UGANDA DRAWN INTO GUNMEN SAGA
By Reuben Olita in Nairobi and Alfred Wasike in Kampala
New Vision, Uganda
June 20 2006
TWO Armenian brothers deported from Kenya for drawing guns on custom
officials at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport have now been
accused of working themselves into the heart of Uganda’s government.
Kenyan MP Raila Odinga, a former minister in the Kibaki administration,
who blew the whistle on Artur Margaryan and Artur Sargasyan in March,
accusing them of being merceneries on government rent, now claims
they attended President Yoweri Museveni’s May inauguration in Kampala.
On Saturday, Odinga alleged that the Armenians sat at the high table
as Museveni took oath.
In Kampala, Museveni’s press secretary, Onapito Ekomoloit, rubbished
Oginga’s claims. "I did not see those men anywhere near the
President. I have seen their pictures in the Kenyan papers but the
President has not met any investors from the former Soviet Union,"
Onapito said.