Sénégal: Association des Jurisstes Senegalaises (A.J.S) – Communique (10.02.2024)

Opinion: The PLU is for Muhoozi and not for the Republic

The First Son’s launch of the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) it is only made for one reason and one reason only. It is only made for Gen. Muhoozi Kainerubaga. They can call it a “civic organization” and even some said it was made for a “transitional” purpose, which means for after Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

This is the “Project Muhoozi” in the flesh. It isn’t a figment of imagination or an idea. No, the MK Army, the MK Movement and now the Patriotic League of Uganda is all there for one man. That one man being the Senior Presidential Advisor and the First Son. It is all made and prepared for him. Where his minions and the high-ranking officials surrounding him bashes in the glory. That’s all they are doing and making so much noise like it is special.

This is just a step to further prepare Muhoozi for grander things. Just like the foreign envoys trips to Kenya and Rwanda. Make him ready and let him taste the juices of politics. Now this is the organization and the party for 2026. There is nothing else to say about it.

That’s why dozens of National Resistance Movement (NRM) MPs and other cronies like the sold-out MPs from the National Unity Platform (NUP) showed up too. There was several cabinet ministers and officials from the NRM party itself. It is all show of who is who and who are loyal to the First Son. As his party and special purpose vehicle is prepared for the next election.

The ones believing this will be something is naïve. It is too late and we know he has ambitions. This started with the birthday bashes and the sporting events. Then the various formations and yes-men creating organizations to make him look “popular”. Now they are taking it a step further and making him ready for the big league. The puppy now has to show fully flex and what muscle he carries.

The Proclamation itself states clearly that it derives from the NRM. As the same incentives and sloganeering as his father is known for. It is like his copying his fathers homework and calling it his own. Just like the name too, which like UPM has the Patriotic side in it. The generations down and the family still have to use the same rhetoric and moral ambiguity to be selling to the masses. Alas, the people have seen what the father has done and who believes the son will be any better? Seriously?

The son who is a brute, army commander and who has used his role as the Commander of Special Forces Command to torture, arbitrary arrest and kill dissidents. That’s what his been doing and we recognize him for it. His soldiers and troops have been used for evil and not for the common good. That’s why it’s hard to believe that this man will serve the public with care or concern. No, it’s all a bid for him to inherit the Republic and install a pseudo “monarchy” of the Museveni clan. That’s it really and they cannot fool around with it anymore either. We see it and others does too.

The creation of the PLU isn’t for the betterment or purposely created for good governance. No, it is all for Muhoozi and his ego. It is all for his future and his progress. That’s all too it. There is no gold on the other side of the rainbow. No, only a empty refuge of scavengers trying to find their next plate to eat beside the designated leader. That’s all the others are doing and they are bidding to show loyalty, because that is more valuable than intellect. This is proven now and with time all of that will wither. As the center will not hold and the grip will loosen. When that moment strikes. That’s when the house of cards falls, and the “majesty” will lose his crown. Peace.

Sénégal: Groupe Parlementaire Yewwi Askan Wi – Appel a liberation immediate des citoyens arretes dans le cadre des actives de la Campagne electorale en cours pour l’election presidentielle du 25 fevrier 2024 (07.02.2024)

Opinion: Muhoozi is now trying out his father’s scenic route…

“Today I had the honor to unveil our new formation from MK Movement to Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) a civic organization. The PLU will at all time remain non-partisan,  non-denominational and non-sectarian. The future of this country Uganda is indeed bright!” – Michael Mawanda, Igara East MP (07.02.2024)

It is now confirmed, and a proclamation has been released, the Muhoozi Kainerubaga Movement is rebranded and become the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU). The out of the First Son and Senior Presidential Advisor Gen. Muhoozi Kainerubaga has gone from the MK Army – MK Movement and into the Patriotic League of Uganda.

The launch of the PLU is evident that the National Resistance Movement (NRM) is part of it. That’s been evident for so long, as Muhoozi has poached people in the NRM and elected officials from there. As well, as others who can be vocal and be voices that sings his psalms.

While reading the proclamation of the PLU. It is evident that the son is using all the sloganeering of his father’s words of the years as his “reviving patriotism”, “non-partisan” and “non-sectarian”. It is just re-amping the known traits of his father. This isn’t even trying, but photo-copying his fathers work and calling it his own.

What is striking is that the MK Movement which is rebranded is re-organized to become the PLU. That’s to sound grand and bigger than life. However, it is just using familiar words and trying to make things supreme.

While the son is following the sins of his father, as in 1980 Yoweri Museveni ran as a Presidential Candidate for the Uganda Patriotic Movement (UPM) and now his son has his PLU. They are both “patriotic” and using the same pattern of existence.

The ones believing this is a revolutionary thing. No, this is just finalization of “Project Muhoozi” and the succession of Yoweri. That’s all it is and the whole apparatus of the state is in action. This is why MPs and MK Movement was filled with high-ranking officials from the state. They are all gearing things up.

The PLU is now a civic organization, but we know this is a political move. It is to ensure and give way for Muhoozi. The ones believing this for the betterment of the Republic. No, this is an organization to make Muhoozi relevant and let him play around as a “voice of reason”.

That’s all it is… and it is so obvious. The usage of funds and ability to do this is just showing how blatant things are. The son and his handlers have the funds to make such a push. They got the coins and the funding to rebrand, rebuild and restructure itself. Even if it is mere months since the consolidation of the MK Organizations into the MK Movement. Now the same things have become yet another thing.

This is to create bid for 2026 for Muhoozi. He needs a platform and an organization behind him. They are not doing this fun or the enjoyment of high-ranking officials. The 2024 UPM is now official and daddy must have approved it. Muhoozi must know that his father ran on a Patriotic ticket in 1980 and now he does the same in our time. Certainly, there is nothing new under the sun, but we are just getting more “hot air”. Peace.

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Sénégal: President Sall’s coup…

I signed decree no. 2024-106 of February 3, 2024 repealing decree no. 2023-2283 of November 29, 2023 convening the electoral body… I will initiate an open national dialogue, in order to create the conditions for a free, transparent and inclusive election in a peaceful and reconciled Senegal” – President Macky Sall (03.02.2024)

Today in Dakar, as the campaigns and everything was gearing up for the 25th February 2024 elections. That is now put on hold, as the President is repealing a decree putting forward the stipulations of holding an election. In that election, Sall isn’t a supposed candidate and his supposed to have an heir there. However, certainly his trying to configure a way to stay in office now.

The Senegalese people shouldn’t be shocked or in awe. As Sonko and others are behind bars ahead of the polls. There is little signs of freedom, liberation or anything sincere from the regime of Sall. It is just further escalation and to ensure him more time in office. That’s the gig here and this is why he does it.

We know the African Union and ECOWAS won’t do much about this. As Sall is one of them and are an asset there. This is the sort of behaviour you get away with, as it is a constitutional or political coup to stay in office. However, if Sall used the army and was suddenly a general taking over Dakar. We know the AU and ECOWAS would come knocking. Nevertheless, in this regard he will walk softly.

We shouldn’t expect much from Paris or France, as they have an ally and a person of interest in Dakar. For French interests, they need a guy like Sall in office and they know he will not challenge the former colonizer. No, he will praise them and be their man. That’s who he is and this is why Paris won’t say much about what happened today either. Because, they are having someone they trust in office and they don’t mind what he does to be in power.

Sall is now ensuring himself more time. He is suspending the elections and by doing so in all practicality is a putsch. The President didn’t need to fire a weapon, neither did he need to use force, but only use his power as the Executive and Head of State. That’s all he needed and with his power he could execute it with ease. Neither does he has to be afraid of a rebellion or a revolution.

No, he thinks he can rule supreme without any consequences. That he can violate the constitution all on his own whims. This is what his doing and willingly so. It doesn’t look that well planned either, as the timing is horrific… and just mere weeks before the polls. Therefore, the set-back and the switch is just showing his big-man syndrome.

It is bad enough that Sonko is behind bars and not eligible to be on the ballot. That just shows that the authorities and the ones in-charge isn’t offering a free and fair elections. This is a given by the manner of which the state has gone after Sonko and his party. They are just violating him, because of his popularity. Which is in stark contrast to the dwindling support Sall has himself.

We know Sall fears the will of the people. His afraid of their judgment and their ideas of who to run the nation. As that would most likely not be him. Sall got blood on his hands and victims of his reign is known. Demonstrations has become lethal and the authorities has silenced critics of the state. It has done so with a ruthless force, which brutality has endangered people’s lives. Therefore, with that in mind… Sall might be afraid of his future when he doesn’t have immunity from criminal prosecution. There might be less forgiving head of state’s after him…

Regardless of that, Sall isn’t right by what he has done. He is a tyrant and now staying in office by decree. His a man who is occupying the Presidency and doing so without a legitimate reason. That is only done by self-serving interests and not the will of the people. This is why today was a coup d’etat against the state and done so by the President himself.

President Sall isn’t working for the Senegalese people, but working only for himself. Peace.

Dokolo By-Election: Hereditary politics is the tone of the nation…

“Cecilia Ogwal’s family has fronted her daughter Rosemary Alwoc Ogwal to replace her as Dokolo Woman MP. Alwoc Ogwal has been living in the UK and is not well versed with Dokolo. Her brother however says she has been briefed on the issues and is ready to stand” (News 24/7, 31.01.2024).

“Rosemary Alwoc Ogwal, first born daughter to the late Cecilia Barbara Atim Ogwal and Mzee Lamech Ogwal seek public opinion regarding pending projects the legislature left behind. This was during the Joint Regional council session Dokolo” (94.3 QFM Lira, 31.01.2024).

We have now seen this sort of story play out elsewhere when someone dies in office. This happened with Jacob Oulanyah and others like him. Where the sons are inheriting the offices of their fathers. Now a daughter is running to continue the legacy of her mother. There is no difference here other than the gender.

In Omoro County it was like this in 2022. Oyam North By-Election in 2023 was the same and so was Serere County By-Election in the same year. It was all inherited and family members taking over from the late Members of Parliament. This will be the fourth in this 11th Parliament alone and this practice is going back to 2012 and when Prosvocia Alengot got elected as the MP for Usuk County in Katekwi district. She got the office and the opportunity after her father passed away. Therefore, this is now a practice dating back to this.

While that all be true, and we have seen this as common practice. It surely is questionable and a form of nepotism. As families are now fencing in offices and ensuring their control of elected roles. That’s what they are doing by fielding family members.

This is surely questionable at best, as the citizens and the constituents are tricked to vote out of compassion or based on the narrative that the representative’s family is the righteous to leadership roles. While others in the same districts and counties are left behind. Were only handpicked individuals are getting ahead of the rest. That’s what is happening, and no one is shocked that the family of the late Cecilia Ogwal wants a continuation of her role.

We are just seeing a pattern of behavior and a common practice at this point. Because, if a family member dies in office. The family itself wants to ensure someone within the family takes over from them. This is the justification and pure hereditary politics. Where blood and kin matter more than stature, experience or even character. Heck, pledges or promises, even the so-called ethos of work is gone in the wind. Since the only thing matters is who was your father or mother. Not if you are qualified or not.

This isn’t Rosemary Ogwal’s fault, but she is a part of the same problem as the others. She is picked by family members who wants their family to have this privilege. That is the obvious path here. They want to eat of the plate and ensure their family wealth through representing Dokolo like her mother. Therefore, things are more of the same and someone who inherits office.

There will be other contestants and candidates who will linger. However, if the previous by-elections are telling. Than Rosemary will be first in line and get elected. That we saw in Serere, Oyam North and Omoro. It wouldn’t be out of order, if the same happens in Dokolo. Peace.

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