Mutale Blasts Tumukunde

SENIOR Presidential Assistant Major Kakoza Mutale yesterday blasted the Internal Security Organisation (ISO) chief Brig. Henry Tumukunde, describing the latter’s statement against him as being “grossly misdirected and glaringly insubordinate.” Emmy Allio and Harry Sagara report that Mutale denied that his Kalangala Action Plan (KAP) was being investigated. However, he said he was ready for Tumukunde’s probe.Tumukunde told the parliamentary select committee on election violence that President Yoweri Museveni had ordered for investigations into KAP. He said, “The Kakooza Mutale thing is over-amplified. If more research was put into it, there is nothing crucial about it. You give him (Mutale) a lot of temperature for nothing. Tell him to tackle me, I would trim him.”He said, “My mission is to mobilise support for the Movement. “If Tumukunde is pursuing something contrary to that, he will face a formidable force.”Mutale said, “I am ready for this Tumukunde probe if it is true that it is under the instructions of the President. “How can he (Tumukunde) say KAP has no identity cards. As a Movement person, does he have an identity card of the Movement?”He said Tumukunde’s “alleged utterances are not only irregular of their seemingly contravening the Internal Security Act under which he serves but also grossly misdirected and glaringly insubordinate as they poise to contradict the testimony of the President.”“Why shouldn’t Brig. Tumukunde know KAP after the Commander-in- Chief so much laboured to explain it so well? Is this a mistake or an intended malicious campaign?” Mutale said.On April 22, Museveni described KAP as a “political action group of the Movement which helps in gathering intelligence in disturbed areas”The President said he had cautioned Mutale, whom he described as an active mobiliser, to desist from arrests and concentrate on mobilisation.Ends