Opinion: The National Dialogue is a stalling tactic by the President!

No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity”Seneca, Dialogues and Letters

I don’t believe that the National Dialogue, which is about to start in November 2018 and Roadmap made by the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda will amount to anything. It will be a lot about nothing. It will be like a Seinfeld episode, lots of simple fun and punchlines, but nothing substantial for the body or the spirit.

This is not something that will upheld or even be honored by the President. Because he has never honored a deal, where he has to loose something or even give way. The President are always finding his way to get the upper-hand and will do so again. To think otherwise is to think that the Old Man with the Hat has changed. Trust me, all the acts of late, shows that he is more ruthless and shows more force. Because he knows he isn’t loved or cared about in the general population. The empty pledges and promises of old is haunting him and the lack of progress on nearly every account is another reason for his total failure. That is because the President is busy micro-managing and not trusting in the appointed cronies even.

I know I should have had hope for such an arrangement, but the acts of the National Resistance Movement, the usage of the Security Organizations against the citizens, the representatives and the ones standing in their way of late. Shows the dire need of a change, but they do this to intimidate and control. That is why Bobi Wine isn’t even able to launch his album in the National Stadium. At the same period, as the ones standing in the way of the President are awaiting court cases and charged with treason. That is a reason why I don’t believe in it. Because, there are not acts by the NRM that are opening for opposition or even trying. They are even blocking the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) President Patrick Amuriat Oboi from operating and meeting internal-party forums. How can this government be real about having dialogue, when others cannot operate without meeting the police or other security outfits?

I wish I could be hopeful, as the dire need is there, but from the one who said he wanted to destroy the opposition and crash it after the last General Election of 2016. That President is most likely doing it to teach the opposition a lesson, not being there to give way or even give the public a hand. Because the old man want to control everything, every legislation and be the fountain of honor. At all costs and be celebrated, even when he is killing innocent people and making up stories, where the hoodlums are the problem.

That is the man that supposed to negotiate with, a war-lord with all power and his orders from above can be fatal to others. He has no trouble using Luweero methods, using bush-war tactics and to use the National Dialogue for that, would be stalling and securing who was the heads. What their needs are and find ways to consolidate them. In such a way, that they need him and not really talk. This is the man that haven’t the ability to find a successor for 32 years and always excused he has more things to finish before he leaves power. You can wonder is left to forget to do. What bridge isn’t fixed in Isingiro or what school is falling apart in Moroto.

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni will only be a post-boy with lectures, but at this point. He will only use this to make a positive vibe or address the opposition, as they are trouble. He has not long ago said where the opposition has MPs, he has striked that district out of the map and stopped developing it. When your discussing what that sort of man, you know it is only his vision and his stories that matter.

The President have to show another side of himself, but that will be lie. He will then lie, because we know what he does and what he has done. The misuse of power, the ruthless acts against people who are in his way. This is known and he cannot run away from it. It is known and public knows it too. His cronies cannot hide that fact. Even if they try.

At this point. National Dialogue is pointless, unless Museveni pulls a rabbit out of the hat and says, who he plans to succeed him and what the NRM dynasty wants to be the next Grand Pumba. Peace.

Being on bail is not free: Bobi Wine and Arua 33 are still in legal limbo!

Today, was yet another turn in the long road to freedom for the people who fights the dictatorship of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. The ones celebrating today’s verdict in Gulu Magistrate Court. Are prematurely celebrating. Today wasn’t a victory or a minor leap.

Today, is just like yesterday. Maybe, not in the sense that the Members of Parliament is behind bars. Neither all the activists or any or the Arua 33 are directly behind bars. Still, their trials are coming up, the court filings will continue and they will have to go bail hearings.

People might don’t want to hear that sober opinion, but a bail or bond. Means, that the ones on this will have to show up to hearings and remand the person, as the supposed trial and sentencing are supposed to happen. This sort of political trials we have seen before with Gen. Moses Ali and Dr. Kizza Besigye. Where the state are prolonging the trials, the injunctions and discovery face, as the so called production of evidence are supposed to happen.

That the Members of Parliament: Robert Kyagulanyi, Kassiano Wadri, Mubarak Munyangwa. Francis Zaake, Paul Mwiru and Michael Mabikke. All of them is not out of the trouble, as the legal trouble might be gone, as there been celebration of the release of the gentlemen. I hate to destroy the party, but its not.

The journey to freedom is far from over, as there are 5 persons in Kampala arrested for printing t-shirts and gear with free Bobi Wine slogans. This is the same happen when they were printing Besigye t-shirts. Therefore, the limited freedom is still there. As the MPs are out on conditions and awaiting trials, they are awaiting possible sentencing and more questioning from the authorities. Even as the state has shown recklessness, as the lawyers of Bobi Wine from Netherlands was “person non-grata” today.

We have to continue the fight. The journey is just starting. No time to celebrate, the wounds have to mend, but the reality is that these men are not free. The state is a mere instrument of the President to control and silence his opponents.

If that isn’t evident for your eyes, than your blind to the evils happening in the shadows and behind closed doors. Peace.

Speaker Kadaga letter to President Museveni: “Re: Urgent Action to Arrest, Arraign and try the Security Officers who participated in the torture of Members of Parliament and civilians, following the Arua Municipality By Elections in August 2018 (27.08.2018)

A stray-bullet for your thoughts!

You don’t need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need to control the bullets, that’s right. I think all bullets should cost five thousand dollars… five thousand dollars per bullet… You know why? Cause if a bullet cost five thousand dollars there would be no more innocent bystanders.”Chris Rock

There is time to recollect our minds and be washed away in the blunders of the past. There are enough issues to grasp. It isn’t just a mere, free the Members of the Parliament, Free the Arua 33 and the activists taken by the authorities. Also the continued purge on the ones in and around Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine. All of the MPs deserves to remembered, as their lack of freedom, needs to be addressed, this is for Kassiano Wadri, Francis Zaake, Mubarak Munyangwa and Gerald Karuhanga. All of these as mentioned are still bound by the state for various of charges and because the President can do this.

What we need is to look at the stray-bullets too. The ones that isn’t hitting the targets directly, but are still killing. The reality where the state is really attacking the possibility to gather as the Joint Communique from the Security Organizations even banned protests and demonstrations. Even if the ones bringing the violence and the killing is the state. They are the ones with the live-ammunition and the ones who are in-charge of it. Therefore, the ones dying during and after the demonstrations are most likely casualties or targets done by the state.

That is why the unfortunate deaths of innocent citizens are showing the lack of care. Just as much as the state are arresting people without warrants, charges or keeping them detained for months before even putting them to trial. That is what the state does to its political prisoners. This shows the lack of mercy and lack of procedure. If not they are scrapping following certain laws, because they are not part of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), therefore, deserves another set of rules of law.

That is why we should worry of all the stray-shots, even if that is a spin. As the soldiers, the Special Force Command and other outfits are really trying to intimidate and show the world that the Ugandan lives are not valued by the state. They are just someone they are randomly hit. They are acting like the soldiers are not trained and just pulling the trigger purposeless.

That is what bothers me, is the narrative they are spinning with this. That they are just killing people incidentally. That is insulting to the families of the deceased. The Authorities are really just saying, that the shot was done accidental. So, if that was really the case, why are there lacking open investigations into the usage of bullets by the state?

Because, the state has promised to investigate into the torture and damage done on journalists, but will they look into the killings and use of guns? Or is that just something they do, because they can? There is no consequence for the state to use stray-bullets on people?

That is why the authorities and the state has to stop use of live-bullets when engaging with citizens. There should be other ways of dealing with protesters that doesn’t turn fatal. That should be a “no-no”. But in the mind of Museveni and his kind, it is a “go-go”.

Stop, the stray-bullets narrative has to die, because a soldier and trained military personnel actually AIMS! Peace.

The infuriating abuse of “Preventative Arrest” and “Inciting Violence” by the Authorities!

Let’s be clear, the misuse of certain laws and pattern of injustice have been rampant and grown over the years. If your an opposition leader and not in the good graces of the law. You will meet it and share custody with chicken thieves and common con-men. That is the nature of politics in Uganda. There are not a long level from driving a fancy SUV to be undetermined as a criminal politician in the Republic.

The usage of certain laws is staggering. The Penal Code and the Public Order Management Act (POMA). Recently, they have added to more things to equation that is getting on my nerve. They are misusing it and blatantly disregard of people’s way of expression. The POMA are used to silence possible demonstrations and political rallies the authorities doesn’t like, as the Anti-Besigye Act it is.

However, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) and the Security Operatives of the regime, have taken it up a notch with misuse of two other types of charges. I am not talking about treason, that has been used against the regarded rising stars of the opposition and the ones who light a spark within the community. Leaders who makes the President and his party looks like little begging children.

The one I first want to mention is the “Preventative Arrest”. The one used against leaders, activists and random people, who can suddenly be taken by the Security Organizations as Police, ISO, CMI, Special Force Command or soldiers. Because they have to take them for any sort of reason, as they can cause damage. They can damage a nerve in the head of the President or make his wife loose her cool. Who knows, but they are preventing something, as the Leopards Anus is afraid they might stir a hissy-fit and create ruckus in the middle of Nile Avenue. Who knows really right? Because anyone from everywhere can be charged with this one. Even a teacher spelling out the words M-P-I-G-S. Can be arrested for these reasons, as they are preventing further crimes.

I am sure they are using the Police Act of 1994 subsection 24. to justify the use of Preventative Arrests, which states that a Police Officer can arrest someone as a preventive action. However, that does not defend the usage of it, as the ones taken has not caused harm, made issues against human decency in a public space nor caused harm to kids or vulnerable people. Therefore, the Security Organizations should stop using this measure, unless they want to be an extended arm of the tyranny.

The second one I have to mention is the “Inciting Violence”, which goes to journalists, activists, TV-Shows, Members of Parliament, Opposition Leaders and anyone who has the capacity to bring more than people together in a crowded street. This is surely a charge that has been misused. The amounts must be at a level, where the fools becomes Einstein and the Police Officers can arrest anyone for this. If they are screaming “Besigye” or just being at a function as a leader. Than, your can be charged with this.

I am sure they are using the Penal Code of 1950 subsection 83 to justify the use of Inciting Violence. Where they use 83 (1), which says: “Any person who incites any other person to do an act of violence against any person by reason of his or her race, place of origin, political opinions, colour, creed or sex or office commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years”. I am sure they are using the charge as someone who express their political opinion and does so in regard of the opposition and not the NRM.

That is why I am tired of this use. As they continue to misuse both of them. NRM are really using this combined with the Security Organization to control the public and stop the public from engaging politically.

The Authorities are making people criminal, they are making political active and leadership into con-men. Therefore, they are finding and pinning these charges on anyone who stands out or are active in the manner of opposition politics. If they are voices in rallies, demonstrations or even consultation meetings.

This is just showing how indifference and how they are misusing the power and blocking people from attending or being part of political landscape. Peace.

Museveni now claims the arrested MPs was misbehaving!

We have crimes in towns, the many boda bodas, vehicles crowding in the City and the errant politicians beating up innocent women. The errant politicians are being handled by the law. We also have the CCTV cameras being installed in the city to tame all these criminals” (Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on 24th August 2018).

That President Yoweri Kaguta Musveni calls Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, Mubarak Munyanga, Patrick Mwiru, Kassiano Wadri, Michael Mabikke, Gerald Karuhanga and Francis Zaake. All of these men are the ones he is mentioning, he might not saying their names, but saying the MPs handled by the law. Are these men, therefore, we know he means this.

To be errant means to be misbehaving, move about aimlessly or staying outside the proper path. When Museveni says this, is that they move on the outside of his circle, they are not following his guidance and his principles. Even if his jaded vision, his mental fatigue is evident. There are clearly the mature way of understanding this man of advanced age.

That Museveni says this and alleges this, shows how immature he is and how belittling he is. That he blames them and thinks it is enough to be handled by the law. The law that fits these errant men, but not him. As he doesn’t have to answer for ordering the Special Force Command to kill and quell the crowds with live-bullets. That is not errant and not wrong, but going outside of the one-man vision of him, that is directly criminal.

It is futile to say this to Museveni. His jaded vision is so blurry, that he cannot see right or wrong. Because he is the almighty who can do whatever he wants without any consequence. However, as long as you are in the way of him, you will taste the justice and the law. That is what the arrested errant MPs.

You don’t need to be bright to get the picture. The snap is right there. The President can try to forge charges, juice up the stats, but the reality will be the same. He is trying to make a mirage appear in the desert, but that is not happening. Not today and not tomorrow, except for the types of Mwenda, Opondo and Wanyama. The rest of us, see and shake our heads.

Errant Politicians? Political Indiscipline, the indiscipline is because they are not following you and being your subjects, but actually thinking human beings. Whose not your tin-soldiers to move around like you please. Get your act to together. Peace.

Reuters Africa Letter to General David Muhoozi on investigation and treatment of James Akena (24.08.2018)

The State has started a purge on Bobi Wine’s friends!

If you ever knew the price of going against a tyranny or against a dictatorship. You know it now, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) and President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. That Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has hit the heart of the dictatorship is now evident. As the Security Outfits are going in plain-clothes and arresting his friends at night.

Last night at around 1AM at Red Pocket Pub, unknown and plain-clothed men arrested Eddie Mutwe aka Ssebuffu Eddy. Whose Bobi Wine’s friend and bodyguard. He was taken without any warrant or any legal reason.

During this morning, Bobi Wine’s DJ David Bwanika was taken from his home. Therefore, there are now searching for anyone in and around Bobi Wine. They are now really surely soon arresting the FireBase Studios artists, as they have done before as well. Since they want to punish Bobi Wine a little extra.

Not only give him forged charges, but also go against his friendships and business-partners. That is what is happening now. The ones associated with Bobi Wine is the state having a purge on. They are not random selected people, but people connected to Bobi Wine. That is why this is deliberate and well-planned by the security outfits. As they know whose around and associated with him. This has been well known, as the artist and performer of Bobi Wine’s stature has had his circle in the media. Therefore, the arrests today, is to prove at what cost it has to go against the dictatorship.

Bobi Wine and the Arua 33 is bad enough. The tortured and the detained Members of Parliament, the citizens after the By-Election. All of them deserves justice, while the state continues to offer more injustice.

We are just seeing a purge on the associates and friends of Bobi Wine. Just like we have seen the security outfits done to other activists in the past. They are following a pattern of vicious attacks on the population. Especially the ones that questions and have ability to spark resistance. Peace.

Dr. Kizza Besigye – Release Bond (23.08.2018)

Groundhog Day: Liberation from Prison for Besigye!

Yet again, the Police have released Dr. Kizza Besigye as they arrested him in his home this morning. As he was supposed to go to Gulu and attend the Court for Robert Kyagulanyi case. This he was barred from entering. As the state blocked and stopped most of the hardliners within the Opposition. That was done with others.

But now we know, that Besigye is left by the gates of home in Kasangati, Wakiso. Therefore, he is free. Without we’re knowing the reason for the arrest, charges or even warrants. He was just taken from his home, because the authorities can and the Police was ordered so from above high.

This day is just another day of impunity and criminality of the state, as they are making it illegal to opposition and making their lives hard. Because of their affiliation. That shows how the President and National Resistance Movement has to silence people.

They are so afraid of Besigye voice, as well as they are afraid of Bobi Wine. As both of them has shown their popularity and their message to the people has reacted too.

Besigye is really a sour thumb for the government. As they have to detain him, because he exists and because he could light a fire. A fire that the government are afraid it couldn’t contain. Just as they have seen what the young politician Bobi Wine could do as well. Now both of them have been charged with treason by this regime. That shows that these two are politicians that brings the fear of the state.

Besigye should be allowed to leave his home. Besigye shouldn’t have to go through this. No one should be arrested at their home, without charges or without warrants. That is just showing how insane the Police and NRM are at this point. Peace.