Opinion: We have seen the Kisozi model before…

How can the Kisozi model be up-scaled to the whole country? Very easy. Every parish in the country is now getting Ushs. 100 million per parish. The soft loans are Ushs. 1 million per one person or homestead. Ushs 1million is able to give you 450 seedlings of coffee to plant in one acre and 50 seedlings of mangoes to plant in one acre. All this progress is before we add other elements, such as irrigation. Production and earnings, will go through the roof” (Yoweri Kaguta Museveni – ‘Kisozi Cabinet Meeting, 24.05.2024)

You can wonder how many times President Museveni has to re-invent the same scheme. It must be boring to re-invent and do the same thing over and over again… expecting a different result as well. That’s insanity, as the President expects a different results when he does the same thing over and over again.

That the President says it is “Very easy” is a blatant lie. The President has tried the seedlings, the micro-finance schemes and others, which haven’t created massive development. Museveni has since the 1990s issued various of schemes without any luck. The citizens haven’t gotten out of poverty or since proper changes in the era of National Resistance Movement (NRM).

The NRM have as a government offered both micro-financing schemes and direct agricultural support mechanisms, which haven’t been sufficiently institutionalized or even prepared for the needs of the citizens or the farmers themselves. That’s why the NAADs, SACCOs, OWC and Emyooga haven’t delivered the fruits. They have been spoilt and only been short-con ahead of the polls and created to gain popularity ahead of elections. Therefore, NRM are only showing up when they need people to tick them on the ballots. After that the whole thing falls like a house of cards.

That’s why hearing the “Kisozi model” is very easily to upscale for the whole country. I beg to differ, as the logistical bottleneck, the lack of institutions and the lack of procedures will be default issues that will destroy any sort of progress in this matter. The state doesn’t have the mechanisms or the machinery to pull it off. They have tried with the PDM, OWC and Emooya. They have proven they don’t have it in them or have the will to do so.

President Museveni can say it is easy and should have been easy. The State should have experience and knowledge of doing so. Nevertheless, we have only seen failure and misuse of office along the way. The state and ministries doesn’t have the capacity of the financial backing to do so. Neither does it has the idea or the plans to make it happen. It looks brilliant on paper, but we know it doesn’t have it or can achieve it.

The dream will become a nightmare. Yes, the public and citizens deserves proper government services. The farmers and the citizens deserves to be helped and get government subsidies to enrich their produce. However, we know it is futile and lacklustre. The state cannot finance or fix the issue. Especially, when it has failed in this manner time and time again. I wish it was differently, but all public reports on these mechanisms or schemes proves my argument.

President Museveni can lie… and say it is “very easy” but we know the truth. If it had been that easy. The NAADs and SACCOs would have solved this. The Emyooga and OWC would have done the trick. However, neither has and we know the drill.

The Kisozi model is nice for propaganda and beautiful pictures, but as an agricultural mechanism or support system. I don’t think it cut it. We have seen this sort of thing before and it only ends up in tears. Peace.

Patriotic League of Uganda letter to Frank Gashumba: “Re: Disciplinary Hearing” (27.05.2024)

Opinion: Ssekikubo MP is taking people for fools…

Clean leadership has been the hallmark of NRM, we fight for accountability and transparency. By the way if you have noted, it is the NRM MPs at the forefront of this, the Opposition are wobbling, they are looking through the windows, in the corridors, they run very fast they aren’t putting their heads high. But for MPs who came to the strong promise to fight corruption and poor service delivery, this is another call, send those MPs to do their duty here, they must come to Parliament to discharge the cardinal duty to hold Parliament to account. But they are hiding, they are busy down there, they are in business” (…) “We need something like 177 signatures and Parliament should be the last place to run away from debate. The accusations against the four commissioners, they will have their day to explain themselves, so why should anybody fear to come out and explain the Shs1.7Bn shared amongst commissioners? Parliament is the bastion of transparency and accountability. Where are those MPs who came to Parliament chest thumping that they were going to stand for accountability and transparency? For one reason or the other, some have refused to come because we had wanted by the end of this week to close the registration – Theodore Ssekikubo MP (27.05.2024).

The censoring of the Parliamentary Commissioners and that makes sense after they made themselves a huge payday with their “Service Award”. The additional envelope for serving as Commissioners are a corrupt act and misuse of office. It is noble to discuss it and disown it. However, Ssekikubo MP is forgetting vital things while petitioning the MPs to sign under this.

The 11th Parliament is a den of thieves. The MPs are pocketing funds themselves and if they are going after the Commissioners. They need to look into other additional funds and budget posts that has been created for the MPs and their various roles of the August House. They got the bag and the hustle continues. The racket of being in office is making them rich and finding avenues to eat while they can.

Ssekikubo MP can attack the Opposition for not petitioning this, but we have seen censoring of Ministers, but it is meaning squat. The only thing that is powerful is a decree or a Presidential Order taking an appointment. The President can clip the wings of a Minister, but the Parliament censoring of someone means absolutely nothing.

Ssekikubo MP comes with a Museveni lie about NRM’s “Clean Leadership” because the corruption scandals and “missing funds” is natural staple in the order of things. The NRM thrives on corruption and graft. Everything is a possible scheme and for someone to figure out a way of getting kickbacks from the operation. Therefore, he takes people for granted and don’t think people don’t know. We all see it and its obvious.

He can speak all these big words which have impact, but we know it is meaningless. Especially when there is nothing to enforce it. There is no will and there is no way. The idea is maybe righteous, but the place of purpose it is not.

We have seen people come and go… the stories of bag deliveries and pay-offs to MPs for votes. There are vehicles, suits and whatever reasoning behind it, but the main idea is paying for service rendered, which the citizens would never get. The shillings are moving between the state and the representatives of the state. That’s the game and Ssekikubo MP knows about this… so these people cannot want or have a will for accountability or transparency. Because then the books of dark secrets and kickbacks could come public. Then the skeletons are out of the closet.

Remember…. “Cash rules everything around me C.R.E.A.M… dollar dollar bill y’all”. Peace.

Bobi Wine and the NUP blocked from crossing the Ssezibwa Bridge towards Palisa district….

We’ve been blocked from Ssezibwa bridge on our way to Pallisa District and now we are on our way back to Kampala” (National Unity Platform, 24.05.2024)

The regime can talk all it wants about freedom, liberty and democracy, but it’s actions are in stark contrast to those words. The leadership of Kampala, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) and President Museveni can act like they have opened up a Multi-Party Democracy. However, whenever there is a threat or someone who sparks popularity. That’s when the authorities and security organizations targets that political campaigning.

Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine and the National Unity Platform (NUP) is on their second part of the Nationwide Mobilization Campaign. Nevertheless, for yet another day and another week it’s getting tear-gassed, road-blocked and meeting hostile law enforcement. NUP Activists being detained and leaders having to consult and negotiate to even be able to move forward. They have to beg to able to gather and meet. Therefore, you know the drill and the gig of the state is up.

The NRM and authorities fears the popularity and the voice of reason in Bobi Wine. They want him silenced and his party too. The ones who stands by his side and who associates with him can be touched too. Therefore, this Nationwide Mobilization is a troublesome affair. The state is using all means and now showing their true nature.

Bobi Wine and his party isn’t allowed to assemble and build their party. As the authorities block it and make it hard to even move. While the NRM says a lot of opposition parties are just working in their headquarters and not outside mobilizing people. It is for a reason why they can’t and cannot do it properly. That’s because there is road-blocks, tear-gas and other obstacles like today.

Today is just evidence of how the NRM operates and what it does to stay in power. The way the authorities does this stop Bobi Wine and his party. That’s all they do and it isn’t funny. It just shows the modus operandi and the impunity that reigns the nation. There is no peace or liberty when it can be so easily taken away from you. Today it’s the NUP and Bobi Wine. Tomorrow it might be someone else in the firing line.

This shows what the state does and how it works. Bobi Wine is just the example of a man trying to make a difference and his not allowed to criss-cross the Republic. That’s the message here and we can all see it. Peace.

Opinion: Museveni’s State House and Office of the President is fiscal in-disciplined….

“President Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa now employs 2700 staff. ln his officer, the President of an impoverished country has increased his staff from 814 to 1350 including recently appointed 350 Assistant Resident District Commissioners. The Resident District Commissioners (RDC) are 145, Deputy Resident District Commissioners are 85 and now they have been joined by Assistant RDCs. There are 747 drivers in President’s officer, 47 stenographer secretaries, 38 officer typist and 90 presidential advisors among other staff. At his residence (State House), the President has increased his workers from about 1000 last financial year to 1304” (…) “The list of people advising our great leader keeps growing. They are now 123 senior and other presidential advisors. And this list excludes new appointments of people like Hon. Vincent Ssempijja, Harriet Ntambazi, Lydia Wanyoto, and Lt. Gen. Elwelu etc. The country is spending Shs 1,154,346,733 in monthly salaries for these advisors who as all ofyou know never gets to advice the President. Some have been given offices and vehicles further raising the cost of public administration. Some of these advisors are on State House pay-roll while others are on President’s Office pay-roll” (…) “At his residence, State House, the President who employs over 1300 workers is served by 356 vehicles including over 70 in his convoy” (Uganda Parliament – Minority Report on Annual Budget FY 2024/25, May 2024).

The Opposition Minority Report on the Annual Budget for Financial Year of 2024/25 is important. We will only look at the wasted expenditure and bloated expenses of the State House and the Office of the President. That’s because President Yoweri Tibuhurwa Kaguta Museveni always speaks of austerity and living within its means. While his hypocritical about his own actions…

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) and President Museveni are so often speaking of how people have to be careful with spending and being wise about their expenditure. Meanwhile the President is spending like a drunk sailor in the ports after a long journey at sea. That’s how this goes, and it shows.

We can wonder why he needs up to 2700 people to work in the two separate entities. The President is bloating his state and bureaucracy. That’s what he does and is misusing public expenditure to pay-off stalwarts and others as Presidential Advisors. If not, he gets them other titles and offices to pay them off. That’s why he has so many employed, but we know his more busy giving people wisdom than getting enlighten by others.

When you see the numbers and cheer size of the State House, you should be flabbergasted. Not that its anything new and has grown over the years. It is a way of keeping people as allies and paying them to be closely associated with him. Instead of having people seeking shelter and livelihood elsewhere.

The President is clever that way, but as a man who speaks of discipline and living within your means. His own actions don’t match his own words over the years. That’s because his words don’t matter, but political capital matters more. Museveni shows his priorities and being fiscal responsible has no value, but his associates is. That’s who he is and how he operates.

The State House and Office of the President is a cesspool of public expenditure and it’s so evident by this Minority Report. Peace.

Opinion: Bobi Wine will get no favours…

It is now evident that the National Unity Platform (NUP) and the leader of it, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine will face more trouble ahead of the 2026 General Elections. The 2021 General Elections is long gone and the trying times are upon it.

The kidnappings and abductions aren’t ceasing. The NUP is facing trouble from within and usage of political leverage to appease the ones who can be bought. The journey men and the ones fleeing other parties are now seeking a new safety net ahead of the next polls.

There is no denying that the “Red Wave” and the People Power Movement was the strongest ahead of the 2021 election. Now it has stalled and the institutionalization of the NUP has stifled it’s tracks. As well as it has suffered the lack of resolve and measures from within. The leadership in Parliament and beyond are questioned. Not that the NUP has power, but it has little to show for it. That’s the problem it has as an opposition and lacking any majority to seal any sort of political victory. Neither has it been effective in stopping or demonstrating against the regime.

This week the old petition against the state in the Uganda Human Rights Commission for blocking him from performing as an artist and holding concerts. It has been withdrawn and the petitioner has stopped it, before the UHRC has worked upon it or even made it a significant case. We have seen this with the stalling tactics of the state in regard to Dr. Kizza Besigye. Therefore, Bobi Wine is just getting similar treatment to him…

There will be no safeguards or help from the authorities. The authorities and the state has him as a target, a threat and they fear his rise to popularity. That’s why the government friendly media targets him and his associates. The ones who are aligned or dares to challenge the status quo. They are the ones who are possible victims and not the ones who can be shielded from trouble.

The Bad Man from Kamwokya will not be met with law enforcement to seek a better tomorrow. No, they will find something on and pin him on the cross. They are there to ensure his demise and end. That’s what’s the goal is and that’s his been able to run away for so long. Is triggering the ones in authority, as his supposed to lose steam and not be able to promote his vision.

Bobi Wine is supposed to fail and make a briefcase party. The NUP was supposed to crash and burn. There was supposed cases against the constitution and how it was organized ahead of the 2021 elections, and some is trying to forge the same narrative ahead of the 2026 polls. They want to hurt and take away the party that is ushering in a new future for the Republic.

That’s why Bobi Wine can never sleep or rest. He has to be awake and ensure the ones around him is people he trusts. Because people will use him and possibly weaken his cause. They will target him and try to play mind games with him. That’s why he must be careful. Nothing is given to him and neither to the NUP party. It is by default and by codes of the state.

The regime has already targeted the red beret, activists, leaders and planned mobilization of the party. There is nothing given to Bobi Wine and his likes. That’s why allies are Court Martialled or possibly taken by drones. There is nothing the state aren’t willing to do to incite fear. That’s why the NUP will continue to fight with their hands tied. While the state and authorities will belittle every move, because that’s what they do. Peace.

National Unity Platform (NUP): Statement to the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) – (20.05.2024)

Opinion: Nyeko MP is now a political target…

The police are holding Makindye East MP Derrick Nyeko and four other suspects for possession of attire similar to that used by the military. According to Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, this followed a daylong siege at several homesteads in Kamwokya, including an office used by the National Unity Platform. He says the suspects are being processed for court and that this operation will extend to other parts of the country” (NTV Uganda, 14.05.2024).

This story has been told before and will be repeated itself in Kampala. The authorities of the state are like this and will create a crime out of thin air to take away the privileges and livelihood from an opposition leader, in this regard the Derrick Nyeko MP is the target and the one who is the suspect.

This is creating allegations and criminal intent without proof, evidence or anything of such sorts. That’s why they are making a pending case and using the opposition MP as a criminal. Even when his only crime is to stand by the Opposition and being part of the National Unity Platform (NUP).

Nyeko MP as a vocal voice within the opposition is certainly a sore thumb for the National Resistance Movement (NRM). They are now using the UPDF Act against him, but not doing the same towards their own. We have seen several of MPs and High Ranking Officials within the regime wearing attire of the UPDF. However, when an opposition leader has or possess something similar he gets in legal jeopardy.

The state comes with a raid and a house-arrest. They tries to intimidate and show their force towards Nyeko MP. We have seen the authorities keeping opposition activists and leaders captive over the red beret. If not they have said so over other attires too, but allows the allies, associates and regime’s own lackeys can wear uniform or whatnot from the same UPDF. Therefore, this law is only applied for the ones who are defiant of the state.

Nyeko MP is just an example… the man is target and they have shown their cards already. Yet another NUP MP is under fire and we all know the drill. Peace.

Opinion: Besigye, you cannot revive the dead…

We are not starting a new party. We have a party and it’s FDC where I am a member and no one can take that away from me. We the members of FDC have a problem and the problem is that our leadership has been bought. We are moving around the country to tell people about what’s happening at the party and remind them to align with the cause” – Dr. Kizza Besigye (13.05.2024).

The dirty money and the fall-out has created two deep fractions within the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC). The FDC Najjanankumbi and FDC Katonga Fractions, which Besigye is well aware off. As the FDC HQ has disassociated itself with Katonga and everything it does. Therefore, his answers to the NBS Television is disappointing.

Dr. Kizza Besigye is a maverick, a seasoned politician and a renegade. His a fighter and a resound leader. His not a random bloke or someone you should disregard. He is smart and has wits. A man who is capable of building structures, even in the midst of turmoil and trouble.

Now he says his not building a new party or new structures. When we know the FDC HQ is smearing his name and his work. The leaders of FDC HQ like Amuriat and Nandala-Mafabi won’t recognize or accept this stake. To disconnect itself from Besigye is weakening the party and taking away huge load of support. That’s something Besigye knows, but formally the FDC HQ are now not in the same organization.

Besigye can mobilize and speak in gatherings, but he cannot do that under the banner of the FDC. He isn’t one of them, as the leaders there have sold their souls and traded the party away. That’s something he knows… and we all know it too.

The good doctor cannot save the dying party. It is on its deathbed and his remedies are not welcomed. Besigye will not win this fight over the soul of the FDC. That is already taken from him and his associates. Therefore, Besigye should focus away from the FDC and fight the cause under another banner. He should do so with a new entity and with his fellow cadres…

No one is as powerful and been a voice of reason as Besigye. Nevertheless, at this very time and knowledge of how things transpire. The FDC is a lost cause. It is outsold and lost its purpose. Besigye can fight the same battle for liberation elsewhere. Just like he could incorporate Reform Agenda in the FDC. Therefore, Besigye should move on.

There is no way of saving Besigye… he can speak of wisdom and be sincere in his wishes to save it. However, it is pointless and a lost cause. Especially, when the likes of Amuriat and Nandala-Mafabi are in-charge of the FDC HQ. Peace.

Uganda: President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni letter to Attorney General Kirowa Kiwanuka – Re: Service Awards to Parliamentary Commissioners (03.05.2024)