The UPDF spokesperson, Lt Col Paddy Ankunda

KAMPALA. The army has said a joint security operation with police and intelligence agencies last Friday was not targeting Supreme Security Limited, a company owned by Ms Nina Mbabazi, the daughter of the former premier Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi.
The UPDF spokesperson, Lt Col Paddy Ankunda told Daily Monitor it was an “on-spot assessment” of all private security firms in Kampala.
Lt Col Ankunda said the operation ordered by the Joint Operations Command had by last Friday covered 15 private security companies and the operation would continue as a result of increased “security concern”.
“The Joint Operations Command passed a resolution to do assessment of all security companies and if one of them belongs to her, it was a coincidence,” Lt Col Ankunda said.
Joint Operations Command is a national security structure that combines UPDF, Police, Internal Security Organisation, External Security Organisation and Prisons.
Pictures of military police at the gate of Supreme Security Limited circulated on social media over the weekend with several commentators, claiming the raid was a siege.
Lt Col Ankunda said the operation looks at how the private security firms store their guns, their armoury and serviceability of the guns.
However, Nina’s sister, Ms Rachel Mbabazi, said the manner in which the operation was conducted on her sister’s office in Kamwokya, a city suburb, was “scary.”
“They were asking workers how and where they keep guns. How they recruit guards. Everybody in office was panicking. It felt a bit uneasy. I think they should have done it better,” Rachel Mbabazi said. It is not clear which other offices of private security firms were searched in Kampala. At the time of the search, Nina was out of the country