Does this woman know who killed Kaweesi?

The other issue involved an operation that Juuko and group carried out in one of the Kampala suburbs. Apparently, the operation resulted into the death an operative that was working closely with former head of Police Special Operations, Nickson Agasiirwe.

The operation heightened tensions between police and ISO. Some insiders suspect that while police claimed it was at Mbabazi’s residence to rescue her, the real motive was to arrest Juuko. It is not the first time Juuko is at the centre of a fight between police and ISO. The Independent has secured court records which reveal another incident. On Dec. 26 in 1999, Lt. Serwanga Juuko and a colleague went to Entebbe International Airport. Their mission was to arrest a Pakistani national called Nasar Ahmed, a suspected terrorist.

The operatives had received information that the suspect would arrive at the airport that morning on a Gulf flight from Dubai. At the same time, the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Uganda Police Force had received similar intelligence that the same Pakistani would arrive at the airport with prohibited drugs (cocaine).

Three CID officers went to the airport to arrest him, if they found him with the drugs.

After protracted searches by both the officers of ISO and CID, a bag was found on the conveyer belt where the suspect had deliberately left it.

Both ISO and the CID officers wanted both the bag and the suspect.

Eventually the CID officers succeeded in retaining the bag which was found to contain the cocaine while the ISO officers took away the Pakistani.

Despite various assurances by the ISO officers that the CID officers would find the suspect in Kampala, however, he disappeared and was never arrested by the police.

The two ISO officers were arrested and charged with two offences of abuse of office and assisting the Pakistani to escape punishment.

The trial Magistrate at Buganda Road Court acquitted them on the charge of abuse of office but convicted them on the charge of assisting the Pakistani to escape punishment.

He sentenced them to 6 months imprisonment. Juuko and his colleague appealed but the High Court upheld the conviction and the sentence. They appealed the second time, lost again and were sentenced to Luzira.

With Kaka at the helm of ISO, Juuko bounced back and has been at the centre of several operations including the hunt for Kaweesi’s killers.

Given the secrecy and rivalry between these agencies, it is hard to tell who is telling the truth. But the inconsistences surrounding the whole saga is further exposing the bodies involved.

Museveni’s mistrust

An insider told The Independent that the deployment of Special Forces, which protects President Museveni, to protect Mbabazi was revealing how valuable she is to the President but also how distrustful of the two entities the President is.

Indeed, Mbabazi has openly accused ISO agents including their boss, Col. Kaka of harassing and framing her. She claims that Kaka produced a handcuffed informer while in a meeting with her who accused her of being party to a scheme by senior police officers to murder Kayihura.

Since Kaweesi was murdered, one of the theories that has been floated around, among several others, is that he was likely murdered by some senior police officers.

The clash at Mbabazi’s home is being seen as a climax of tensions between the two bodies, which have simmered for years, but appeared to get out of control since investigations into the murder of AIGP Kaweesi begun early this year.