
“Don’t be tempted to leave Uganda to spend your early years of strength and productivity developing other countries at the expense of your country….. those countries we admire and would give anything to live in were built by their citizens through years of hard work and sacrifice. Our own homeland deserves no less determination” – Janet Museveni (25.09.2024).
“In February 1981; Janet Museveni and her children re-located to Nairobi, Kenya, where they lived with family friends until 1983. In 1983, they moved to Gothenburg, Sweden, and stayed there until May 1986, four months after Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Army had seized power in Kampala” (Team Yoweri 24/7, 24.07.2020).
Yes, the 1980s was different and yes her situation was vastly different than for the youths today. The generation that decides to leave and find greener pastures on the outside of the Republic. Who can blame them?
This is the system and the administration that has been in control since January 1986. The President and his men are the reason for people leaving. They haven’t created markets, functioning society or even policies that are beneficial for the citizens. That’s why they are leaving and trying to find better options elsewhere. It is the failure of the state to provide, ensure and secure the livelihood of its citizens. That’s why they are going elsewhere and migrating.
The First Lady and Minister of Education should understand this sentiment, as her and her kids all went into exile. The ones going to exile today is because of her husband and the family reign over the last few decades. That’s because of her husband and his tyranny. This is why people are leaving and a concept that the First Lady cannot comprehend.
She is living in a delusion, because of the wealth and the entitlement she has over decades of spoils. The President and herself have been living lavish. They have built themselves an empire over the capture of the state. That’s what they have been busy doing and now they cannot accept that people are left behind as a consequence of that.
Janet Museveni should look into herself and wonder why she left into exile in the first place. She should think and reminisce about the past. That would be healthy for her and the state of mind she could have. Especially, when she is busy trying to lecture people. The people who her and her husband’s administration has left behind. They are the ones that haven’t made it possible or viable to work within the Republic. That’s the bleak reality and the First Lady should understand this. However, she rather be arrogant and obnoxious about it.
There is a need for the First Lady to reflect on why she went to Tanzania, Kenya and Sweden herself. She should be the one that understand the implications and the need to leave. As she did that for her own safety and her family. Now others are doing the same for similar reasons. Now it isn’t guerrilla warfare, but a system built for a chosen elite and not the public at large. That’s why people are leaving and we cannot blame them.
This is the fault of the system and the ones in charge. Janet is part of the problem and so is her husband. The family which went into exile are now responsible for others doing the same. Now they are in power, and they are creating the same vacuum and reasoning to let other people flee the Republic too. That’s tragic, but the truth, nevertheless. Peace.






“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).


