It's a Waste of Time to Spy on Uganda - President Museveni

President Yoweri Museveni has said that it is a waste of time for anyone to spend their resources spying on Uganda.

“It is a waste of time….. Spying to do what? … 'If I have secrets, you will not know because the secrets are in my head, they are not on microphone," Mr Museveni told France 24 in an interview.

A recent global reporting investigation, the Pegasus Project, published by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) indicated that Rwanda used Israel software, Pegasus to spy on several top ranking Ugandan government officials.

In the report it was said that the Kigali establishment spied on former Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda and former Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa among others.

When asked about the closed border between Rwanda and Uganda, the Ugandan leader told FRANCE 24's Marc Perelman to ask the person who closed the border.

“You go and ask the one who closed the border. I am not the one who closed the border. We had discussions long ago with mediation of Angola some years ago, I have not seen the border being opened,” he said.

Meanwhile, President Museveni condemned Sunday's coup d’état in Guinea, describing it as "a step backwards". The Ugandan president said the coup leaders should face sanctions and "get out".

Asked about the Afghan crisis, Museveni said Uganda had agreed to temporarily resettle some 2000 Afghans on its soil at the behest of the US government, brushing aside concerns that they might be a security threat. He added that he felt the US had erred in Afghanistan by trying to "fight other people's wars".

Turning back to Africa, he warned that he might pull Ugandan troops out of Somalia amid infighting between that country's leaders, something he described as "political AIDS".

Museveni noted that a jihadist group that took control of an oil-rich area in northern Mozambique a few months ago was tied to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan Islamist group operating in eastern DR Congo. He announced that he is ready to intervene militarily in that region against the ADF and is waiting for approval from DR Congo before going ahead.