Museveni confirms ex-speaker has gone to third country

President Yoweri Museveni has said Uganda did not hand back the former Rwandan parliamentary speaker, Joseph Kabuye Sebarenzi who fled to Kampala, because it was not his country’s policy. The ex-speaker fled to Uganda earlier this year after the Rwandan authorities accused him of sedition. In an interview with the ‘EastAfrican’, published on Monday, Museveni said that unless it was a criminal case, Uganda normally asked such people to move to a third country. He confirmed that this had been the case with Sebarenzi, who is now believed to be in North America. Museveni added that there were no problems in relations with Rwanda, despite last year’s fighting between the two countries’ armies in the DRC town of Kisangani.