KAMPALA – The director general of the Internal Security Organisation (ISO), Col. Frank Kaka Bagyenda has appealed to security chiefs from the Eastern Africa countries to share intelligence information if they are to fight criminality in the region.
Kaka said even during pre-colonial times, states used to share information, which enabled them to effectively deal with threats to peace and security although this was undermined in the colonial period.
Kaka was speaking at the closing of a two-day workshop for intelligence chiefs under their umbrella organisation, Committee of Intelligence and Security Services of Africa (CISSA), where he represented security minister Gen. Elly Tumwine.
“Working together through joint operations, we can begin turning around challenges into opportunities,” Kaka told the participants, who included director generals from 12 member states in the region.
He stressed that beyond just sharing information, they needed to put their collective efforts together to address the common foe, through sharing experiences that make them better in the long-run.
“The government of Uganda takes seriously all matters pertaining to integration and more so those geared towards Pan-Africanism,” Kaka said.
He told the CISSA leadership that Uganda would always be available to give assistance aimed at enabling the organisation achieve its objectives.
According to Kaka, Eastern Africa and the continent in general were facing a paradox with the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in DR Congo, Al Shabaab in Somalia and Boko Haram in the Sahel.