Opinion: The Dog Nation was too much to handle for the Liberator…

Entebbe Chief Magistrate Stella Amabilisi has sentenced TikToker Nabugodi Emmanuel to two years and eight months in Kigo prison. Nabugodi, who pleaded guilty, was charged with insulting President Museveni through a video he posted on his TikTok account, @rice027. The video, shared in September 2024, was deemed to demean and degrade the president, promoting hostility against him. The incident occurred in Wakiso District, after which Nabugodi went into hiding in the Bugisu subregion. Following weeks of tracking, police arrested him in Mbale” (What’s Up Mbale, 18.11.2024).

It is a doggy dog world and who let the dogs out? Woo wooo, who let the dogs out?

The Judge of the Dog Nation was arrested, detained and now is sentenced for insulting President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. The Republic is in a sorry state when a guy makes his own Kangaroo Court on TikTok, but Teacher Mpamire is walking on holy grounds. You just know there is one law for Peter and another for Paul. We have seen that in other instances too, but this is just the gist of it.

The content creator was unlucky to not have good counsel or good representation. As he was bound for failure. The video in question is satire. The TikTok itself isn’t mentioning any names or such. So, the man should have gotten off the hooks on technicalities. Regardless, they wanted to make an example out of him. Just like they did to others before him. There is only one chief blogger in the nation and that’s His Excellency himself.

So, please get at me dog. Well, there is a lot of barking going on. Certainly the authorities do bite. They sniff one out and then decide to retaliate with their attack. That is showing here.

The ones justifying it is either naive or content with the status quo. Because they are getting worried about TikTok getting 20,000 followers and spreading his content online. Certainly this is a way of silencing him and stopping him progress. As they want people to only follow the NRM Way and not be left astray.

It is really showing the character of the state… and who they really are. When someone of this stature and with this sort of following is getting charged and sentenced like this. When they are making an example of him and giving him such a harsh sentence. It just shows who they are and what the state does now.

Rice027 shouldn’t get this punishment. The state should wonder why people are making skits and comedy like this. The state should be concerned with why they are doing it and for what reason. Secondly, why people find it funny and why it resonate with the people. That’s what it should have done. Even question the man for his motivation and why he does this value-addition and over-the-top entertainment to being with. Instead they are making him a felon and a criminal. It is just showing how limited freedom and liberties there are in the Republic. When you can’t make a mock court and be a mocking judge. That is too far…

The party of liberation cannot even stomach just that. The Liberator and the Freedom Fighter cannot handle the Dog Nation. Peace.

Opinion: Gen. Salim Selah we would have preferred you silence

Caleb Akandwanaho aka General Salim Selah, the President’s brother and Minister without a Portfolio or an Office. The unannounced and above the scrutiny of the bureaucracy. The man, the myth and the legend in the flesh.

This is the mighty of the mighty. The demigod and the one and only. This sort of character that is high above and where you have no say. Where not even the Generals are allowed to speak or acknowledge. They are just supposed to drink their tea and shut the hell up. They should read the room and await their turn for getting the mercies of the Gods.

Alas, wherein there is the problem. That someone who haven’t been elected or appointed on merits. That has such power and ability to suck himself to the state. His there out of hereditary politics. Just because his the brother of the President. There is no skill-set or proof of wisdom from this man. No, just that he was born by into the same family and worked beside the President on certain affairs.

He won’t have it with questioning NAADs, OWC or anything else his operating. The things his the coordinator of and has a way of getting public funds for. He can linger in hotels and live a lavish life. Act like his making a difference, but never have to prove it. That is like enjoying the perks of office, but not having to account for it.

This is why his butt hurt by a Member of Parliament questioning him. A loudmouth at that. A sort of figure, former journalist and MP of the Opposition. Who dares to question him and calling him out too. That man should have known that the General and the brother of the President is untouchable. Just like the son is too. They can misuse office and piss public expenditure away with no regards of the people. These are the ones that dines with the gods for a reason. While the MP and civilians are dining with mere mortals.

Let’s be real for a minute. Gen. Salim Selah should have been silent. He shouldn’t have published those pages on Social Media. In reality it just exposes his vanity and entitlement. Like he is above it all. Neither is it reflective or genius. Instead he spits on the elected official and reasoning without reflecting on how it looks. This isn’t bad PR but generally an utter embarrassment.

The General would be better with a side-dish in an up-country hotel. Then spending time like a bored pen-pal writing letter to long lost friend. Because this is just exhausting. He should know better and some of the Presidential Advisors should give him a word. If not one of the staffers at the Office of the Prime Minister, which are directing the things his supposed to coordinate. Therefore, he could kick some knowledge and maybe even be better in public.

However, that is too much to ask of an old gentlemen like Caleb. His used to finer parts of life. Enjoy all the luxurious things the world posses. Meanwhile, no one is supposed to study his works and how he earned those. No, we are just supposed to accept that and call it a night. Peace.

Kisoro By-Election: A look into Bobi Wine’s response after the polls

We are certainly not saying that we would have won each of these by-elections. But there is all evidence to prove that they were neither free nor fair. Even in places where their candidates could potentially win comfortably, they engaged in massive ballot stuffing” (Bobi Wine, 15.11.2024).

On Friday 15th November 2024, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine published a text on social media addressing the aftermath and the results of the Kisoro By-Election. That to no avail or surprise went to the National Resistance Movement (NRM) or a NRM leaning Independent. This what went down and no one in the Republic was shocked by it.

We know how these By-Elections goes down and sometime you have to wonder if the Opposition parties aren’t reflecting on how they are operating. Because these elections goes down and they are all shocked about it. Instead of seeing the pattern and evolving. Following the same procedure and not acting accordingly. That’s what we have seen from the National Unity Platform (NUP). It haven’t barricaded or tried to force itself on the system. Instead it is just as complicit as the predecessors. Who are all banking on the same authorities and living in the hope that it will change itself. Which we aren’t seeing decades after decades…

Bobi Wine says: “Come back to yesterday, by 10:00am, regime officials started reaching out to our polling agents with money and telling them if they resisted, they would be arrested. Many indeed gave in and abandoned their stations. Only a few resisted and reported what was happening.

The regime does this to deliberately downplay our strength and to drive the narrative that the masses we attract do not necessarily translate into votes. Given that we’re heading towards the general election, they know this might have an effect on the psyche of the population, such that when they rig, they have recent by-elections to justify their theft!” (Bobi Wine, 15.11.2024).

We know these things are happening. The militarized zones and the usage of force by the authorities. The NUP and other parties knows this happens very well. That isn’t anything new and been modus operandi for years. Therefore, the opposition should reflect on how it works around it and guard the votes. How it can retaliate in a peaceful manner and be agents of change. Instead of letting them “win” in fear and in the possibility of retribution. Therefore, this is just a disregard of the will of the people and what they really want.

He continues: “Certainly, there are many places where NUP and the larger opposition need to do much more work in mobilising and awakening people, and Kisoro is one of them. It is clear that even without the kind of rigging they engaged in, the independent candidate would still have won. (But what is true also is that the NUP candidate would have gotten many more votes than those allocated to her.) This is in part because in Kisoro (and Oyam) there was another dynamic of a protest vote against the official NRM candidates. The would-be opposition voters chose to unite behind candidates they considered having the best chance against the NRM” (Bobi Wine, 15.11.2024).

This here is a mere fact, but its troubling for any opposition or party to do this. As the NRM and the authorities blocks the parties from engaging and building up structures. The state is interfering in internal party business and how it supposed to build party organizations. Therefore, they are tied and handicapped, which isn’t helping ahead of any polls. In addition to the rigorous activities during the polls and during the counting of it. Which is just a charade and make a mockery of the shindig.

Bobi Wine is even spelling out what I said after the polls. That in some races the Opposition should rally behind one candidate. Just to have a bigger shot at defeating the NRM. However, then you need to coordinate and have a willing of dialogue in a short span of time. Where the trust is built up between the parties and they are willing to forfeit candidature too. As it could be more humiliating if they fail to succeed. Regardless, in some instances it could be helpful. Especially, if the goal is to get the number of NRM MPs down in Parliament.

He continues: “Therefore friends, DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED. The struggle against dictatorship and misrule will involve many challenges before we get to victory. And yet we keep using all avenues including elections to awaken our people and push the message of freedom” (Bobi Wine, 15.11.2024).

Yes, the struggle lives on. Just like it did in the past. More of the same. Where people are doing the same and thinking they will get another result. Trying to configure the same system that is built to destroy the competition. Therefore, the way to victory over it isn’t to play as a part of it, but outwit it. However, that seems uncertain and as unknown terrain for plenty right now. Besigye have outlined the needs and the steps to do so. Nevertheless, those steps are forgotten and people aren’t reminded about those. That’s why we copy-and-paste. Meanwhile, the NRM lingers on and nothing changes. Peace.

Uganda Police Force (UPF): Halting of NUP Mobilization Tours Across the Country (15.11.2024)

Kisoro By-Election: Doing the same thing and learning nothing…

The recent Kisoro By-Election have gone down without much fanfare or excitement. Shockingly, there haven’t been a sort of move or tension, which made the regime or the National Resistance Movement (NRM) to act all out.

The ordinary acts of pre-ticked ballots, added security forces and policing in the District was as a customary act. The NRM used their teams and worked hard for their candidate. Meanwhile the opposition fielded several candidates to no avail.

That the PPP, FDC, UPC and NUP all had a candidate, but the battle was a NRM Leaning Independent versus the NRM candidate. The others was just publicity and party building exercises. The ones thinking otherwise was naive.

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) have yet again not listed to the local sentiments or who that is rightfully to elect. That’s why Rose Kabagyeni didn’t win and wasn’t favoured enough as Grace Ngabirano Akifeza. The NRM Electoral Commission didn’t take into consideration the will of the region or the district and just pushed through their person. This is why Akifeza went independent and proved them all wrong.

Plenty are mocking the NUP here, rightfully so… but in justification the NUP had no stakes in it and would only be a miracle if it was getting a win. The machinery is on the side of the NRM. The state apparatus in high gear and this is why they sort it out this way. They can rig to a certain extent, but they cannot force it totally. That’s why the likes of Akifeza gets through.

She would have harder trouble being elected or being part of it. If she wasn’t friendly to the NRM and wanted to be their flag-bearer to begin with. The President and the NRM EC needs to reevaluate. The other parties just had fools hope and it went nowhere.

It didn’t help that Bobi Wine or James Akena was part of the campaigns ahead of the polls. It didn’t matter that the NUP was there for two days. However, they didn’t guard the votes and continued their country tour. That’s why some people aren’t taking them seriously. As they weren’t trying to forge or even fortify the district. Instead they had hope and thought Tana aka Beyoncé would carry it for them. Alas, that is clearly not the case.

The Opposition Parties needs to assess the By-Election and if it is worth it. They need to consider to field joint candidates and make alliance across the political spectrum. As the NRM won’t relent and they are only allowing NRM leaning Independents as the second best. This is why they accept the loss, but wouldn’t be okay with a true opposition. Therefore, they knew this and saw the footprints in the sand.

You need an earthquake and a miracle for opposition MPs to win in these By-Elections. There is little wiggle-room or if any. Except for when a person has such popularity that is out of bound or out of the ordinary. They are unique and has the messages that the locals or voters are concerned about. They have the sincere heart and nobility that makes them feasible. That’s the times the opposition has won these in the recent years.

This time around… there was a run-of-the-mill election. Nothing was significant and no message was said. There was no story or tale to be told. Only that the NRM lost to one of their own. They lost to someone who wanted to be theirs, but they rejected her. That’s why the locals said “no” and we want her. This is why we are here today. Peace.

Kisoro By-Election: Return Form for Transmission of Results (15.11.2024)

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.

Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU): Press Release (12.11.2024)

Opinion: Amin’s ghost haunts Museveni

In around 1971, Amin had even destroyed the little gains Uganda had obtained from 1962. When we came in power, we really had a problem to first fix what Amin had destroyed and then also try to do what we wanted in our agenda of socioeconomic transformation. That’s how we created the NRM 10-point program” – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (07.11.2024).

A man who has ruled supreme since January 1986. That man should be able to live on his own achievements and create his own legacy. Alas, that is clearly not the case. As this man has to continue to rewrite history and distort the legacy of the fallen ones before him.

Yes, Idi Amin and his government was terrible. The records of the Amin era was bad. That is on record and the historical documents proves that. So, there is no need to defend Amin or his ways. He was a dangerous man and would use force to get his way. That’s why his enemies was in trouble and his erratic decisions could hurt the stability of the Republic. Meanwhile that doesn’t stop his patriotic acts or trying to make a change too. Therefore, there is still proof of what Amin tried to build and what he wanted to see as a future in the Republic. That’s something the current leadership wants gone and forgotten, which is ironic.

The ills, the destructive and misuse of power during Amin has become main-stay and part of the ordinary usage of both lethal, human rights violations and stopping of assembling of opposition. During Museveni he has made security outfits, organizations and law enforcement that acts within the realm of what Amin did. He just had more years to perfect it and made it part of the status-quo. Therefore, his able to get away with it and it doesn’t cost him anything.

It is just striking that the Museveni government is now going after the cash-crop of Coffee. The Coffee that was vital and the biggest export of the Amin era. That who was giving the government of Amin the ability to run. It gave it forex and foreign funding for selling coffee. This was sold in bulk to America and even done with embargoes towards the Amin government. Which just shows how things was in the 1970s.

Now in 2024, the coffee exports are rising and profitable. That’s why Museveni wants more control over it by dissolving his own 1990s creation of UCDA. The predecessor of the CMB. That’s how Museveni operates and he has to pin blame on others. As his government had previously failed the same industry and agricultural output after taking power. It took them nearly a decade and foreign entities pressuring for liberalization and new methods to ensure a more profitable way of getting the cash-crop to the foreign market. That’s when things started to surge. Now that it’s in a rising market and one of the key crops of the Republic. This is when he plans to take it and get a piece of the pie. That’s what the President does…

The ones believing his mess. They are naive and deluded. Amin’s ghost is haunting President Museveni. The dead are now surrounding him. He see them and is worried about meeting them in the afterlife. His worried that people will deem him as bad as them and will write his legacy. A legacy he has self inflicted and created. The skeletons, the pain and the suffering committed to stay in office. Will forever be imprinted with his name. The golden letters and fanfare of opening institutions will not linger on. When the bodies, the stories and the pain is released. When the full extent of the massacres, the amount of political prisoners and the usage of systematic torture is released. That’s when the truth will come out and it will be a reckoning for anyone who stood by his side.

They knew that he fought dictators and he became a more vicious one. He thought he was clever, but the truth is more sinister. That’s the reality here and he cannot hide from it. This is why the ghost of Amin re-appears and comes to scare him. He don’t want to be an Amin, but deep inside he knows there is no difference between him and himself. Peace.

Parliament invaded by strangers over coffee…

“When the media was taken away from here, the lights were switched off, network was disconnected, this place was raided by strangers, against Rule 237 of our Rules of Procedure. I want to believe that it was on your order that the media was thrown out, that people raided this House and beat up MPs and yet as far as I am concerned, you are meant to protect us. But you ordered for us to be beaten, today and in this House” (..) “Members were beaten, brutalized, all of us were being shoved around like little children, in our own House. They were stepping on these chairs, pushing and they picked up a couple of MPs, while beating them up. Our colleagues were assaulted, including women, by men, whom we don’t know, they aren’t staff of Parliament, they don’t belong to the Seargent at Arms office, they are hooligans and “kanyamas” that came in, with a mission, to beat up MPs. A couple of some MPs were using their phones to record what was happening, people’s phones were grabbed, and some were beaten up” – Leader of Opposition Joel Sssenyonyi (06.11.2024).

The ones believing that the UCDA and the Coffee Amendment Act isn’t in the interest of the President or the State House is wrong. Everything is on the line here. This is repeating the acts of the Age Limit Act that gave the President a longer stay in office.

“Chaos erupted in Parliament as Kilak North MP Anthony Akol clashed with Mityana Municipality MP Francis Zaake during the House’s reconvening to debate the controversial National Coffee Amendment Bill 2024. A video of the altercation has since circulated” (NTV Uganda, 06.11.2024).

Stranger against brutalize inside the Parliament chambers. Going in and forcefully arrest opposition Members of Parliament. Just so the government programs can go without scrutiny or noise of the opposition. The Baganda MPs aren’t supposed to have the numbers and they are now banished from the premises. Over 10 MPs are now blocked from participating in three sessions. That’s after the state entered and allowed the unknown and unnamed security agents to take the law in their hands.

There is no escape. The coffee and the whatnot is ending up in the hands of the President. He resides with the power. The Speaker and the Parliament are just supposed to serve him. They are there to do his bidding and ensure his blessings. That’s all there is too it. This is why it is done this way.

The August House and the Honour is all gone. Just like it was before. This term is no different from the previous one. It is just the usage of force and to get the “yay” from the people who are in debt and who needs favour from the President. They are there as his stooges and slaves to follow his guidance regardless of the betterment or the needs of the nation. One man rules them all and they just have to obey.

The coffee is apparently owned by Museveni and his junta. This is how he wants to be remembered and how he takes over the premises. That’s how he moves and how he ensures his way. There is no middle ground or any sort of good justification. Just another way of using a means to an end. The ones paying will be the farmers and the traders, but the cut will be in the realm of the Presidency. Peace.