South Sudan: United People’s Alliance (UPA) – Press Statement (16.03.2025)

A look into Museveni’s Kawempe North By-Election Statement

In this piece, I am writing to inform you that an electoral and criminal investigation has started in the Kawempe North by-election. The following allegations have come up: ballot papers stuffing, altering results, destroying ballot boxes in Kazo-Angola, Mbogo Mosque zone, etc., because, apparently, some people did not want those votes to be counted, campaigning at the polling stations, intimidation, violence, etc. The heavy deployment of security forces may have stopped mass violence, but it could not stop these micro crimes that should have been managed by the election officials” (Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, 16.03.2025).

The old man with the hat couldn’t let this one slide. I don’t have it in him and he cannot let this one go. We knew there was something up when the National Resistance Movement – Central Executive Committee released their resolutions and demanded an investigation and audit of the Kawempe North By-Election. Now the President, His Excellency is taking it further. This is just bonkers at this point.

The State House and the NRM has to self reflect. They need to re-assess themselves and how they conduct themselves. The way and the manner of how the state operates during the campaigns, the nomination days and the polls itself. They are making their own and showing their true character. The President cannot lie and deceive in 2025. It might have worked in the 1980s and less coverage of civilians, but now we all get the memos, the viral footage and the pictures that speaks loud and clear.

The NRM people must not involve themselves in cheating by saying that the opposition is doing it, they must also do it. Work to crush that disenfranchisement of the Ugandan people. That is why the NRM went to the bush” (Museveni, 16.03.2025).

The delusion, the arrogance and the entitlement of writing this is just another level. If the Young Yoweri had seen the Kawempe North By-Election. He would have returned to the BUSH. Heck, he went to fight in the bush, because of the way he claimed the Uganda Peoples’ Congress (UPC) was running it in 1980. The same sort of state machinery and securing the control of nation. That’s what the NRM does and perfected over the years. His talking like we don’t see how the RDCs, UPF, UPDF, SFC, JATT and everyone else works in coordination to secure a NRM Victory. Like what sort of spell is the President under? Does he think we don’t know the game of pre-ticking ballots and ballot stuffing? Please, step your game up if your going to lie at me. As a seasoned politician. You should be better at it. This isn’t it!

You have been inviting the NRM to attend to you. We shall do exactly that. The mistakes the soldiers may do could be on account of preparing for those non-lethal roles when they are diverted from their work of fighting on account of indiscipline of some actors. These are the criminal mistakes of the opposition. However, there are also organizational mistakes on the NRM side, especially not working collectively and reaching the Wanainchi. Investigations will show us who destroyed the ballot paper boxes at Kazo-Angola, Mbogo centre, etc. and why” (Museveni, 16.03.2025).

The NRM wasn’t invited to Kawempe or the By-Election, no it took over it and used the state machinery to attack the opposition. The media personnel was hurt, civilians was captured, tortured and detained. There was Members of Parliament who was arrested, local activists too and such. There was a massive military presence and that wasn’t to stop mass-uprising or demonstrations. No, it was to incite fear and stifle the tracks of the opposition from assembling and campaigning. So, the mistakes was to think that was a winning strategy. That the levels of fear and intimidation stopped people from voting against the regime. Alas, therein is the problem that the President and the NRM cannot stomach or handle. They can be gun-slinging and use weaponry to muffle citizens, but it cannot understand that it is not the answer. It doesn’t solve the needs of the people and neither is it helping them. That doesn’t build trust, care or concern of their behalf. Instead the NRM doesn’t come as an invited guest to Kawempe. No, the NRM came as an invader and as an aggressor. Has the President ever thought about that? No, neither he or his fellow comrades has never ever consider the implications of such moves. Because they are on the other side of the guns and they are not looking at without being armed.

If the NRM starts investigating it all. The bribes, the pre-ticked ballots and the whole gameplay of state machinery should come into play. There are enough witnesses and proof of soldiers partaking in it. There are enough proof of what went down. Even when the authorities and the state tried to send the media packing. There is enough tapes and such to show what went down. The state can try to rewrite history here, but its clear. They want to send a message, but it is failing. Because all of it is futile.

The NRM was never scheduled to win this one. There was no signs of it. Neither was the stars aligned for miracle either. They could only win if the rigging has succeeded and the will of the people had allowed for it to happen. Alas, that’s what the NRM is missing. The NRM is missing the people. The people aren’t here for them. The people don’t trust the NRM and why should they?

First they come with guns, then they come with porkies and now they want to investigate the ones who came with the guns? They want to investigate themselves and why they couldn’t successfully rig the election? Seriously, is that what the NRM has become?

Is this what the President fought for and went for the BUSH for? Is this why the skulls of Luweero died en-mass? When the President invokes the bush. We are allowed to question it, aye? He wents to use the Mecca, let’s take it to Mecca then. Please, the President should know better, but clearly his vanity and arrogance are more important than the truth or being able to read the room. Peace.

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Opinion: Mpuuga cannot catch a break

Museveni deceived our parents, promising to stay in power for only four years, but it’s been 40 years now. It seems they missed the zero on the four” – Mathias Mpuuga MP, (14.03.2025).

Yesterday, at the Democratic Alliance, we unveiled our coordinators who will take the lead in mobilising the country to spread our agenda. Our primary focus is on pushing for constitutional and electoral reforms as well as a national transition. The violence and all manner of intimidation witnessed during the just concluded by-elections in Kawempe North is strong enough to remind us of urgent need for MEANINGFUL reforms the next general elections. Part of the duty of our coordinators is to go and rally the nation to demand these reforms” (Mathias Mpuuga, 15.03.2025).

The former Leader of Opposition and former acknowledge coordinator in Activists for Change, the Members of Parliament for the Democratic Party (DP) and in this term the National Unity Platform (NUP). That man is now on his quest, his on the mission to create his own party and agenda. Now he wants to be the ringleader and the one to aspire to. That’s why he has created his Democratic Alliance, which for many is “coined” as the Dealers Alliance. I don’t blame it… because it lacks credit and trustworthy to be something else.

Mathias Mpuuga is on a lonely mission. Even if his able to get more people behind him and his banner. Not like his a beloved character or has the charisma of a populist. Neither does he have the backbone or the understanding of the sentiment surrounding him.

Mpuuga is cherry-picking all the hot-slogans and favourable policies. Meanwhile, he will have no mandate or even an organization to bring it forward. That’s why everyone was celebrating the NUP and their win in the By-Election yesterday. Very few was noticing or concerned about the launch that Mpuuga had. This is compelling, because if the DA mattered. The stakes would be there and the headlines would write themselves.

Alas, therein is the problem. Mpuuga isn’t that fella. He clearly isn’t as clever or savvy as he wants to be. Neither is he astonishing organizer or the man who can whip up a storm. That has just unravelled and this is why he has such stalwarts, and other random journeymen joining his team.

This one is falling flat and the Elections Road Map isn’t even released. Just like the launch of the DA and the agreement with Alien Skin. It is all a mockery of an attempt. He needs more fanfare and more hope. It is just desperation and the need for relevancy. Neither is helpful and in the long run… it is just tiring and a marathon he cannot handle. He will run and run, but never ever have the ability to finish. Mpuuga will be tired, fatigued and be out of breathe. That’s what is coming his way and he should know it.

This is a path of self-destruction and it is so apparent. A man who couldn’t be transparent and be accountable for his actions. Are running as a reformer and a game-changer, but he couldn’t even play the game that he was a part of already. That’s why he jumped ship and tried yet another gig to re-elected. This is the gist of it all and the ones running with him. They will regret using and spending time with this. It is a foolish enterprise and bound to end in failure.

Mpuuga isn’t the man and we can all see it for what it is. Peace.

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Opinion: The NRM CEC needs some self reflection

Today the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Central Executive Committee (CEC) delivered their verdict after becoming second and losing the Kawempe North By-Election. The striking matter is that the NRM acts like its an outside force and not the government itself. As they expect the Electoral Commission to investigate and audit the election. That’s really telling, as we haven’t seen how the state operated and acting during the whole proceedings.

The NRM should sit this one out. They already used all the tricks of the book. They used the whole state machinery and was prepared to rig the election. They just waited for the thumbs up and make it happen. There was every bits and pieces in action for one purpose only. So, it is rich that the call the EC out and wants this now.

The NRM rejects the results too and also says it will legally challenge it. If it does all of this… do they want the courts to see the videos, pictures and the altered return forms? What do they want to provide of evidence? What stories doest the NRM want to tell?

Do the NRM wants the stories of the NUP activists arrested, the double arrests of the NUP candidate and use of JATT to stop the NUP from properly campaigning? Do the NRM wants the courts to look into the soldiers, special forces command and the soldiers intimidating during the polls?

What does the NRM wants to prove? That they didn’t block Pearl FM from providing proof of the rigging for the NRM. Do the NRM wants the proof of how they tried to make the Kawempe North into a war-zone and harassed the media into darkness. So, that the polling agents and others was left without media having oversight of the activity during the polls. What sort of evidence does the NRM wants to provide courts?

Nothing that happened was in favour of the opposition or the NUP. If the blood, torture, arrests, detained civilians and use of NRM or state operatives for self-serving interests. These was all parts in the play and we know about it. The state even used cars without registration plates and such too. There was nothing this state didn’t do to outsmart and outwit their own electorate. Still, they voted in defiance and in protest of state itself.

The NRM CEC don’t want this all portrayed in the courts. What is there to gain and what does the NRM win? They have already caused the pain, plights and suffering… just over a seat and a ballot. Still, they couldn’t cause enough harm and damage to stop the people from standing up for themselves. That’s just what should worry the state and the NRM itself.

If there are any characters left with some sort of clear mind in the NRM CEC. They would reflect on the matter and reasons for the fall in the Kawempe North By-Election. There are so many reasons for why they lost. There is not only the knowledge of the historical pattern of voters voting for opposition. Secondly, why would the people, trust the party who orders soldiers to streets to beat them up? Seriously, it is such an easy argument and everyone can digest that.

Nevertheless, that is just to deep and to hard for the NRM to comprehend. Maybe their delusion and lack of realism is hitting in. They are just living in their own bubble and cannot understand the real sentiment out there. That’s why they think gun-slinging on unarmed civilian is the righteous act to get their will done. This is what we are seeing and hearing. It is infuriating and insulting the people who are just trying to live life. Peace.

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