President Yoweri Museveni has said that it is a waste of time for anyone to spend their resources spying on Uganda.
“It is a waste of time….. Spying to do what? … ‘If I have secrets, you will not know because the secrets are in my head, they are not on microphone,” Mr Museveni told France 24 in an interview.
A recent global reporting investigation, the Pegasus Project, published by 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 others.
When asked about the closed border between Rwanda and Uganda, the Ugandan leader told FRANCE 24’s Marc Perelman to ask the person who closed the border.
“You go and ask the one who closed the border. I am not the one who closed the border. We had discussions long ago with mediation of Angola some years ago, I have not seen the border being opened,” he said.
Meanwhile, the President condemned the coup d’état that happened in Guinea on Sunday, describing it as “a step backwards”. He said the coup leaders should face sanctions and “get out”.
“That’s unfortunate and it is a step backwards. Those military coups are of low value, we had them in the 1960s, and they were part of Africa’s problems. I condemn the coup, I don’t accept the idea of coups, they are not a solution,” he said in an interview with France 24’s Marc Perelman on Wednesday.
“They should get out, they should be told to go away because they are not a solution to problems of the country,” Mr Museveni added.
The 83-year-old Alpha Conde was deposed following intense gunfire in parts of Guinea’s capital Conakry on Sunday.