“Why we need the third force for the new Uganda
Coercion, propaganda, preaching hate of one against the other and sowing anger among the citizens will only make people more desperate and ungovernable. The new ensuing disorder will indiscriminately torment the actual and presumed aggressors and the aggressed. Instead, as a nation we should take the opportunity of the current calm and order to reflect on the new Uganda and the generations to come by creating a Post President Museveni Charter. This opportunity may never be available when disorder descends. If indeed we love our Motherland and we all want to live in a better Uganda now and for generations to come, then let us make this country peaceful, listen to each other, respect divergence in opinion and accept co-existence and this can only be achieved by honest dialogue” – Moses Hassim Magogo MP and FUFA President (08.05.2024).
The ideas of the FUFA President and Member of Parliament Moses Hassim Magogo isn’t new. Also remember that’s his in the National Resistance Movement (NRM). He is an asset of the government and serves it as an MP and a leader in Football. That’s why I take this with a grain of salt and wonders if these words are to inaugurate the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU). Because that could be the “Third Force” because, he never mentions who they are and consist of.
Magogo MP is careful with his words here. Only speaking about a sincere problem. A bottleneck that the President and his inner circle has created. The prolonged agony of the tyrant and self-styled President for Life.
The “Post President Museveni Charter” is a way of saying there is a need for new laws and changes of the Constitution after Museveni leaves. That means every time there is a transition and a leadership change. There is a need for restructuring. That’s when you know the state and the lack of institutional procedures aren’t in affect. This is a signal that is sending alarm bells.
Museveni came with a Commission and created the 1995 Constitution, which he has amended in every hour of need. Now a MP from his own party says there is a need for a new Charter and change post-Museveni. That shows that the legislation and the laws currently aren’t made for the Republic, but to honour Museveni. This is really a statement of failure from the ones in office. They must clear up the mess and the dirt of the processor. That they have to re-institute and re-organize the government, as is…
Magogo MP might mean well by all of this… the Third Force, but for me its talk to safeguard and ensure longevity of the NRM. It is to have dialogue and give way to Gen. Muhoozi. That’s what this is… because this is calculated and planned efforts. They are speaking of propaganda and hating one and other. When the state is targeting dissidents, arbitrary arresting, court martialing civilians and using drones. That’s when the state is up too and will be remembered to do. Therefore, the talk of negotiations and dialogue needs to start with the end of impunity and injustice, which is rampant for the ones who really dares to challenge status quo.
“Honest dialogue” with the current regime is pointless. They are only there to find people eligible for a title and office. They are there to compromise and ensure their loyalty to the President. In the end… they are selling their integrity and future for a few silver coins. Therefore, that has to happen Post-Museveni. Museveni aren’t interested in a real dialogue or talks that undermine his power. He only wants to destroy and malign the ones who are in his way. This is why Magogo’s ideas aren’t for the time being worthy of discussion. Because we are talking about a timeline without Yoweri Tibuhurwa Kaguta Museveni. We don’t know when that will happen… eventually as a mere mortal, but we cannot know the day or the hour.
Alas, the troubles remain, and Charter will not be written. It’s a fools hope and that’s all we have. Peace.
“The Former Deputy Resident City Commissioner for Rubaga Division Anderson Burora has formed the National Resistance Movement in Resistance ( NRM-IR) a break way group from NRM to fight corruption. Speaking to the press in Kampala the founder of this group Burora noted that NRM doesn’t tolerate corruption and this group will resist corrupt leaders, impunity, abuse of office. He says people can’t continue to die because of lack of service delivery while leaders are sharing what should be saving people” (Uganda Broadcasting Company (UBC) – ‘Former Deputy Resident City Commissioner for Rubaga Division Anderson Burora Forms NRM-IR to Combat Corruption’ 02.05.2024).
Resistance is said to be an act fight against something that is attacking you or something you are refusing to accept. Which means the National Resistance Movement (NRM) in itself are fighting against something or refusing to accept someone. We know that the NRA did rebuke and reject the leadership that was elected in 1980. However, we have gone a long time from there and we are now in 2024.
Burora’s group the NRM-IR is a group of people who are fighting something against fighting something. He is resisting the resistance. That is how redundant this is and how pointless the name of the group is. If he thinks his winning brownie points or being smart. Well, it isn’t a lot of wisdom in this.
NRM-IR is a word-salad and the founder should know this too. Burora is speaking like Museveni does and we know the drill. He promises to fight the impunity, the inaction and the grand corruption that is systemic in the NRM. While he associates with the NRM, as he is the NRM-IR. A group that is still associated with the regime. If it had been totally independent or in opposition. The founder wouldn’t have renamed it after the ruling party. That’s what he has done and it’s message is clear.
The NRM-IR will be an idle organization. It will be as powerful and meaningful as the NRM Poor Youth or any other sort of organization in association with the party, but not a direct part of the NRM Organization. The NRM-O or the NRM won’t sing this tune and this is only done to make Burora relevant.
Burora wants to be seen and get an office. He wants to be seen and be taken seriously. Nevertheless, his wits and wisdom isn’t that clever. It is just hot-air and a wast of time.
He is resisting the resistance. A man who works against the machine and doesn’t sow the mustard seed. No, he screams and shouts, but no one who matters will listen. He will be crying out loud, but not result in any favours given.
The NRM-IR will end up in the dustbin and forgotten. That’s the nature of things, unless the Kitchen Cabinet or any one of the inner circle gives its blessing. Sooner or later… it will be gone and no one will miss the man who resisted the resistance. Peace.
“I am tired of all these stories…these neo-colonial civil servants who have been holding us back, i have put my foot down, i don’t want to hear those stories… and Uganda is developing and it will develop because i don’t entertain that nonsense anymore” (…) “Borrowing for what? capacity building. Imagine! Seminars, they call you in a hotel, you eat chapati, mandazi, they say that is capacity building…it should be on the ground not just seminars. So if you are serious, i need to hear about the low cost funding for manufacturing, not for stories…for manufacturing” – President Yoweri Tibuhurwa Kaguta Museveni (29.04.2024)
Knock, knock, whose there?
I don’t know… but certainly not the one that was supposed to appear.
Well, enough jibberish, right? I know, I know, but when a person like President Museveni. The Fountain of Honour, His Excellency and the guy who has run a nation since January 1986. It is just obnoxious and outrageous that he acts this way in 2024.
We know the game and how he has played it. This is all to be in a spectrum of lecturing and insightful. He wants to be a living legend and a statesman. Regardless of his of inaction, lack of development and misuse of power. The old man with the hat wants to be acknowledged and be feared. That’s all there is so…
So, this man has tried to make stories. Forged narratives and fictitiously made his former enemies into villains. That’s what Museveni has done and he has taken their actions to heart. He has incorporated them and found ways to mask them for personal gains. Therefore, he isn’t the guy to lecture others on the failure of stories. When his own story and what he has done is altering with reality. He is a benefactor and a tyrant who hasn’t built a powerhouse, but a house of cronies and a kakistocracy of epic proportions. Therefore, he isn’t the fella to others…
“The main reason there is no growth in Africa is that the growth factors are neither funded nor understood; those who want to help Africa should fund our transport systems, electricity, raw material processing, and import substitution” (…) “Our populations are increasing, but our economies are stunted. The IDA should tell us why they are funding the modern slavery of Africans, and we should address issues like why Africa is producing what it does not consume and consuming what it does not produce” (Museveni, 29.04.2024).
I would say one of the main reasons why there is no development and lack of proper future planning is because of the likes of Museveni. The old cadres who has built systems and ensure total loyalty to him. They are blindly suffocating society on behalf of the population and later begging to be saved. Instead of building institutions and government programs that reflects the needs of the population. That’s where the likes of Museveni has fallen…
Museveni has promised salvation, but only brought false hope. The liberation and the society he promised in the bush. That one was only nice on paper. Just like most of the development plans and schemes created after going into office. Nicely written pieces, posh wordplay and significant push from donors, but no plan on how to sustain or even implement it further. That’s why the Ministries and the Government at large still needs foreign backing to be running. Because, Museveni haven’t created a broader tax-base or enlarged the public’s coffers to an extent to finance his bloated government of cronies. Therefore, he can blame neocolonial entities and polices, but he has benefited from those over the years.
He calls this modern slavery, but his the modern day slave trader. Who accepts that the youths and brain-drain from the Republic. Since he isn’t building for the future and neither are his closest allies. They are just looking for the next get rich scheme and heist of government funds. The misused funds or ghosts will appear across the republic. Therefore, he should know what his other hand is doing.
Yes, the continent and such have been given a bad start. It has been an deliberate act, as everyone is looking out for their own. The continent shouldn’t live on handouts, but on own earned capital. They should be able to use the resources, the wealth and the capabilities of the population to thrive. However, with the leadership of the likes of Museveni. The continent will go nowhere, he has no interest of seeing it going anywhere. That’s why his complaining about the same stuff as he was doing in the bush. There is no difference here.
He has told this story before and his repeating it. It isn’t insightful. As a President since the 1980s… he should have more to show from it and not just acting pragmatic at the world stage. Because when he comes home. He will open up a water-tap. Re-open and rejuvenate the same sort of failed value-addition factory somewhere outside of central region. That’s what he will be doing. So, it isn’t like he brought the industrial revolution or the laissez faire business to Uganda.
No, he only brought more of the same and the only thing left behind will be the massive loans that he ate. He will leave behind debts that will scorn the next generation without anything substantial or any sort of collateral to safeguard these loans. Sooner or later the nation will default. Unless, he has a magical source of income out of nowhere to be his saving grace. That’s yet to be seen, as the mountains of debt will be a plight.
That plight won’t be the stories of Museveni, but of the sorry brother who takes over power after him. Peace.
The Republic is dived into 146 districts, 322 counties and 10 cities. These are all administrative units which has appointed leadership and elected leaders. The National Resistance Movement (NRM) has ballooned this over the years. Just like they have gerrymandering the districts and counties since they took power.
The rise of districts is also straining the economy, as each district needs set of standards and possible government service, which are expensive to uphold. That in regard to the need of administrative personnel and people who can accommodate just that. However, it seems more like a game for the “boys” than to give the people anything significant service delivery.
The districts has a Chief Administrative Officer (COA) and often a Deputy and Assistant COA too. They have already a Residential District Commissioner (RDC)/ Residential City Commissioner (RCC) and Deputy RDC. Now the newest creation is an addition Assistant RDC, which means the district can have 6 people in office for the delegation and to work on supposed government pledges for the district. They can have three people who are directly COA (COA, Deputy and Assistant) and now get three RDCs (RDC, Deputy and Assistant).
So, the local government have all these people surrounding them, as well as the other chiefs and elected representatives. This is the duplications of offices, which isn’t serving the citizens. Instead its a way of hiring stalwarts and loyal cadres of the NRM/PLU at the moment. Just so they can be “idle” and “get busy” until the 2026 elections.
It is really telling that the NRM issues this out, as the state cannot afford to honestly keep the upkeep of schools, hospitals or roads. Nevertheless, manpower for the RDCs and COAs is fine and dandy. There is no report that these are doing anything useful or even contributing to any sort of positive development. They are just filling up positions and ensuring loyalty to the state. That’s all we can see…
The billions spent on the Assistant RDCs will not amount to anything, but loyalty to the President. They are indebted to the NRM and the President, but they will not make a difference. That’s we have already seen with the CAOs/RDCs/RCCs, which already had deputies. Now they have a secondary deputy in the assistant. It is really infuriating to see the wastage of public funds on this. When you know how dire the state of affairs is…
This is what the NRM prioritize and uses funds on. Work and titles for fellow cadres instead of service delivery. This is what 38 years in power does to you…. Misuse of Power and Misuse of Funds. That’s what the NRM and the President does…
Nothing honest about this and only ballooning the state even further. While ensuring the public coffers get depleted quick. Peace.
“Democratic Party Chief Whip in Parliament Peter Okot has brought to light the simmering tensions within the opposition in parliament. Okot claims that the Democratic Party is being excluded from key decisions within the opposition bloc” (NBS Television, 21.04.2024)
Remember the Democratic Party – National Resistance Movement Agreement of “No Surprises”? That’s the reason why the DP Party of 2024 isn’t part of the Opposition Block. The DP is part of the Cabinet and part of the government. The DP Chairman or Party President Norbert Mao is a Minister. So, in all practicality… the DP is part of government and by default of the agreement made between Mao and Museveni.
DP Chief Whip Okot can cry out loud, but he needs to understand basic civics here. You cannot be a fish out of water. You cannot eat your cake and eat it too. It is just a way of life. Mao decided on behalf of the party to become part of the government. When Mao and his associates signed the agreement…. The DP Party forfeited its place within the Opposition. The DP Party has nothing to do there now and it has to adhere to the agreement made with the NRM. That’s it…
So, this discussion should be dead. The DP Party is in government and part of government. They have nothing to do in Opposition in 2024. The DP Chief Whip needs to call and talk to the leader of the Party. So, he can get guidance and wisdom, because right here… his lacking and needs some enlightenment.
It is really stupid and crazy to assume the DP should be an opposition party. Especially, when the leader is in Cabinet and the Party has signed the “No Surprises” Agreement. That’s all settle the score and the party has signed its fate just right there. It is just rubbish and needs to be brushed off. Peace.
“At least eight artists belonging to Ugandan group Crane Performers were on Saturday arrested for allegedly insulting President Yoweri Museveni while he was delivering a speech at a hotel in Kampala, where celebrations of Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi’s wedding anniversary were taking place. The eight performers who were attending the same event with Museveni are said to have been heard saying the Ugandan president was speaking too much and that he should end his speech. According to the Monitor, the eight had their microphones on when they made the utterances that were picked in the hotel’s sound system and heard by majority of those attending the event. The artists will be charged with insulting the person of the president“(Edward Chweya – ‘Eight Artists Arrested For Insulting Museveni At A Wedding Anniversary’ 08.04.2024, Citizen Digital).
The Freedom Fighter and liberator of the 1980s are known for using the Penal Code Act of 1950 in his favour. The colonial law which has several of articles, that has been substantial in his iron grip of the state.
People are laughing at the arrest of 8 musicians today and it shows how foolish his government is, but we have seen this before. Artists, activists and politicians have tasted the bitter fruits of the Penal Code Act. The Crane Performs follows several others who has been here.
You should never offend the “don” or the Leopards Anus. He is Untouchable, the Fountain of Honour and His Excellency can ensure the demise of others, if he feels annoyed or ridiculed. That what happened at the Wedding Anniversary this month.
Here is the Penal Code that matters…
“24. Penalty for acts intended to alarm, annoy or ridicule the President
Any person who, with intent to alarm or annoy or ridicule the President—
(a)
wilfully throws any matter or substance at or upon the person of the President;
(b)
wilfully strikes the person of the President; or
(c)
assaults or wrongfully restrains the person of the President,
commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for life” (Penal Code Act, 1950).
If the President and his party believed in the utterance of the public. He could have amended this part of the Penal Code. The Penal Code has been amended several of times and this article could have been taken of the earth. It could have become a relic of history. However, it is still active in the year of 2024 and people will be charged because of it.
It takes nothing to offend the President. President Museveni is easily annoyed and offended, which is a reason for several of people detained, charged and taken into custody over their utterances in public. The musicians now are the latest ones… and there will be more than these. As this law is active and will be used whenever the President deem fit. He will order it and ensure the demise of others. They will learn a lesson and that the President is the “high above”. Peace.
“MPs on the Legal & Parliamentary Affairs Committee queried the Shs1.119Tn Electoral Commission is seeking to start activities for the 2026 general elections, with some Lawmakers describing the Shs18Bn to be spent on legal fees for private lawyers & about Shs500M to hold national prayers for peaceful elections, as wasteful & exorbitant” (Parliament Watch, 02.04.2024).
The Government of Uganda (GoU) aren’t poor when a government entity or institution can plan a National Prayer costing 500 million shillings. They want to spend a “service award” on a prayer session. That is all for publicity and make belief. It is a way of being in the public and showing good faith.
The Electoral Commission (EC) which is gearing up for the General Elections in 2026. The EC has plenty of things prepare and set-up ahead of the polls. The Commissioners knows what is at stake and their mandate too.
Not that we can believe… or have proper faith in the polls in general. That’s because we know the “winner” years ahead and we know that the NRM will have the majority. This is regardless of the will of the people or who they align too. The Opposition can have whoever on the ballot and that person will never succeed. Therefore, the EC is just another tool used by the President to legitimize himself and his reign.
We can wonder why they want to spend millions on a National Prayer for Peaceful Elections. That in an environment, which has been filled with intimidation and authorities cracking down on dissent. It is like the EC doesn’t see what the law enforcement is up too and acts during the electoral road map. We have seen how the authorities are kidnapping, arresting and detaining opposition leaders, activists and associates during and after elections. Therefore, the prayers for peace are futile, when the system is rigged against just that.
The Electoral Commission won’t change the practices of the security agencies. We know they will crackdown and keep people incommunicado. That’s what they do… the drones will show up and people will go missing. Just because of their activism and their fight for their candidate or party. That is just the way things are going in the Republic…
The whole state apparatus will be used during the elections. There will tension and fear in the air. As the awaiting cooking of results are awaiting. The soldiers in the streets and the LDUs will be surrounding vital areas. They will be all around and we know the social media will be a key thing too. That’s how the state operates and this is the “fake peace” the state offers the public.
This here is wastage of public expenditure. Misuse of office and misuse of resources. The EC shouldn’t use these funds on a prayer. They should use on it something useful, which would build confidence or civic education about the electoral system. However, they rather hire a pastor, church and hold a ceremony to bash in glory in front of God. That’s who they are and its disrespectful and dishonest. Which is a bad start for a prayer.
Living on a prayer in dishonesty and being disingenuous is just a poor taste. While your spending money which isn’t yours doing it. That is just a sight and Lord Almighty, the ones in Power has failed us all. Peace.
“People like [Speaker] Anita Among are not the problem. The real problem we have is the traitors working for foreigners. They are not mistake makers but outright traitors working for wrong foreigners like homosexuals and imperialists. How can you talk so much on social media about Anita Among instead of those traitors? I’m getting intelligence and we’re going to expose those traitors” – President Yoweri Tibuhurwa Kaguta Museveni (23.03.2024).
We are just supposed to be forgetful. We are just supposed to look away from the obvious and act indifferent. That’s what the President wants and he plays a blame game. It isn’t foreigners fault that the Parliament is corrupted, the foreigners aren’t partaking in the illicit funds and misuse of office in Parliament. That’s on the merit on the ones holding office in the Parliament right now.
Yes, the President uses sloganeering and familiar tropes. He uses vilification and creating invisible enemies that works with an invisible hand to influence everyone. President Museveni thinks we have forgotten and that we are all delusional.
We all know that Museveni was a donor darling and a beloved character in the West. We know that the state, his government and all institution got a giant boost by foreign direct government aid. We have seen how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank has directly changed output and guided the state after the bush-war. It is not like the government haven’t had a large part of the funding from outside sources, which means foreign influence directly in the pockets of the President. So, he should speak less of foreign traitors and look into his own actions first.
President Museveni has fought the “war on terror” on behalf of the West. Museveni have accepted using his armies in the “dirty” wars that the Western armies doesn’t want to touch. His armies have been deployed, trained and gotten ammunition as a pay for doing these services. We are supposed to forget that part too. That’s how has been beloved by Clinton and W. Bush. That’s just something we are supposed to forget aren’t we.
That’s why homosexuals and foreign interference is bad in 2024. When the old man has spent fortunes of donations and aide over the years. The President has wasted foreign funds over decades. While the funds from outside has been diminishing of late, that’s because his not following the interests of the donors. He is going in his own tune and that’s why he has to take out loans to cover the deficit in his budgets. Therefore, his mad at the donors who doesn’t follow his every whim. That’s what his “yes-men” does and Presidential Advisors does.
So to defend the Speaker by speaking ill like this… it isn’t working. Especially when you have knowledge of how someone has operated over the years. The Bretton Woods and the UN Organizations has come in with massive relief. They have shielded and taken a load of the President head. He has gotten it easier because they captured the shortfall when he needed it. They delivered where his state couldn’t and that’s why its rich calling them traitors now. When he traded shots, bulletins and speeches with them in the past. He would have enjoyed the glory in 2024 if he could. The President would have danced in Washington D.C. if someone allowed him. However, that’s not the case…. And we know it.
Shiish. Sigh. This is tiring and repetitive. Peace.
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