
Dear Sir,
Retired Major General Mugisha Muntu, the National Coordinator or Party President of the Alliance for National Transformation (ANT), I got to say. I got to say one thing. Your mellow, pragmatic ways are understandable, but also a path that takes forever to make change. That’s just a fact, but the reality we live in. I understand why you act like this and takes this approach.
I got to say, I respect it and the way you handle yourself in public. As a politician and a leader, your mannerisms and choices, I have to vouch for them. They aren’t revolutionary or shocking in any regard. You are standing on principle and on your grounds. That is something many others cannot say.
Mugisha Muntu my writings on you in the past has been reflective on how you distanced yourself from the Defiance Campaign and how you created own fraction from within in the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC). It was you against Besigye and that shouldn’t have happened. You both work towards the same goal, but has different visions of approaching it. I can see that you two are brothers of the same struggle, but just act with alternative measures to gain true liberation and freedom in the Republic.
This isn’t words I would written in my hay-day of 2014 to 2018. I know, but I see things with other eyes. Aging has a way of making you see and oversee events with new eyes. That’s why the pragmatic and well thought acts are one way of doing it. Even if it is a slow measure and reformation by hoping the wheels fall off. It is an understandable approach, as it doesn’t cost and won’t be a dangerous path.
Muntu has seen conflict, seen the cost of liberation and been part of the struggle. As a leader and as a opposition for decades. He knows what price people are paying for their actions. Muntu has seen the price people are paying, the pain and the suffering they are going through. Therefore, we can acknowledge why he works this way.
Mugisha Muntu will address the current affairs and drop knowledge. That he does when he is invited. He shows up in solidarity, even with people who has betrayed him and the cause his fighting. Because deep inside, he knows these people have just acted in their faith and with their conscience in their fight in the same struggle.
That’s why you should respect Muntu. Not because his a party leader, a former FDC leader and someone who turned on Museveni. We who has been vocal supporters of Besigye. Should reflect on how we went hard on Muntu. I can see that was a bit to harsh and out of loyalty towards another fellow leader in the struggle. That’s something I have acknowledge and say, as anything else would be insincere.
Muntu deserves credit, acknowledgement and praise for what he has done. Not that he has moved mountains, but he has shown how a man can carry himself and silently building on his own. He has done so without going against the ones who went after him and vilified him. Which was wrong and I take my blame for my part.
I cannot take the time back or change it, but I can in this moment say: “I was wrong and I’m sorry”. More people should do the same too. As we all mature and gets more years on our backs.
Muntu deserves to be honoured and get his flowers. Not only nice remarks when his gone. No, he should be saluted, and people should study how he operates. As a man of honour and candance.
Best Regards
The Writer of Minbane








