
““If we punish all the corrupt, whom shall we work with?” – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (06.06.2024).
Here we go again…
Another year, another shilling. Aye?
President Yoweri Tibuhurwa Kaguta Museveni coming with lectures of historical matters. Where he speaks of his generational leaders, which he happened to meet at a long forgotten age. At a speech and ceremony that is more pompous and more procedural than anything. With the withering years. The gravitas and the worthy of it falls apart too. Because, nothing is legit or sincere about it.
The President comes with statistics, records and numbers, which makes everything sounds supreme. While the citizen doesn’t feel that way. Neither is there anywhere near any sort of flimsy hope that he will deliver anything substantial. The mood is grim and the tiredness of the regime is overshadowing it. The lies are in the open and the truth isn’t what the President is saying. His speaking poetically about the past and about pan-africanism, but his actions speaks otherwise; and we know it…
The main thing about the speech this year is the Parliament Exhibition and the open Grand Corruption of his government. The President comes with no substantial answer or response to it. Just more empty words and word-salads that isn’t worthy of a articulate response. Just more of the same hogwash and empty threats, which is worthless in the grand scheme of things. We know the corrupt in his proximity gets of the hook anyway and lives to see another day. So, who is he kidding here?
“I have been hearing stories that there is a racket from the Ministry of Finance to Parliament. I have been hearing but now I have proof. They work with accounting officers from different ministries to come to parliament to ask for certain funds and then they share the money. For sure the corrupt don’t know how strong we are, we are patient but if you make a mistake, you will see”(Museveni, 06.06.2024)
“Public servants and political leaders that steal Government money are corrupt and will be crushed. There are, however, other actors, that get bribes from foreigners to work for foreign interests. These are both corrupt and traitors and we are monitoring their activities. If they do not stop; and with evidence, we shall deal with them. As part of fighting corruption, it is crucial to save the amateurish political actors who come into politics without knowing that leading people does not mean carrying them on your head. It means that you show them the way. The situation of the inexperienced, careerist minded leaders who do not listen to the advice of the NRM, is further complicated by the blood thirsty parasites in the form of the unregulated money lenders who charge extortionate interest rates from these desperate political actors when they come to borrow money for unuseful expenditures” (Museveni, 06.06.2024).
He can act like we don’t know. The President acts like the public don’t know or see how he operates from the State House. This is his government and the manners of how he runs his organization. It is his appointees and people he has entrusted with offices. They are all surrounding him and he accepts this sort of behaviour. He thrives in it and the misuse of office is common practice. Therefore, we know the gist and the deal.
President Museveni cannot combat something that gives him leverage and the upper-hand on his cronies. He uses their greed and nepotism for his advantage, as he prolongs his stay in office. While he has corrupt officials that he can grease the wheels for and get loyalty from. They are willing to serve him because he ensures that they can eat. Regardless of the method or way they did it. As long as everyone is happy and gets their cut.
That’s why the State of the Nation in 2024 was useless. He didn’t really address anything sincere. We have heard some parts of this speech before and its tiring. Peace.










