President Museveni has laughed at reports that Rwanda is spying on Uganda, saying they are only wasting their time since it will not yield anything much for them.
“It is a waste of time….. Spying to do what? … but if I have secrets you will not know because they(secrets) are in my head. They are not on microphone,” Museveni said on Wednesday.
The president was speaking to French TV, France 24 in an exclusive prerecorded interview.
A recent global reporting investigation, the Pegasus Project, published the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) indicated that Rwanda used Israel software, Pegasus to spy on several top ranking Ugandan government officials.
In the report it was said that the Kigali establishment spied on former Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda and former Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa.
“Among the Ugandans on the [wiretapping] list, OCCRP has identified numbers belonging to long-time senior Cabinet member Sam Kutesa, former [Chief of Defence] Forces General David Muhoozi, senior intelligence officer Joseph Ocwet and leading opposition figure Fred Nyanzi Ssentamu. The selection [of the telephone numbers for tapping] coincided with a visit Kagame to Uganda,” the report revealed.
However when asked about the same, President Museveni said where he didn’t closely follow the reports, he was sure Rwanda wasted their time spying on Ugandan officials since nothing they could get.