreading around Kampala that Mayombo was dead. The rumour was confirmed by many people who had their ears to the ground or who had sources in intelligence or State House.
That time Mayombo was basically dead and the rumour was true. But to make sure that there was no instability and public anger, the family of Mayombo was pressured to keep quiet about it.
If you called them, they would say he was still alive.
The government had to put on an act of caring so much for him and doing their best to save his life. That is when the plan to take him to Nairobi was hatched.
One of the first people who begged State House to save Mayombo's life by flying him out for top class treatment was Mayombo's defence minister, Dr. Crispus Kiyonga.
Kiyonga as a medical doctor knew that things were bad for Mayombo but when he begged State House to fly out the ailing brigadier, State House ordered Kiyonga not to sanction it. Kiyonga was left feeling confused.
State House was also spreading reports to the public that Mayombo was to be flown to Nairobi on Museveni's presidential jet.
But some people who were at the airport on Saturday night when Mayombo was rushed to Entebbe say they saw Mayombo being taken in a DC-10 plane of Dairo Air, not Museveni's jet.
They wonder why people are believing it was the Gulfstream jet. If you were there at Entebbe you can confirm to us if you saw Mayombo go in the Das Air Cargo DC-10 or the presidential jet.
Up to now, there has not been a single photo in any Ugandan newspaper showing Mayombo being put on the presidential jet or his coffin being brought back from Nairobi on the presidential jet. If you saw the jet being used, confirm with us.
Why did M7 remain campaigning in Kamuli for the LC5 elections and why did he not go to Kololo Airstrip for the memorial service for Mayombo?
When we get to part 6, we shall understand why M7 remained quiet when Mayombo was sick yet Mayombo was Museveni's blue-eyed boy.
|