NRM Primaries: 60% of the 2026 Elections Prepared…

I brought NRM in LANGO when everyone hated it. Now that NRM is the only way, they want to roll me out. People of Lango should respect me like the way West Nile is doing to Gen Moses Ali” – Sam Engola (17.07.2025).

Some people will celebrate tonight. Others will mourn. Plenty is scorned and some are distraught. The ones who didn’t see it coming. They haven’t seen this movie before or they have been oblivious to the state of affairs. The unopposed are running the game and the powerful are rigging it. There is no second chance and the losers are the ones out of favours.

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) Primaries haven’t been peaceful, fair or free, as long as I can remember. Neither was these. The reality is that in so many counties, districts and sub-counties, these elections are the security for the General Election. If you become the flagbearer of the NRM. Then you are most likely heading to Parliament or elected to an Office. Which means the burden and the incentives are so high. The price of losing is so vast and then your most likely never entering the halls or chambers of power. Therefore, the candidates and their allies are willing to trade shots, take aim and use force to intimidate to achieve their objective. We have seen it before and we are seeing it again.

The pre-ticket ballots, stuffed boxes, the blocked registrars and whatnot is common coincidence too. The NRM cannot contain itself or it’s mission. The party is just showing it’s mechanics and how it operates. If you believe things will be better in 2026. You are wrong. The violence and the usage of thugs or militias in favour of candidate in party primary will only escalate in the general. That’s why this election will mirror the one to come and it’s a warning.

This is brothers in the same house fighting. How do you think it will be done against their neighbour or mortal enemy for that matter? If they can use rigging, guns and ammo against a fellow brother of the same cloth. What will they do against someone who opposes them and deem them unfit? Seriously, imagine and you can see a grim picture.

That’s why I don’t care to write the old men who is re-elected and the elite candidates that are returning. Neither the losses of ministers and telling who was unopposed. Because, the time it matters is in 2026 and around 60% of these will get into Parliament in the General. Also, plenty of others will get into offices around the nation too. That’s why the reality is so bleak.

We are just seeing the preparation and the securing the mandate of total supremacy ahead of the 2026. This is just ensuring the majority and triggering the normalcy of the NRM regime. What went down is nothing new and we have seen this before.

So, be advised and take notes. The ills of the primaries will only be so much more in the general. That’s when the stakes are higher. When lives are taken in the primaries. You can double or triple that in the general. That’s just how they do and what they are willing to do. This is the price of the “democracy” that Museveni and the NRM ushered in. Therefore, don’t rest and think of this as over. No, this is the beginning of the 2026 elections and the brutality will only escalate from here. The impunity and ruthless behaviour will only be more visible as the days are closing in. Peace.

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Opinion: Eating pilau won’t save your career

At times it seems like someone needs to take advice, assess their state of mind and think straight to get ahead. All of those things must have gotten lost on Mubarak Munyagwa who isn’t getting anywhere.

Yes, the former Member of Parliament launched his Common’s Man Party and ate Pilau for anyone to see. He ate in unity and bashed in glory of the launch of the new party. The party that was known as the Uganda Economic Party (UEP) is rebranded and has new leadership ahead of the General Elections of 2026. That isn’t anything new, but is a sign of the times.

Munyagwa maybe has a life-line and has a briefcase party to enlarge his pockets. However, he can easily become a punchline and not as significant as he wants to be. Because there is no difference between him and the likes of Kabuleta. They are both running their parties, but no one will really care. They could just be the Michael Mabikke’s of this world. Like that’s where Munyagwa is heading and he seems to not know it himself.

Munyagwa is getting his own butter and buttering his own bread now. That is what is shown now. Even as his eating rice on a silver platter in front of everyone. This is maybe a sign of his goal. That he wants to eat and that’s it’s his turn. Regardless, that’s not his choice or his decision. The ones surrounding him will tell their tales as well. Since we all know the drill and the reasons for their decisions. It isn’t about the policies or political platform, but more about what is served on the platter.

This party starting as a joke and with the butt of the joke isn’t anything better. For someone who lost to the National Unity Platform (NUP) in the last election. He should know the pain and the indifference of what he used to do.

Now his starting this party and it seems futile, as it’s only a launching pad for his political career. As he just needs to be seen as a kingmaker and someone who believes he can achieve the impossible. That’s what it looks like.

Munyagwa is bound to fail and tragically too. Just like the younglings who suddenly aims for the highest office. They are just punchlines and not sincere competition. Neither does they have the gravitas or the character to gain popularity either. That’s what is missing here too.

This here is just a mockery of an attempt. A bunch of foolery and a waste of good rice. The pilau deserved better and the former MP should have acknowledged his own short-comings. Instead he wants the glory and the envelopes. Peace.

Recent UN Experts Report states that Kigali wanted to use the M23 to create an independent Kivu Republic

The economic objective of the minerals is part of the plan; the other objective is to help the M23 win the war, and then they’re going to do what they did in South Sudan and declare the Kivus an independent state. The President said that. Remember history, this whole area used to belong to Rwanda (…)” (Source: RDF officer deployed in Eastern DRC) – (Final report of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, June 2025).

This here should be compelling and be a bigger storyline, as this is a neighbour and a sovereign state trying to use a proxy-war to change the territories of the neighbour, and create the plot of independence of two its provinces. That story should be told and it’s say a lot about the ambitions in Kigali and Rwanda. As it believes it has the capacity and the ability to make it happen in the Democratic Republic of Congo. That should be the word and a lesson, as it shows the sinister plot beneath it all and why they are doing it.

Just continue to read this:

The idea was to help the M23 and, after recovering the territory, Rwanda was going to lobby the United Nations and argue that this part of the country should at least be given independence. It’s a line that goes back a long way, even to when James Kabarebe was still on the general staff. Kagame says this every time he speaks to the military, to indoctrinate them and say that this part of Rwanda has been taken over (…) The objective was to fight and defeat the FARDC; then the government would be forced to negotiate; and then Kagame could emerge as a negotiator and put conditions on the table (…) For the moment, they have changed their strategy; their objective is no longer Kinshasa, but North and South Kivu (…) In South Kivu, they also started to create conflicts between the Banyamulenge community and other communities; this was to create disorder so that the RDF could go and help (…). It’s the same thing for South Kivu: they don’t necessarily want to take the big towns, but rather all the villages next door to inculcate the ideology that this part belonged to the neighbor (…) Their mission was to come and fight here and take territory with natural resources, hold the place, push the DRC Government into negotiations until the eastern part was split up. This is Kagame’s doing.” (Source: RDF officer deployed in Eastern DRC) – (Final report of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, June 2025).

If you ever believed in the narratives and stories from Kigali. This here is telling, as the sentiments has been spread and like wildfire. I myself remember reading that the M23 was the liberators and the ones freeing the Kivu’s from the looters, pillage and complete destruction of society. They were coming in “peace” and for helping the population. Alas, that was part of the plot and the plan from the on-set. To sell a story and make the M23 more noble and more just in their mission.

These sources to the UN Group of Experts are just telling a grander scheme, which shouldn’t be left unnoticed, as this tells what the Kigali is willing to do and how it wages war with a proxy. They aren’t just partaking in illegal trading of minerals and occupying territories of another sovereign. No, they intend to create a justification and take away the authority or the statehood of the provinces, which they are using a proxy war as a tool for its “independence”. The people are becoming pawns and used as a tool for the will of the President of Rwanda. That’s what it boils down to and he wanted it too happen.

Everyone should see this and understand this. That’s the game and how he wants to play it. It’s a way of Kagame to carve up the territories and hurt the DRC. He wants to take his share and have a friendly or even a marionette government in the Kivu’s. This should be a wake-up call and a reminder of how deep this conflict is. As this silent war is for something bigger and grander, which is profit and control or minerals, which is enlarging the pockets of the engineers of this war. Peace.

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