Opinion: Bobi Wine hits a nerve…

“But today in Uganda, even if you are as stupid as Museveni’s son. Even if it don’t work. They have their slaves, their slaves are you. I want us to come together end this slavery. I’m saying this because you, because this country belongs to all of us. The man and the women, the young and the old. The rich and the poor. The black and the brown. Very very finally, I want to promise you… my brothers and sisters, that this is not a dream, I am not dreaming, I’m talking about is happening here” – Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine in Soroti (09.11.2024).

We know…

We know…

We know…

Should we say it again or do we need to repeat it. The saga continues and things aren’t changing. Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine is speaking a fact. It has hit a nerve. That we know because the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) has addressed it.

We knew that this would cause a stir. They would say his reckless and uses the wrong language. Nevertheless, his only as diplomatic and sincere as the National Resistance Movement (NRM). They are even harsher… and more disrespectful against their adversaries.

The bleak reality is that Gen. Muhoozi Kainerubaga is part of the system and has enriched himself true it. He is such embedded into the state machinery that laws aren’t in effect. He has a political outfit and a civic pressure group that is become the loudest group of the NRM. That’s while being an army commander and in disregard to the codes of the UPDF Act. Therefore, there is no way anyone can conquer that supremacy.

Gen. Kainerubaga cannot show his finesse, leadership or abilities, his only there on the merits of who his father is. The general isn’t there because he worked hard or was a man of wisdom. That’s why the people can disdain him and call him out. He went out there… and now he gets the public scrutiny.

The PLU have reacted to calling their master and standby generator “stupid” but they aren’t going hard on the “slavery”. The mentality shows where the PLU and the NRM have left people behind. The NRM and PLU are brothers in combat. They are entangled and are a part of the same thing. These aren’t separate entities. No, they are connected and work for the same goal. Therefore, the reality is a short statement about where the state has failed the people.

Most of the people haven’t gotten better over the 40 years in power. Neither has government programs or policies made a massive change for the future generations. They are at the same point as the children of bush-war generation is now entering office. These people have seen the parents not making changes, but only continued a status quo. The status quo that the NRM wants to keep.

So, we know, we know and Muhoozi should wise up. His being called stupid for a reason. He lacks charisma and the swagger the nation expects. There is nothing in his mannerisms and his attitude that shows his eager or even have the character to carry the weight of a public office. It is just entitlement and arrogance. That’s all we see and hear.

Bobi Wine is maybe not polished here and speaking out of his heart. That hurts the pride of the PLU/NRM. However, they need to hear it, and this wouldn’t have been told. If other people of the patronage would speak. Peace.

Opinion: Among better answer for her tribalism…

Then better make sure that those baganda don’t get numbers!” – Speaker Anita Among (24.10.2024).

Yesterday’s Plenary Session has exposed how the Speaker of the 11th Parliament, Anita Among operates. It was a moment that was supposed to be held in silence and her microphone was meant to be muted. Regardless, we are seeing how she targets and are going after certain groups of Members of Parliament.

The honourable speaker is showing her tribalism. Where she has picked up one group of MPs and where they are from. This is going to far. It wouldn’t be right if she did this against the Acholi, Langi or whoever else either. Right now we are just discussing this because it is targeted against the Baganda MPs.

The ones that are from the Central Region or the Baganda Kingdom. The ones that are elected from a variety of districts surrounding the capital. That’s who the Speaker spoke ill about and wanted them to not know about the situation.

The Speaker isn’t impartial in the affairs either, but the ones directing and taking the shots. She is pushing the legislation and isn’t the one overseeing it. No, she is taking her hands into the cookie-jar to ensure the legislation is pushed through the house. The Speaker don’t care how and what it takes, as long as she serves the interests of the State House. This is why she goes to this length and is willing to take shots at others.

The bill itself isn’t important in this regard, because she is just doing the bidding of the Head of State. She is a marionette in this game and it’s telling. That’s why she’s kept there and is allowed to be despicable at it.

It is just really telling that someone is speaking like this and at her office. In other places she would have to resign and been replaced. However, we know that won’t happen here. She is serving a purpose and that’s why she’s allowed to do whatever.

Speaker Among should consider herself and her role. This is disrespectful and beneath her station. She should know better, but we everyone is supposed to apologize to her and ask for forgiveness. Meanwhile she can act as a thief and disingenuous as she wants. Nevertheless, anyone else doing that in “her” house would get into trouble.

Speaker Among should retract and consider her office, but we know she won’t, because she is shielded by the State House. She will get off and live another day. Like yesterday never happened. Peace.

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Uganda Law Society (ULS): Statement of Position of Isaac Ssemakadde, Radical New Bar President on the Trial of Olivia Lutaaya and Others Before the General Court Martial (22.10.2024)

Olivia Lutaaya is a victim of political circumstances…

Today is a sad day… when a political activist named Alivia Lutaaya has “pleaded guilty” to the charges put on her. After years in prison. The Military Courts has deferred the case and never proven their guilt. They don’t have the evidence or the witnesses to the charges. However, the cases have been pending and their lives have been on hold in prison.

Olivia Lutaaya has now been four years in prison. First as a part of a group that had “13 explosives” which was an army monopolized weapon. Meaning the army and the government claimed the 32 individuals in question had the weaponry and the authorities captured them with it.

However, that was in 2021 and in 2023 the charges changed, and the 32 individuals are now part of a “bali bali” group and was planning “treachery”. That’s how to extend their time and resolve in prison. As a way of forging new charges and pinning new crimes on the people in question.

That’s why this case shows the ramifications of partaking and being vocal for the opposition in the Republic. These are people who was active and supporting the “red wave” and the National Unity Platform (NUP) ahead of the 2021 General Elections. They were picked up from Mbale, Jinja, Wakiso and Kampala. The ones charged together with Olivia Lutaaya wasn’t only in Kalangala on the 30th of December 2020.

No, these people weren’t organized or in connection of each in this manner. Nevertheless, the state alleges that and says so now. These people are prisoners of conscience. Those people are behind bars for their political affiliation.

The initial reason for their arrests was wearing red-berets. It has further extended to having explosives to later being charged with treason. If you think this case is rock solid and has the hallmark of proof. I hate to break it too you, but the state got nothing. They only have fear, intimidation and the monopoly of violence. That’s why they can do this and can take away the liberty, justice and freedom of these civilians.

Oliva Lutaaya deserves better. Everyone on the list of these days and the nights they are having behind bars. All of them deserves better. That Olivia has pleaded guilty is only because the state broke her. Not because she did anything criminal or with criminal intensions. No, it is only because she was associated and an activist from the NUP.

Oliva Lutaaya and everyone else who is a part of this deserves justice. However, they are only getting injustice and impunity. They are victims of who they believed in and who they wanted to rule the Republic. These people fought for their party and their candidate. The price they have taken is too high. It shouldn’t be this way. The cost of being politically active shouldn’t be like this. Risking your life and being behind bars for years. Just because you support Bobi Wine. That’s foolish, but that’s where the Republic is today. Peace.

Opinion: Bobi Wine will “rinse and repeat”

The ones that think the 2026 General Election will be any different than the previous ones are false. This is doing the same thing again and expecting another type of result. However, that is lunacy and idiotic….

Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine isn’t stupid, neither is his team and supporters of the National Unity Platform (NUP). The NUP will then run their second campaign and trying to establish itself as a viable option to the National Resistance Movement (NRM).

Alas, that is given and is what it has too. The NUP and Bobi Wine had a red wave ahead of the 2021. Ever since Bobi Wine was elected as an MP, he galvanized the youth and reach new people. Therefore, he is a threat to the status quo and the elites of the nation. Nevertheless, we know the gig and the game’s that are in play.

He might be able to steer the ship and be able to continue the progress of the party in the midst of trouble. The Party President and leader of the NUP might be able to continue to be the biggest opposition party. However, that isn’t the cause and the reason for the existence of the NUP. That’s just making the People Power operational and a part of a new political elite…

Bobi Wine fought to get rid of dictator. His party was supposed to be revolutionary and be different than the predecessors in the opposition. The smartness and wit of the party was to be vastly changing the terrain. Nevertheless, it was meant to be deeper than this…

The NUP and Bobi Wine needs to engage and be part of it. To totally disassociate or be disengaged from the General Election will be to costly  at this point. They need the MPs and the polls to be viable. However, it is a race where we know the winner and who will have the majority. The NUP and the other opposition parties will only get a fringe minority and not have a final say in the end. It doesn’t matter how they do it or what they do. In the end…

Bobi Wine will fall.. the numbers this time around might be different, but the result is the same. NRM and Museveni will win. The NRM will gerrymander and ensure total control of the Parliament. The Presidency will Museveni’s regardless of his real popularity or not.

Bobi Wine can do this a second time. His within his rights to stand and be a Presidential Candidate. By him doing so… his legitimizing the affairs and contests in a ill-willed elections. That’s what his doing and continuing the path of the predecessors that went nowhere as well.

Just like Besigye stood countless times up to Museveni. Bobi Wine is continuing this tradition. His NUP is taking the place of the FDC. However, things aren’t really changing and only the name on the ballots. The rest is more of the same and we are repeating the sins of the past. Peace.

National Unity Platform (NUP): Party President Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu letter to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni – False Allegations that the National Unity Platform rigged One Million Votes in the Last Presidential Election (15.09.2024)

Opinion: Museveni has a million secret votes apparently…

I have now got all the evidence that in the last election, NUP cheated by one million votes. I have the facts. NUP can take me to court and say ‘Museveni has falsely accused them” – President Museveni (12.09.2024).

There been days and nights since the General Election of 2021. It is like a far distant memory cause of the COVID pandemic and everything that has gone on during the time. Feels like a decade has passed, but we are still in the same term and two years ahead of a 2026 elections.

Now that this is digested, we know how the state operates with the elections. They are part of it and it is all secured through the High Command. The NRM is the state and the state is the NRM. Museveni appoints and directs people he trusts to secure what needs and he has the final say. He uses all sorts of security agencies, deployment of law enforcement and media blackout to control his narrative. Therefore, anyone believing in the free and fair elections in the Republic is either blind or naive. In my life time… there never been a just election or a free one. No, it has been jaded ones and controlled operations to ensure NRM majority and the President for Life at the top.

That’s why yesterday’s statement in Munyonyo is foolish at best. When the Electoral Commission is his baby and they are directed by him. The authorities are all following his command and the opposition are barred from interacting or even operating to full capacity. Because the authorities and law enforcement blocks their entry and passage even during the elections road map. Therefore, the President is really talking out of terms when he claims what he claimed. There is no proof and no justification. Only self-projection, like we don’t know…

Just read the old and good wisdom of Tinye aka Tinyefuza aka General David Sejua!

The first is because of the nature of the current political structure in the country. Because the ruling party NRM is fused with the state, it is difficult to draw the line of who are real NRM supporters and those I consider INDIRECT CONSCRIPTS to the system. Since all the jobs are appended to the NRM party, including those in the Judiciary, parliament, civil service and even the OMBUDSMAN ( IGG) who must be a government functionary, people have lost the natural space to oppose the system. So the kind of opposition is COVERT (silent and hidden). That is why it is always a shock to Mr Museveni when he loses an election like what happened in Luweero recently. Or the many defeats he has suffered in Kampala city. To him, the easier explanation is that the opposition has stolen the vote! How can the opposition steal the vote when all the presiding officers are yours? The explanation here is simple. EVEN THOSE PRESIDING OFFICERS BELONG TO THE OPPOSITION AND SO DOES THE MAJORITY OF VOTERS. So the voting is genuine but he does not understand that his “conscripts” turn against him in the privacy of their voting booths. That is why armed thugs, in civilian clothes are now being trained so that they look into the voting booths in 2016 (the Kabalye graduates)” (Gen. David Sejusa – ‘ADDRESSING THE QUESTION OF UNITY/ COOPERATION FOR LIBERATION LEADERS’ 11.09.2014).

The words of Gen. Sejusa is now 10 years old, but is still relevant. It is the same President and same regime in charge. Things haven’t really changed and only a few modifications of empty suits and willing public servants to further the interests of NRM. That’s the only change and we know the elections are made to ensure longevity of Museveni and his party. This is the objective and what Museveni wants. He wants it to look legit and seem reasonable, but at the same time… he needs a majority in Parliament and in general in all elected offices. If he doesn’t get that… then he figures out ways to change the result and get the announced verdict that he needs. Therefore, everyone knows this aspect and elections are partly futile. Because, the end-game is the same and there isn’t really a say.

There is no will of the people, but the will of Museveni. So, when he speaks of stealing a million votes and he has the evidence. It is hogwash, when he gets his team to manufacture the results and ensure he has the upper-hand. That has been to perfection over the years. Every election since 2001 has been made in this fashion. Don’t matter who stood up against him. If it was Dr. Paul Ssemogerere, Dr. Kizza Besigye or Bobi Wine. Everyone was bound to fail and that’s for one reason.

The reason being Museveni himself. Museveni could never ever win in a fair fight. The Old Man with the Hat couldn’t win people’s hearts or their attention to get elected without the usage of violence, intimidation or election malpractices. There is a reason why Pre-Ticked Ballots is a thing. Why ballot-stuffing is a well known concept and the algorithms and Kiggundu math is subject that should be studied at Makerere or MUBS.

Seriously, this man needs to figure himself out. He claimed in 1981 that Obote stole his votes. Now in 2024 he claims Bobi Wine took his. Even a significant number, but not a substantial to change the “winner”. Therefore, who believes this nonsense and will we ever see the so-called evidence?

We haven’t seen the President dropping his credentials or paperwork like the opposition candidates has too. They have to be validated and certified to stand as a Flagbearer and a candidate for their party. However, the President doesn’t have to and can only use his thumb. That’s all he needs… and it shows how the system is rigged against the others.

So, if you believe Museveni in 2024. Please, re-read the wise words of Gen. Sejusa. He speaks the truth and a truth that resonate today. Peace.

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Bobi Wine didn’t “stumble” on a bullet yesterday…

“Uganda’s opposition leader Bobi Wine has been rushed to hospital with injuries sustained during a confrontation with police outside the capital, Kampala. Images show him being assisted by aides, bleeding from his left leg” (BBC News Africa, 03.09.2024)

“3.When Hon. Kyagulanyi left the venue, he and his team moved out of their cars and embarked on a procession up to Bulindo town; however, the police advised against it. Despite their guidance, he insisted on proceeding and closing the road, leading to police intervention to prevent the procession.

4.During the ensuing altercation, it is alleged that he sustained injuries. Police officers on site claim he stumbled while getting into his vehicle, causing the injury, whereas Hon. Kyagulanyi and his team assert that he was shot” (Uganda Police Force, 03.09.2024).

“Roads to Nsambya Hospital have been closed by police barricades. Vehicles, Boda bodas, or pedestrians without identification are  not allowed to go to  Nsambya, where President Bobi Wine is being treated” (Kampala Updates, 04.09.2024).

Yesterday in Wakiso district the authorities and the police force violently attacked the surroundings of Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine. That has led to a lot of questions and unanswered speculation.

Meanwhile, what we do know is this… that the state used lethal force and used heavy weaponry on civilians. The authorities themselves says the opposition “stumbled” and hurt himself. We know they say they will investigate the matter, but we know that won’t go anywhere. Because the leads bullets of April 2011 that strike Dr. Kizza Besigye have never been answered for. Therefore, to expect any concern or any sort of serious report from the state is futile.

They will say it is tear-gas cannisters or whatever shrapnel that hit the leg of Bobi Wine. However, the video-clips shows officers and security agents with weapons aiming and making shots. Which means they used live-bullets there and it could easily have hit Bobi Wine. Therefore, I wouldn’t be shocked if a bullet him either. Just like it hit his driver and killed in Arua a few years back. We aren’t forgetting that either.

The ones that are downplaying the severity and such are doing themselves a disfavour. Since the state has used live-bullets and lethal actions towards the dissidents. There is nothing significant in what happened yesterday. The authorities have apprehended, kept people incommunicado, tortured and extra judicially killed as well. Therefore, it is not like they are innocent and always working within the law.

The ones that believe that he stumbled and fell over. Your naïve and accept a brutal police force. A police force that doesn’t value the civilians or their rights. Neither does the authorities has any concern or sincere initiative to act accordingly. They rather silence and shut things down with vile force. Therefore, the brutality and misuse of weapons aren’t anything new. They are ordered to do so and have rouge agents doing so.

It is an deliberate act to make the whole things seems benign and less of a case. We knowh te authorities won’t do a follow up or anything of that matter. They will overshadow it or make a mockery of it. Just like the state own spin-team is busy downplaying it as we speak. Instead of grasping with the severity and the reality of it all. They hit one of their own citizens and they act like it didn’t happen.

Bobi Wine didn’t stumble on a bullet. However, that is the story the authorities are going with and that’s not trustworthy. This is insincerity. The sort of impunity that no one should get accustomed too. Peace.