Opinion: Mwenda’s fallacies in regard to the Besigye case

“I had restrained myself from speaking or writing about Dr. Kizza Besigye’s hunger strike and the campaign to present him as a victim of a mean and cruel dictator. I am compelled to break my silence in large part because I think Besigye’s sympathisers are hypocrites and delusional. I just saw them in court chanting that President Yoweri Museveni will die and his son, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, will cry. Clearly, they know what Besigye was/is plotting. Yet they are cowards not willing to stand for their beliefs even if it means going to jail or being killed for them” (Andrew Mwenda – ‘The Last Word: On Besigye’s hunger strike’, 21.02.2025).

Akon back in the day sang a song “Sorry, Put the Blame on Me” and it’s time that this sort of statement comes from Andrew Mwenda. We know what Mwenda is in 2025. His a government hack and a propagandist.

Well, we know Mwenda hates Besigye and everything he stands for. The principled man as Besigye is in stark contrast to himself who can be bought and used by the regime. We have seen how his mind has changed and what Mwenda has become. Now we are just seeing what Mwenda is spewing of rhetoric and ideals. Therefore, Andrew is a lost cause and been so for years.

Andrew Mwenda is saying the allegations and criminal conspiracy is true. Meanwhile, the courts and the state prosecution have come with no proof, evidence or witnesses proving it. That’s why Mwenda’s implications are flawed. Because he is criminalizing Besigye before anything is proven in the courts. That’s just shows what sort of journalism his committed too. As if, the state haven’t charged Besigye with treason before and nothing come out of it. Not like the state haven’t arrested and detained him with no case ending in sentencing or possible permissible incarceration. Therefore, someone of Mwenda’s stature should know this, but instead sprints to the narrative of the state.

Just read this nonsense…

“Now that is political courage – the ability to stand for one’s beliefs no matter the consequences. But Besigye is a coward who is not willing to stick his neck out for his beliefs. Instead, he wants to hide behind legal procedures to obscure his conspiracy. If Museveni was the devil Besigye sympathisers claim he is, he would not have abducted Besigye from Kenya and brought him before the courts. Instead, he would have done to Besigye what Besigye was plotting to do to him: kill him in Kenya. Besigye supporters know, intuitively, that Museveni is humane, respects peoples’ rights and follows due process. That is why they have been using courts to shield their man from the political consequences of his decisions” (Mwenda, 21.02.2025).

He has already called fans or supporters of Besigye “die-hards” or “hoodlums”, even “radical extremists” so he has vilified the opposition supporters in general. Now he says there is lack of political courage from the ones he has said is totally wrong for years. If he wasn’t worried about these people or the ones associated with Besigye he wouldn’t have called them these names.

Secondly, has Mwenda seen how the government and authorities have acted lately? Has Mwenda seen how the state is acting towards the government through the years? I believe that Mwenda is self-medicated or become blind. His mind has become numb, and he looks away from the actions of the state. Just to be able to defend the injustice, impunity and misuse of force against civilians. Therefore, Mwenda should re-assess himself, but we know that’s too much to ask.

We know he has inner hatred of Besigye and Bobi Wine. He is just proving it here, as his on the slippery slope of accepting the devious parts of government. Mwenda rather wants to be on the side of the butchers, then on the activists and the civilians fighting for a justice and true liberation. Alas, that is too much to ask… Andrew won’t need that, as his paid in full and doesn’t need listen to the pleas of the nation. Peace.