Uganda Military Chief’s Pressures Group To ‘Shut Down Turkish Embassy’
By Black Star News A great wall of the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) supporters will shut down the Turkish Embassy in Uganda’s capital, Kampala once Ankara does not yield to the pressure group’s demands. PLU supporters swarmed the Turkish Embassy in Kampala on September 18 as directed by its chairman, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba. Gen. Muhoozi—who is Gen. Yoweri Museveni’s son—heads the military and also serves as his father’s Senior Presidential Advisor on Special Operations. “Today [September 18]”, stated PLU General Secretary, lawmaker Twalla Fadil, “as instructed by our chairman @mkainerugaba, we held a successful and peaceful demonstration at the Turkish Embassy, expressing our disappointment with the Turkish Government for harbouring criminals and enemies of our peace and unity as a country.” He continued: “We asked them to extradite [Fred Kajubi] Lumbuye as soon as possible if they truly value our bilateral relations and respect our sovereignty. We asked them to respect our judicial system and stop granting Lumbuye the asylum status he has applied for through his lawyers in order to escape justice. He should come and face justice. If they do not respond as they have promised, next time we will shut down the Embassy with a wall of PLU supporters,” Fadil warned Turkey on September 18. Moreover, according to lawyer Godwin Toko, when youths wanted to march against corruption in 2024, Uganda Police asked them to give details of: meeting venue, time, evacuation and medical plans, size of the crowd, etc, two months in advance. “[Yet] PLU people are marching for what I’m sure most of them don’t even know, but even the marchers got to know their assembly point just hours to the march!” regrets Toko. And Gideon Nova Kwikiriza exclaims: “If these were any other Ugandans, they would be nursing wounds, some would have lost their lives, while all detention centers across Kampala; big, small and even those not known, would be overflowing [with arrested peaceful and unarmed protestors]. But because some Ugandans are more Ugandan than others, we now see security officers pleading with a mob that attempted to attack an embassy. What country!” Lumbuye is a Ugandan dissident resident in Turkey. He stands accused of being critical of Museveni and his family. It is said Lumbuye sometimes does not spare his king either in his criticisms; the Kabaka of Buganda in central Uganda. “I am puzzled: What does ‘attacking Uganda’ mean? Has this Lumbuye chap breached our borders using guns, tanks, missiles, grenades, aircraft, etc. Is he engaged in a war against us? Where?” asks Constitutional lawyer, Dan Wandera Ogalo, on September 18. According to Human Rights Defenders, Uganda’s military chief is mobilizing his pressure group against Turkey over its refusal to surrender government critic Lumbuye. “[But] an individual [read Gen Muhoozi] can’t intimidate a sovereign state [of Turkey] into surrendering a protected person. Refugee law isn’t governed by military orders or street pressure,” Human Rights Defenders sought to clarify on September 18. And Extradition of suspects follows the law not political demonstrations, says former Secretary of the Uganda Law Society, Isaac Atukunda. “If Uganda wants a suspect who is based in Turikiye to be brought to face criminal trial before Ugandan courts [of law], the matter should be approached as a matter of law, evidence and diplomacy, not a political public demonstration. A political public demonstration cannot be a substitute for a legal extradition request. A political public demonstration for return of a suspect risks creating precisely the legal question whether the Extradition request is genuinely a criminal prosecution, or is a political matter!” reasons Atukunda. “Rule of Law and Constitutionalism demands following of formal legal Extradition of suspects to ensure defence and protection of their rights,” Atukunda counsels on September 18. Museveni, meanwhile, met with the Turkish Ambassador to Uganda, Mehmet Fatih Ak, a day preceding the demonstrations. “They discussed matters of bilateral interest,” State House said in a September 17 statement. Most ironically though, as the demonstrations were being planned and executed in Kampala, Uganda’s 1st Deputy Prime Minister and East African Community Affairs minister, Rebecca Kadaga, was “anchoring Uganda’s Trade drive at AFEX 2026 Business Forum and Expo in Istanbul, Turikiye”. “Her engagement reinforces Uganda’s commitment to driving intra-continental partnerships and cementing mutual trade agreements with the Turkish private sector; showcasing Uganda’s immense capacity in agriculture, tourism, manufacturing and infrastructure,” the Embassy of the Republic of Uganda in Turkey notes in a statement on September 17.
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A great wall of the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) supporters will shut down the Turkish Embassy in Uganda’s capital, Kampala once Ankara does not yield to the pressure group’s demands. PLU supporters swarmed the Turkish Embassy in Kampala on September 18 as directed by its chairman, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba. Gen. Muhoozi—who is Gen. Yoweri Museveni’s son—heads the military and also serves as his father’s Senior Presidential Advisor on Special Operations.
“Today [September 18]”, stated PLU General Secretary, lawmaker Twalla Fadil, “as instructed by our chairman @mkainerugaba, we held a successful and peaceful demonstration at the Turkish Embassy, expressing our disappointment with the Turkish Government for harbouring criminals and enemies of our peace and unity as a country.”
He continued: “We asked them to extradite [Fred Kajubi] Lumbuye as soon as possible if they truly value our bilateral relations and respect our sovereignty. We asked them to respect our judicial system and stop granting Lumbuye the asylum status he has applied for through his lawyers in order to escape justice. He should come and face justice. If they do not respond as they have promised, next time we will shut down the Embassy with a wall of PLU supporters,” Fadil warned Turkey on September 18.
Moreover, according to lawyer Godwin Toko, when youths wanted to march against corruption in 2024, Uganda Police asked them to give details of: meeting venue, time, evacuation and medical plans, size of the crowd, etc, two months in advance. “[Yet] PLU people are marching for what I’m sure most of them don’t even know, but even the marchers got to know their assembly point just hours to the march!” regrets Toko.
And Gideon Nova Kwikiriza exclaims: “If these were any other Ugandans, they would be nursing wounds, some would have lost their lives, while all detention centers across Kampala; big, small and even those not known, would be overflowing [with arrested peaceful and unarmed protestors]. But because some Ugandans are more Ugandan than others, we now see security officers pleading with a mob that attempted to attack an embassy. What country!”
Lumbuye is a Ugandan dissident resident in Turkey. He stands accused of being critical of Museveni and his family. It is said Lumbuye sometimes does not spare his king either in his criticisms; the Kabaka of Buganda in central Uganda.
“I am puzzled: What does ‘attacking Uganda’ mean? Has this Lumbuye chap breached our borders using guns, tanks, missiles, grenades, aircraft, etc. Is he engaged in a war against us? Where?” asks Constitutional lawyer, Dan Wandera Ogalo, on September 18.
According to Human Rights Defenders, Uganda’s military chief is mobilizing his pressure group against Turkey over its refusal to surrender government critic Lumbuye. “[But] an individual [read Gen Muhoozi] can’t intimidate a sovereign state [of Turkey] into surrendering a protected person. Refugee law isn’t governed by military orders or street pressure,” Human Rights Defenders sought to clarify on September 18.
And Extradition of suspects follows the law not political demonstrations, says former Secretary of the Uganda Law Society, Isaac Atukunda. “If Uganda wants a suspect who is based in Turikiye to be brought to face criminal trial before Ugandan courts [of law], the matter should be approached as a matter of law, evidence and diplomacy, not a political public demonstration. A political public demonstration cannot be a substitute for a legal extradition request. A political public demonstration for return of a suspect risks creating precisely the legal question whether the Extradition request is genuinely a criminal prosecution, or is a political matter!” reasons Atukunda. “Rule of Law and Constitutionalism demands following of formal legal Extradition of suspects to ensure defence and protection of their rights,” Atukunda counsels on September 18.
Museveni, meanwhile, met with the Turkish Ambassador to Uganda, Mehmet Fatih Ak, a day preceding the demonstrations. “They discussed matters of bilateral interest,” State House said in a September 17 statement.
Most ironically though, as the demonstrations were being planned and executed in Kampala, Uganda’s 1st Deputy Prime Minister and East African Community Affairs minister, Rebecca Kadaga, was “anchoring Uganda’s Trade drive at AFEX 2026 Business Forum and Expo in Istanbul, Turikiye”.
“Her engagement reinforces Uganda’s commitment to driving intra-continental partnerships and cementing mutual trade agreements with the Turkish private sector; showcasing Uganda’s immense capacity in agriculture, tourism, manufacturing and infrastructure,” the Embassy of the Republic of Uganda in Turkey notes in a statement on September 17.
