“How could you send entyabire (Kinyankole word for poisonous mushroom) to Parliament to represent you? You used your votes wrongly because your MP is anti-development” – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (26.01.2005).
The long term Member of Parliament Abdu Katuntu (Bugweri MP) have now officially become a part of the National Resistance Movement (NRM). For years his been lingering around the NRM and affiliates. Now it is official that the Former for Democratic Change (FDC) MP has become a NRM stooge too.
This period and until the General Elections of 2021. The MP became Independent after losing it the Primary Elections. That’s when he stood up as an independent and won. Now he has turned completely from FDC to Independent to the NRM. That’s who he is and no one is shocked or in awe.
We know that in the previous term that the Speaker Rebecca Kadaga saved him from total humiliation and kept him in office. Because the FDC had wanted to reshuffle him, but Kadaga kept him at bay. That’s a signal of where he was going. When the handlers and the powerful of the ruling regime keeps you close.
That’s when you know he doesn’t serve the interests of the opposition. His just one of them. Who uses the opposition banners and parties as a way of getting into position. He used the FDC for years, because it helped him. When they dismissed him and sought for fresher blood. He won on recognition and being the incumbent.
Now he will return to 2026 election and be in yellow. He will be a Movement aspirant and run as a NRM MP. That’s who he has become, and it shows. The morality and ethics of it doesn’t matter to the man. His just in it to eat and get a paycheck.
We saw another person when we saw how he handled the Presidential Handshake and the COSASE committee. It was a reason why the state kept him and didn’t want the FDC to change him. He served a purpose and now he has returned to that party.
He only went independent because he lost from within. Meanwhile he hasn’t challenged or gone after the government ever since. His now one of them and a former blue going yellow. One of many who has done this before him. They only used the FDC as a place of origin and ability to get into office. Down the road he turned from that home and has sought after more greener pastures. That he has found and now he will dine with the kings.
That’s why Katuntu has left. He is now a man of the ruling regime and don’t mind what it entails. He just want his meal-ticket and baseline for lavish living. This is why he becomes a yellow. That’s who he is and everyone should know now.
His not a poisonous mushroom anymore, but he is another compromised cadre who sold out. Peace.
MinBane 