The Inspector General of Police General Kale Kayihura has today acknowledged the presence of Special Forces Command (SFC) soldiers and ‘other security agencies’ during yesterday’s chaotic scenes at Parliament.
Addressing the press at Entebbe, the IGP said that intelligence established that opposition MPs had planned to cause chaos during yesterday’s session, prompting the SFC to go on standby in a bid to restore peace.
According to Kayihura, he invited the SFC and other security agencies to reinforce the police. “If it is to blame, it is me who invited a sister security organ to assist police, that is why you saw them in civilian attire at in Parliament,” Gen. Kayihura said.
He faulted opposition legislators, saying they started the chaos that led to the intervention of the SFC, and also lauded the soldiers for ‘bringing order and calmness in parliamentary chambers’. “Good work done,” Kayihura said.
Interestingly, Kayihura’s acknowledgement comes as the SFC spokesperson Capt. Jimmy Denis Omara was quoted by media denying the presence at Parliament of the elite soldiers that guard the President, his family and sensitive installations in the country.
It should be recalled that yesterday, Parliament descended into the second day of chaos after the Speaker Rebecca Kadaga suspended 24 opposition MPs and one National Resistance Movement (NRM) legislator, the State Minister for Water Resources Ronald Kibuule, for three sittings, citing indiscipline.
The Speaker’s decision followed allegations made on Monday by Kira Municipality MP Ssemujju Nganda that Minister Kibuule had sneaked in the parliamentary chambers with a gun, and threatened him.
