MAJ GEN ABEL KANDIHO SANCTIONS: Makerere Students Hold Protest at US Embassy

A group of students from Makerere University have today protested at the US embassy in Nsambya in the Ugandan capital days after the Joe Biden administration slapped financial sanctions against CMI chief Maj Gen Abel Kandiho.

The US Treasury Department’s office of foreign assets control designated the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) boss over alleged human rights allegations. (Read the US statement on Kandiho sanctions here).

In response to the declaration of Kandiho sanctions, UPDF and the Museveni government said it was disappointed by the manner in which the US had arrived at the decisions to sanction the army general.

Kandiho himself said he wouldn’t lose sleep over the sanctions.

NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine said all those who have committed sins in the Museveni regime would be punished like Kandiho.

Opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye called on the US government to freeze funding to Museveni security agencies.

Days after the sanctions were announced, students from the Makerere University Pan Africanists’ Assembly marched to the US Embassy in Nsambya, Kampala, in protest of the decision by the US government.

They accused the Biden administration of persecuting their hero in the fight against criminality and terrorism.

The students from Makerere University, the oldest and largest higher learning institution in the country, also told the US government to stop its neocolonial tendencies.

Right from their December 10 press conference at Makerere, the students have made it clear that the US should mind her business and deal with its domestic challenges such as racist attacks against blacks and acts of alleged human rights violations at the Guantanamo Bay.