The Inspector General of Police General Kale Kayihura has appointed Abraham Sagal, a member of former President Milton Obote’s Presidential Escort Unit (PEU), as his Personal Assistant, sources said.
A Commissioner of Police (CP) under the defunct Special Branch, Sagal was part of Dr. Obote’s inner security ring that was headed by another senior police officer, Odong Oduka. Until recently CP Sagal has been with Interpol.
The changes effected by Gen. Kayihura today and communicated in a radio message by Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP) Moses Balimoyo come in the wake of President Yoweri Museveni’s directive to the IGP to ‘clean his house’, following the gruesome assassination of AIGP Andrew Felix Kaweesi, two weeks ago.
The changes that have brought in CP Sagal have seen Assistant Commissioner of Police Jonathan Baroza, the immediate former Personal Assistant to Gen. Kayihura, Immaculate Musimenta, Ambrose Rwanyonga, Isaiah Igumira, David Sembera and Emmanuel Ochamringa, all sent to the police Human Resource Department for re-deployment.
Following Dr. Obote’s overthrow on July 27, 1985, CP Sagal fled to Zambia with the former Head of State, and returned to Uganda in the mid-2000s, almost at the same time with the former President Obote’s son Jimmy Akena.
And contacted today, Akena admitted he knew CP Sagal as his father’s aide,
“Yes, he (CP Sagal) was part of Mzee’s (Dr.Obote) security detail,” Akena, who is the Lira Municipality Member of Parliament, said.
Born in Moroto, CP Sagal went to Moroto High School and among his former schoolmates is Hilary Onek, the Minister of Disaster Preparedness in the Office of the Prime Minister.
