Kisoro By-Election: Do we even care?

“For decades, the Mateke family has been a powerhouse in Kisoro’s politics, leaving an indelible mark on the district’s development and governance. The extent of the family’s influence was once again on display this week, following the demise of Kisoro Woman MP and State Minister for Defence, Sarah Mateke, when district leaders endorsed her younger sister, Ruth Nyiraneza to succeed her as Woman MP” (NBS Television, 15.09.2024).

I beg your pardon, but do we? Do we care about this By-Election? It’s a long time coming. The 11th Parliament is settled and yet another Member of Parliament died in office. So, there has to be an election to replace the late Honourable Sarah Matake, the former State Minister of Defence.

Certainly, the family wants to ringfence it and others has supported this. The state of hereditary politicks is among us. We have seen this several other races and by-elections over the past few years. Where the family members of the deceased as fielded a candidate for the National Resistance Movement (NRM) and if it has failed. They have stood as independent and still won the seat. Therefore, in this case… that wouldn’t be shocking either.

There is talk of 15 candidates across the board for this one. The ones thinking this will be a test and a show for 2026 is wrong. It is just another By-Election and its sort of already scheduled. There is nothing surprising here and we know the gist.

The authorities are ready and the Electoral Commission too. The whole gig is prepared, and the pre-planned warzone is soon amongst us. Where the opposition will be man-handled, the law-enforcement will arrest and block rallies. Meanwhile, the NRM can do whatever they like. See unmarked cars and vehicles with officers doing questionable acts. However, they will claim the opposition planned some sinister things…

That’s why the results and the polls are a farce. There is nothing here to see that we haven’t seen before. We can wonder if Ruth Nyiraneza is the next in line or if Fancy Nirere will pull it off. There are other candidates too, but I am not hopeful. Neither if it is NUP, UPC or anyone else for that matter. These sorts of races are to get a new NRM MP and nothing else. That’s the endgame and how the score is tallied.

There is no fanfare or joy in this. It is only procedure and more causes or effects. There is no sort of hope or signs of possible positive outcomes here. No, it is just another poll that is most likely ending in favour of the ruling regime. The ruling regime that is handling it and ensuring their favoured result. Therefore, everyone else is just props and making it look legit. That’s the gist here…

I am not giddy or looking forward to this By-Election. After how several others has gone over the years. This won’t be any different and only the names on the ballots has changed. It is the same NRM and same security organizations interfering in the elections. The same intimidation, briberies and voter tourism that we have seen before. Everything to make it seems good, but we know the reality on the ground.

That’s why this Kisoro By-Election isn’t all that. It’s a default setting and we have seen it before. This is why I am cynical and not hopeful. I don’t see anything good coming out of this. It is just another re-establishment of a new NRM MP and that’s it. Peace.

Opinion: Janet has forgotten her own past…

“Don’t be tempted to leave Uganda to spend your early years of strength and productivity developing other countries at the expense of your country….. those countries we admire and would give anything to live in were built by their citizens through years of hard work and sacrifice. Our own homeland deserves no less determination” – Janet Museveni (25.09.2024).

“In February 1981; Janet Museveni and her children re-located to Nairobi, Kenya, where they lived with family friends until 1983. In 1983, they moved to Gothenburg, Sweden, and stayed there until May 1986, four months after Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Army had seized power in Kampala” (Team Yoweri 24/7, 24.07.2020).

Yes, the 1980s was different and yes her situation was vastly different than for the youths today. The generation that decides to leave and find greener pastures on the outside of the Republic. Who can blame them?

This is the system and the administration that has been in control since January 1986. The President and his men are the reason for people leaving. They haven’t created markets, functioning society or even policies that are beneficial for the citizens. That’s why they are leaving and trying to find better options elsewhere. It is the failure of the state to provide, ensure and secure the livelihood of its citizens. That’s why they are going elsewhere and migrating.

The First Lady and Minister of Education should understand this sentiment, as her and her kids all went into exile. The ones going to exile today is because of her husband and the family reign over the last few decades. That’s because of her husband and his tyranny. This is why people are leaving and a concept that the First Lady cannot comprehend.

She is living in a delusion, because of the wealth and the entitlement she has over decades of spoils. The President and herself have been living lavish. They have built themselves an empire over the capture of the state. That’s what they have been busy doing and now they cannot accept that people are left behind as a consequence of that.

Janet Museveni should look into herself and wonder why she left into exile in the first place. She should think and reminisce about the past. That would be healthy for her and the state of mind she could have. Especially, when she is busy trying to lecture people. The people who her and her husband’s administration has left behind. They are the ones that haven’t made it possible or viable to work within the Republic. That’s the bleak reality and the First Lady should understand this. However, she rather be arrogant and obnoxious about it.

There is a need for the First Lady to reflect on why she went to Tanzania, Kenya and Sweden herself. She should be the one that understand the implications and the need to leave. As she did that for her own safety and her family. Now others are doing the same for similar reasons. Now it isn’t guerrilla warfare, but a system built for a chosen elite and not the public at large. That’s why people are leaving and we cannot blame them.

This is the fault of the system and the ones in charge. Janet is part of the problem and so is her husband. The family which went into exile are now responsible for others doing the same. Now they are in power, and they are creating the same vacuum and reasoning to let other people flee the Republic too. That’s tragic, but the truth, nevertheless. Peace.

The father forced the hands of his son…

No civilian will lead Uganda after President Museveni. The security forces will not allow it. The next leader will be a soldier or policeman” – General Muhoozi Kainerubaga (21.09.2024).

We all know where this one stems from, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. That the Commander of the Defence Forces and Son of His Excellency, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerubaga is saying this. The implications and what he has stated online over the weekend is clear.

The whole Twitter (X) posts are deliberate and with an extent to further his own cause. Even if it is half-assed and done to support his father. It wasn’t like Yoweri Kaguta Museveni would step down or retire. No, his father has no plans directly for succession or such. They are extending his Presidency for Life, as long as they can. They will push it until the inevitable.

Muhoozi will end up in the dilemma of the Mugabe family where Grace Mugabe called the shots, but Robert Mugabe was the Head of State. That’s where Muhoozi and the whole Museveni clan is going through as well. The natural ageing will commence with time and is only natural. That will have affects over time. That’s what we all know and we will see. They can try to hide and conceal it in public. However, Museveni is ageing and it will show with every given day.

General Muhoozi and “Project Muhoozi” is maybe on hold, but the influence is there. His Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) will be a part of the National Resistance Movement (NRM). The NRM we see now will be reflected by the PLU. The PLU will mirror the NRM and vice versa. They are the same coin, just either heads or tails.

We can see that Muhoozi won’t betray his father. He will be in the shadow and be a underling of him. Just like he was a Senior Presidential Advisor and now as a CDF. Muhoozi needs his father and cannot step out of that shadow. That’s evident and clear. There is no way out for him and his stuck in this quagmire. A quagmire created by his father and prolonging reign.

It is a sad state to be in. A man is in his fifties and clocking soon 60. While his father is still at the Helm and not planning to retire. This is what King Charles went through and had to wait for decades to takeover from Queen Elizabeth. Now, this isn’t a monarchy, even if some is acting like it is.

Muhoozi is showing that he lacks democratic principle’s and he will follow where his father left off. His entitlement and arrogance will be part of his downfall. Thinking that his above it all and untouchable. He will have to play games that his never prepared for and won’t be able to step into. No, one will see that he has the character or the ability to gain this trust.

The General is beholden to the past before he ever becomes the future. He cannot ascertain or accept the fact that his part of the problem and is eating of the plate. Muhoozi wouldn’t be where he is if it wasn’t for all of this. It isn’t like he has created or made a big splash on his own. That’s all because the state machinery is behind his father and his letting him play on his own. If he does that… he gets peace and possibly reach other people than he can himself. That’s why he hoped his son could be used to reach another generation or the ghettos for that matter. However, it is all built around him and with his influence. So, it won’t get really far…

This is all built on the NRM and the PLU will fold eventually, especially when the faucet and the blessings are drying up. It is all built around the anointed one and we cannot see a future with that surrounding it all. The son is doomed by the paradigm that his father has created.

You cannot win when you don’t play and you cannot win when your not allowed to play. That’s where Muhoozi is and he has to be a token soldier for his father. Peace.

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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.

Opinion: Mao proves the PLU is the NRM…

“However, the PLU may become their disruptor. In the primaries, there will be an intra-NRM contest, but it is likely to be dominated by PLU-leaning NRM members. If the President is no longer there, the NRM will have to choose a leader. That leader will likely emerge from within the NRM, and most probably, the PLU leader will have enough influence to become the party leader” (New Vision – ‘Muhoozi’s PLU will top 2026 Elections – Mao’ 10.09.2024).

The ones saying the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) is an opposition party is completely false. It could never be an opposition party or an outside entity of the government. Especially, when the leader of it is the son of the President and is the CDF of the UPDF.

Gen. Muhoozi Kainerubaga is allowed to have this “social experiment” and allowed to run a political party as a CSO/NGO. A Pressure Group from within the NRM. Where he sponsors and appoints several of leaders from within to represent within the PLU. The one from the PLU is even appointed into the cabinet too. Therefore, this is a marriage of convenience

The Lion is sitting on the bus. The bus is driving the lion. That’s what is happening here. The ones thinking otherwise is naïve. The trick isn’t that smart. Neither is this a sophisticated progression of the NRM. No, this is a sideshow that’s becoming the reality.

The birthday bashes becoming a political party. The empty sloganeering on Twitter becoming ways of campaigning. His boasting proclamations and determination to run for office. Even if he has been living life on easy mode and been living in the shadow of his father his whole life. He has neither been promoted through honest day work or by the fruits of his labour. The General wouldn’t be where his at without his father. That’s the reality here and he cannot phantom a world without that happening.

The PLU isn’t a reaction to the lacking parts of the government. Neither is it a result of weakness or a structural imbalance of the NRM. No, it is made as a normalization of Muhoozi in public. It is making the façade very obvious and the shadow games of a “Project Muhoozi” obsolete. This is just making the successor as staple and apart of discussion. Like he is a powerhouse and we should see him coming.

There isn’t anything unique or special about him. Neither is the PLU coming in with any significant promises or people of high regard. No, it is a continuation of the NRM and what the NRM has been doing. It would just be changing faces from the father to his son. That’s it and it’s heredity politics. The state of nepotism and kakistocracy at its finest.

The PLU isn’t the opposition and how can it be… when they are already a part of the government and are all associated with the NRM. They are yellow but has a lion instead of a bus for a logo. They could be selling beer, shoes or sell chocolate for all our concerns. If not, it could be the revival of the old English Premier League logo to a new generation of Football fans. However, we know what they aspire to do…

Sooner or later, the words of Gen. Tinyefuza aka David Sejusa will come to life. We are already seeing it on a daily basis. They are doing it with no disregard or concern. That’s because the high above and the high command are all in. This is why we see it and we are supposed to be fooled.

Gen. Muhoozi is only talked about because of his father. Not because of his service, promise of the future or his leadership qualities. His never been in office or in public office without getting there thanks to his bloodline. Therefore, his arrogance and entitlement will be his downfall. Peace.

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Opinion: Katuntu is now yellow…

“How could you send entyabire (Kinyankole word for poisonous mushroom) to Parliament to represent you? You used your votes wrongly because your MP is anti-development” – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (26.01.2005).

The long term Member of Parliament Abdu Katuntu (Bugweri MP) have now officially become a part of the National Resistance Movement (NRM). For years his been lingering around the NRM and affiliates. Now it is official that the Former for Democratic Change (FDC) MP has become a NRM stooge too.

This period and until the General Elections of 2021. The MP became Independent after losing it the Primary Elections. That’s when he stood up as an independent and won. Now he has turned completely from FDC to Independent to the NRM. That’s who he is and no one is shocked or in awe.

We know that in the previous term that the Speaker Rebecca Kadaga saved him from total humiliation and kept him in office. Because the FDC had wanted to reshuffle him, but Kadaga kept him at bay. That’s a signal of where he was going. When the handlers and the powerful of the ruling regime keeps you close.

That’s when you know he doesn’t serve the interests of the opposition. His just one of them. Who uses the opposition banners and parties as a way of getting into position. He used the FDC for years, because it helped him. When they dismissed him and sought for fresher blood. He won on recognition and being the incumbent.

Now he will return to 2026 election and be in yellow. He will be a Movement aspirant and run as a NRM MP. That’s who he has become, and it shows. The morality and ethics of it doesn’t matter to the man. His just in it to eat and get a paycheck.

We saw another person when we saw how he handled the Presidential Handshake and the COSASE committee. It was a reason why the state kept him and didn’t want the FDC to change him. He served a purpose and now he has returned to that party.

He only went independent because he lost from within. Meanwhile he hasn’t challenged or gone after the government ever since. His now one of them and a former blue going yellow. One of many who has done this before him. They only used the FDC as a place of origin and ability to get into office. Down the road he turned from that home and has sought after more greener pastures. That he has found and now he will dine with the kings.

That’s why Katuntu has left. He is now a man of the ruling regime and don’t mind what it entails. He just want his meal-ticket and baseline for lavish living. This is why he becomes a yellow. That’s who he is and everyone should know now.

His not a poisonous mushroom anymore, but he is another compromised cadre who sold out. Peace.

Opinion: The Ghosts of Amin and Obote haunts Mzee…

He (Amin) does it with a small clique of idiots and don’t blame the people of West Nile for this. Even when we were fighting Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), it was the same. We told our cadres that don’t blame the people of Northern Uganda- of Acholi, Lango, for the mistakes of Obote. Distinguish between the misleaders and the misled. This is the line of the NRM. Always make a distinction between the misleaders who are few and the misled who are many. Even if they are misled, in most cases, most of the masses aren’t involved at all, it is just a small group of people” – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (29.08.2024).

The predecessors and their achievements is haunting the current ruler. His legacy and his legacy is torn by them. The last victor has since his inception tried to pin everything ill and bad on the predecessors. We have even heard times when he blamed the Colonial British for circumstances and badly performed governance to this day. Therefore, this man will blame everyone else and even the dead.

President Museveni who fought a war to take power. A man who used arms and had a private army. A man who used a rebellion to overcome several heads of state. That man is still blaming the predecessors and the dead. The ones that will analyse his reign. They will see that he has used their tactics, their methods and their means to conquer. He promised to be different, but he has used their means to his end.

President Museveni has found every scheme of the book. His used the years to enrich himself and the cronies surrounding him. While not delivering government services, neither building functioning institutions or government entities. No, he has just made get-rich schemes and come with hallow promises. Meanwhile investing in heavy hardware and ammunition to keep himself in power.

That’s what he has done and in the Second Day of the Parliament Sitting in Gulu. As he came as a visitor and special guest to Parliament. He decided to talk about the President that came from the North. The late Idi Amin Dada and Dr. Milton Obote. Both who he conquered and destroyed to get into office. That’s what he did and he has enlarged himself on their downfall. Trying to forge a narrative and a story to benefit himself. Because that’s all he has… and he needs to vilify them at every turn.

We all know by now. There is little to nothing to show for the 40 years in office. This President haven’t ensured a working society. Heck, this man cannot even be trusted to ensure the Ministry of Health has enough money or functioning systems to secure the delivery of medicines to the government health facilities. There are so many more examples, but it just shows the abysmal track record that Museveni himself has.

That’s why he has to make the predecessors look bad. He needs them to be vindictive and cunning people. This is to make him look better and more pristine. When everyone knows how vicious and sinister his reign is. There are so many skulls that been bashed in his name. So many people who has been silenced and tortured to keep him in office. Plenty of people abducted and kept incommunicado. Therefore, this man has used the state for his benefit and the monopoly of violence to crush whoever stands in his path. That’s who Museveni is and a warlord acts just like this.

A man that took the power by the gun, will end the power by the gun too. Unless, he has an unfortunate demise or is relieved early of his duties. Alas, there is no end in sight… and the glory of 1986 will be told indefinitely. That’s all Museveni has… but it doesn’t make it more true. His just preoccupied rewriting his story and forging a narrative that is beneficial for himself. He needs others to be the villains, so he can be the hero. That’s the gist… and the ghosts are haunting his mind. They have captured his spirit and he cannot be released by them. These ghosts are in his conscience and most like creating nightmares that troubles his every step. Peace.