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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Uganda People\u2019s Defense Forces (UPDF) said Tuesday they will be seeking clarification from the United States of America authorities on financial sanctions slapped against the Chief of Military Intelligence, Maj Gen Abel Kandiho.<\/p>\n

UPDF spokesperson, Brig Gen Flavia Byekwaso said Maj Kandiho was not given a fair hearing by the USA authorities before announcing what she described as \u201cunilateral financial sanctions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a country and UPDF in particular, a reputable government institution, we are disappointed that such a decision could be made by a country we consider friendly, a partner and a great ally, without due process and in total disregard of the principle of fair hearing coupled with failure to make the necessary consultation. Going forward, we will be seeking clarification from the United States of America government\/ authorities to be able to determine way forward,\u201d Brig Byekwaso said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Maj Kandiho joins a growing list of Ugandan security chiefs such as former Inspector General of Police (IGP), Maj Gen Kale Kayihur, to be sanctioned by the US.<\/p>\n

Gen Kandiho\u2019s sanctions comes just months after the US Senators on the Committee on Foreign Relations early this year gave the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, up to March 31 to present a detailed analysis of the US-Uganda relationship \u201cinformed by an inter-agency review of whether continued partnership\u201d with the regime in Kampala posed risks to Washington\u2019s interests in the region.<\/p>\n

The Senators, James Risch (Republican, Idaho) and Cory Booker (Democrat, Washington), in a March 4 letter to Mr Blinken, said despite repeated calls on the state democracy and human rights abuses in Uganda, the Washington-Kampala relations have \u201cremained largely unchanged for years\u201d while the State Department and Department of Defence \u201chave generally responded with platitude\u201d about the Kampala regime\u2019s essential contribution to Amisom, managing the South Sudan peace process, and the longstanding partnership on HIV\/Aids, and additional regional security.<\/p>\n

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Last December, Democratic senator Bob Menendez, who currently chairs the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, tabled a resolution to compel the Secretary of State and heads of other departments and agencies to consider the imposition of targeted sanctions and visa restrictions.<\/p>\n

Two weeks earlier in December, the House of Representatives Committee on foreign chair, Eliot Engel (who lost his seat), also wrote to the former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo and Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, recommending sanctions against Lt-Gen Peter Elwelu, Maj. Gen. James Birungi, Maj-Gen. Don William Nabasa, and Maj. Gen Kandiho.<\/p>\n

In the March 4, 2021, letter, the senators echoed previous calls for Washington to invoke the Magnitsky Act to sanction individuals involved in corruption in recent years, and in egregious human rights violations during and after January\u2019s polls.<\/p>\n

The calls to Washington to take action against the Kampala regime came on the backdrop of widespread reports of civilian abductions by unidentified security operatives and driven in vans with no registration plates, known as \u2018\u2019drones\u2019\u2019 to unknown destinations, leaving families and relatives in distress.<\/p>\n

There were also widespread accusations that security forces kill people at will as long as they can qualify an individual was a protestor or threatened them, and go unpunished.<\/p>\n

The US gives Uganda nearly $1 billion annually, mainly for health and security support. In return, the Kampala regime has positioned itself as an anchorman of stability in the volatile Great Lakes region, including running security errands, more significantly fighting al Shabaab in Somalia.<\/p>\n

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