The President of Uganda, Yoweli Kaguta Museveni has written to his counterpart of Rwanda, President Paul Kagame saying that, ‘by accident’, he met RNC head of Diplomacy, Charlotte Mukankusi and Rwanda’s former Ambassador to the United Nations, Eugène Gasana.

News has been circulating that Museveni has early this month met Charlotte Mukankusi, the Head of Diplomacy in Rwanda National Congress (RNC) a group founded by Kayumba Nyamwasa and that declared war on the Government of Rwanda.

On Tuesday, the New Vision, a Ugandan newspaper released a copy of a letter President Museveni wrote to his Rwandan counterpart explaining the circumstances under which he met Mukankusi whom he admits asked him for support to RNC.

“I am writing to let you know that by accident, I, at last, had a meeting with a Rwandan who admitted to being a member of the group you told me about – Rwanda National Congress (RNC),” reads part of Museveni letter to Kagame.

“This is a lady known as Mukankusi, whom, I am sure you know, but I had never met before. One of my NRM contacts kept telling me that there was a Rwandan lady who had some important information to give me and that she wanted to come with someone called Gasana, who also had important information,” Museveni wrote.

Museveni also reveals that the RNC official came to seek a support from him which he says he denied saying it goes against the African Union stand.

“She said she wanted me to know bad things that were happening in Rwanda. She further told me that she had joined the RNC to resist Your Excellency’s Government and she wanted us to support them,” said Museveni in his letter to Kagame.

In the letter, Museveni said he told Mukankusi that “we could not support them because what was happening in Rwanda was an internal matter of Rwanda. I explained to her that the stand of the African Union is a scientific one and it is correct. Interfering in the internal affairs of sister countries is wrong because, first of all, outsiders cannot understand situations of sister countries well.”

On Gasana, Museveni said, he had first mistaken him with Gasana who was behind him at Ntare Secondary School and who, for a long time, had worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uganda but later discovered it was a different person when they met.
According to Museveni, Gasana said he was not involved with RNC, “but that he came to help a white lady, Wolfson, who we had declared persona-non-grata, to come back and continue her charity work.”

“Some of our people in the diaspora had worked with him “some of our people in the diaspora had worked on it with him (Gasana). He told me that he works with a Jewish Agency and “apparently, they are the ones who support Wolfson,” Museveni adds.
President Museveni goes on to tell Kagame on how and what the talked with tycoon Rujugiro whom he said resists the idea of selling his businesses which he had accepted before.

“He (Rujugiro) countered the idea of giving support of giving money to Kayumba by saying that even he sells his factories in Uganda, he still has more lucrative factories in Angola, DR Congo, etc … a total of eight of them. He can send the money from those,” Museveni wrote.

Museveni adds that Rujugiro denied sending money to Kayumba or being a politician.
“If, therefore, he is still a problem to Rwanda, the correct option is to use the Courts of Uganda to prove the case of terrorism and then his assets can be frozen,” Museveni suggests in the letter.