Former Senior Presidential Press Secretary Joseph Tamale Mirundi has revealed why he had to hug and shake hands with his two longtime enemies, Andrew Mwenda and Minister of Agriculture Frank Tumwebaze.
On Saturday during First Son Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s 48th Birthday bash which took place at Lugogo Cricket Oval, Mirundi hugged Tumwebaze before the duo posed for a photo moment.
Then on Sunday during Gen Muhoozi’s birthday dinner at State House Entebbe, The controversial political analyst also had a light moment with veteran journalist Mwenda.
Mirundi had spend some good years without seeing eye to eye with the two (Mwenda and Tumwebaze) whom he accused of being part of the powerful mafia clique fighting him.
And on several occasions, Mirundi has been vowing that he would kill Mwenda and Tumwebaze in case he finds then anywhere.
Nevertheless, the gesture displayed over the weekend raised many questions about whether the rivalry between them was over.
However, appearing on ‘Radio 4’ on Monday, Mirundi said rubbing shoulders with his longtime enemies meant nothing and that he was willing to work with anyone who loves and supports Gen Muhoozi.
“People should not worry or wonder because there was no deal between me and Tumwebaze or Mwenda. However, I want the public to know that whoever supports Gen Muhoozi I will shake hands with him or her. Nobody has suffered like me, I rejected a job and they even took my vehicle but that is another story which I must not carry when it comes to Gen Muhoozi,” he said.
For over a decade Mirundi has been attacking Tumwebaze and Mwenda through various media outlets.
In one of the media talk shows, Mirundi accused Minister Tumwebaze of conniving with other people in government to stop radios and televisions from hosting him because his shows were exposing the dirty linen of some big fish in government (including Tumwebaze).
Mirundi also alluded that Tumwebaze is one of the people who facilitated his sacking from State House by doctoring a recording that implicated him in abusing the First Lady Janet Kataha Museveni.
Appearing on Pearl FM, the controversial political commentator claimed that Tumwebaze and his sister-in-law also permanent secretary to the Health Ministry Dr Diana Atwiine fell out with embattled Executive Director of Mulago National referral hospital Dr Byaruhanga Baterana because of the ownership of the Mulago hospital mortuary which he tried to block from getting owned by ‘Mafia group’.
Mirundi added that the duo is also in the human organs extraction industry whereby they connive with doctors to deliberately cause the death of manageable patients with an intent to obtain organs.
“Baterana is being fought by Tumwebaze and his in-law Atwiine. These people took over ownership of the Mulago mortuary and Baterana tried to meddle and that’s why he’s being fought,” Mirundi stressed.
“Tumwebaze and his group connive with doctors to prescribe the wrong drugs to the patients. These wrong drugs work as catalysts that speed up the death of patients. The Tumwebaze group then extracts organs from the bodies in the mortuary before submitting them (bodies) to relatives. They wrap these bodies so that even families don’t realize that their people have missing body parts,” he explained.
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