Opinion: The authorities will use any excuse to block the NUP

As the government Agency mandated to protect life and property, keep law and order, the police management has decided to halt any further consultative activities of NUP as a party with immediate effect until this matter is conclusively investigated and resolved. We appeal to the public to remain vigilant, observe law and order. Whoever acts contrary to public order and safety shall be held accountable under the laws of Uganda. The safety of Ugandans will always remain our priority” (Uganda Police Force – ‘POLICE HALTS NUP CONSULTATIVE ACTIVITIES AFTER DEADLY TRAFFIC INCIDENT’ 31.05.2024).

The National Unity Platform (NUP) are a target and can do no wrong. There is no place they can move or have ability to mobilize their party. The authority and law enforcement will be used against them. There will be any sort excuse to block them or do it for their own “benefit”. Even if they cannot get into their own headquarters or new party offices. Therefore, we know the gig…

It isn’t long ago that the second round of the national mobilization tour started. That was postponed and stopped, because the authorities didn’t allow the NUP to get to Palisa district. This is why this is nothing new.

Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine and the NUP is aimed at. They are popular and are able energize the population. That’s why the state and the authorities are doing what they can to silence them. The NUP is just stopped in their tracks and not able to assemble. That’s the gist here and what the state tries to do.

So, after the NUP continued the Nationwide Mobilization Tour, they were able to visit Mukono and Masaka. Nevertheless, that’s where it stopped and now they are blocked again. This time because of an accident on the roads to Masaka. There was so many people showing up and being a part of mobilization tour. The NUP party couldn’t have a control of them or knowing what they were up too. So, now the authorities is using their actions and what they possibly did as a reason to block them from working as a national party.

This sort of act and reasons wouldn’t be used against the National Resistance Movement or anyone in close association of the NRM. If the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) had such acts in near proximity… it would have no consequence and be hoodlum with no connection who did it. Therefore, we know the double-standard and the usage of any sort of ill-will to stop the NUP from trying to be relevant.

The NRM and the authorities wants the NUP to be a party of the HQ and not a nationwide party. They are trying to silence and stop it from mobilizing the public. That’s what they are doing and it isn’t brilliant either. They are just continuing the same technique and misuse of power. As they are using the law enforcement to interfere in the political sphere. The UPF is now deciding and telling when a party can engage and work as a nationwide party. That’s not up to the police. The Police should shield and safeguard the party. They shouldn’t be there as a stumbling block and a power of interfering in their work. However, we know what the UPF does and what the rest of the authorities does.

The NUP and Bobi Wine has guns surrounding them. The state are aiming at them and never looking sideways. They are anticipating and trying to make them illegal. That’s what they are doing and it isn’t even done that clever. The NUP has legal rights to operate and be a political party. However, the state… is doing what it can block, silence and … won’t do them any favours.

It shouldn’t be like this… but this isn’t anything new. There is nothing new under sun and the NUP is getting the treatment that FDC and Besigye used to get back in the day. Peace.

Opinion: The Butcher of Kasese is finally sanctioned…

“Additionally, Peter Elwelu, former Deputy Chief of the Ugandan Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF), is designated due to his involvement in gross violations of human rights.  Specifically, Peter Elwelu was involved, while commanding UPDF forces, in extrajudicial killings that were committed by members of the UPDF.  As a result of these actions, the designated Ugandan officials are generally ineligible for entry into the United States” (U.S. Department of State – ‘Designation of Ugandan Public Officials’ 30.05.2024).

Days and nights has gone without any sort of condemnation or any sort punitive action against the army commander who took part and was essential to the destruction and massacre in Kasese in 2016. A man who has gotten promoted, elevated and become an instrument of the government.

That’s who Lt. Gen. Peter Elwelu is, he is now an UPDF MP and Senior Presidential Advisor. He has gotten higher ranks and become a voice within the government. That is all because of his loyalty and acts for the authorities. The army commander was willing to kill, destroy and annihilate if he needed. That’s why he burned the Royal Palace in Kasese and ordered the killing of anyone who was there. Therefore, the amounts of death and the massive massacre will forever linger on his name.

Lt. Gen. Elwelu is a bloodthirsty man. It is well deserved that his designated with sanctions by the U.S. The others that was sanctioned today was high ranking officials in connections to the Mabaati scandal. However, I want to focus on Elwelu, as he has usually tended to get promoted and positive vibes. Even when he has used force and been a vile human being.

It is nice to see Lt. Gen. Elwelu getting sanctioned, but will it matter? Would he travel and visit the United States of America?

It is a nice sign and a signal to send. Nevertheless, who ordered the killings and the massacre itself? Not like Lt. Gen. Elwelu acted in a vacuum and did it all on his own. There was someone above him and who outranked him to give him the “word”. Therefore, I wonder if there is someone else who should be touched for the same vicious acts in Kasese.

Yes, it is nice to see the U.S. government act upon the human rights violations and crimes against humanity, but why aren’t it encircling anyone who took part of the Kasese massacre and burning of the Royal Palace? Why only him and not the men above him? Because there have to others who ordered and knew.

I don’t think Brig. Elwelu at the time acted alone and on a solo-mission in Kasese. He wouldn’t be powerful enough or have enough sway to do so. Then he would have suffered. However, he did deliver and became synonyms with the murders of Kasese. That will be who he is and define him for life.

That the U.S. has sanctioned him… is fine and dandy, but will they do that to more people who was a part and who was as vital as Brig. Elwelu…. Peace.

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.

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: 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)

The Uganda Citizens Forum for Justice and Equity letter to U.S. Ambassador to Uganda – Petition calling for the sanctioning by the United States of America, United Kingdom, European Union and Republic of South Africa of Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bob Wine – President of National Unity Platform in Uganda under the Global Magistsky act, 2016 (09.05.2024)

Opinion: My rebuttal to Magogo’s Third Force and Charter…

“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.

Opinion: Resisting the resistance… [the NRM-IR]

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.

Opinion: Museveni has sold these stories as long as I can remember…

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.