Opinion: Museveni shouldn’t throw stones in a glasshouse

I know Bobi Wine and the fools supporting him who don’t know Uganda very well, foreigners and others who are here but I know all them. I know that this one is a fool and the other one” – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in Kikuube, Hoima on 19th December 2020

There are some people who has the foresight and visions to get ahead. President Museveni thinks he did, but apparently he never got there. If he had faith in the general public or people in general. He wouldn’t come with a statement like this. This is intolerant and very sectarian of him.

This is deeming some people and a whole group of supporters for fools. That is very devise and for someone who is a liberator and working for Pan-Africanism. If he was supposed to bring in the whole collective and be working all parts of society. He should also understand and appreciate other opinions.

However, that is not the deal of the old man with the hat. His is a self-entitled, self-styled President for Life and the only man with a vision. This is why Bobi Wine is a fool. That’s because he doesn’t work in accordance to the beliefs and ideas of the Presidency. Everyone is supposed to follow his ‘Correct Line’ and if they don’t they are not part of the “fundamental change” this President promised.

Apparently, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine isn’t following the programme and neither is his supporters. They are trying to remove the old man and his regime. That is clearly violating the ideals of the regime and its cronies who is all working in tandem with this. They are all involved and enriching themselves. They don’t want to loose their bread and butter. However, when someone like Bobi Wine challenge that. It is dumb, stupid and foolish.

Nevertheless, it couldn’t be further from the truth. Yes, in the gist of it. It can be seen as a hopeless mission to vacate a dictator or a tyrant. That road is so filled with obstacles, hardships and suffering. The state is working against you and all avenues are blocked. There is no way to turn without getting oppressed or suppressed for your belief. Still, you work on it, because the idea of true freedom and liberty will not stop. Not until it happens.

Museveni is not wise calling this enterprise foolish. It makes him insecure and belittling his main competitor. For someone calling politics a battle of ideas. This sort of act shows his indifference to pleas of his citizens. It shows the reality on the ground and what sort of narrative he plays out.

The National Resistance Movement is filled with “yes-men” and only following man’s ideas for decades. The party is run like a one man show. While other organizations are run through protocol and through conferences, which sets the program and manifestos. Therefore, the Chairman and President controls the game. Anyone just supposed to follow him blindly.

This is why the ones who doesn’t is in his eyes a fool. However, that is not true. If so then most people are and many who did follow him has stopped. They have left because they couldn’t following the solo-run of the President. Not like he has the same folks around and only a few choses who has stayed there. Not because of policies or dogma, because that wouldn’t be beneficial to their ways of earning profits on their offices.

The President better start acting rational and not like this. If he thinks this is wise or wisdom. I hate to break it to him. It’s really not that smart and not brilliant either.

This is just desperation and a bad trade of the old man. He should know better, but clearly he don’t. Peace.

Another night where Bobi Wine cannot access a hotel [this time in Mbarara]

The police is blocking us from accessing the accommodation we booked. They say we can not sleep in Mbarara”Bobi Wine (18.12.2020)

This is another day of this as Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine is twelve miles away from Mbarara. Where the Police Force is blocking the National Unity Platform Presidential Candidate from getting to Mbarara town where he had booked accommodation or a hotel room ahead of the next day’s campaign in the region.

Bobi Wine also tried to go in another direction and get a hotel in Isingiro. However, the Police Force blocked that too. So, we can expect the Presidential Candidate to sleep roadside somewhere. Even been taken to somewhere out in nowhere and sleep inside his vehicle again.

This is becoming so common that its obnoxious. The President comes with all the flash and fanfare. While this one gets the tear-gas, blocking roads, venues and hotels at night. Live bullets towards his car and his associates. Who are either hurt or arrested while they are campaigning. Some are even captured during the night on dodgy charges that will go nowhere.

Therefore, what is happening tonight isn’t new, but a systemic efforts to thwart things. They haven’t been as many hours in one location as they we’re in the Northern Region. However, they are still blocking his movement and not allowing him shelter for the night. That is injustice and disgusting behaviour of the state. This is what the Law Enforcement does to their own citizens.

Bobi Wine is an enemy of the state. That is evident by the acts made towards him. This is ridiculous. Peace.

Police shot at Bobi Wine’s car in Rwampara

Police officers have shot at Bobi Wine’s car,flattening the front tyre as he approached Rwampara for campaigns. Two NUP members have also been injured. Bobi’s campaign roadmap covers Rwampara, Ntungamo and Isingiro today” (91.2 Crooze FM, 18.12.2020).

Again, the Police Force using dangerous means to stop Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine in the mist of campaign. It is a reason why his wearing a bulletproof vest and helmet. The man need to be safe and secured, because the Police Officers are clearly not keep him safe.

On our way to Rwampara, the same team of masked men in black police uniforms who have been trailing us on all our campaigns, cut us off the road in a remote area, shot at our car flattening the front tyres, an officer using his bayonet injured 2 of our comrades” – Bobi Wine (Kampala Dispatch, 18.12.2020).

We are seeing that Police Force have no regards for the opposition or their campaigns. They are ordered to block and violently stop the National Unity Platform (NUP) Presidential Candidate. This is seemingly so. Since the RDCs and DPCs are all finding their measures and ways to make it hard for Bobi Wine to campaign. They are using all tactics means to make it hard for him and his team.

This have been a steady act of the authorities. They have been relentlessly on the case of Bobi Wine. Ensuring that he cannot access districts, hotels and not even use the main roads. There are so many cases of injustice and impunity in the middle of the campaign. Not only the unjustified arrest and fatal days of riots to get him freed. No, that is only one piece of a systemic acts of disenfranchised candidate who has the “world” or the state directly against him.

Bobi Wine is an enemy of the state. To say otherwise at this point is naive. His car has been shot at before, used tear-gas against and roads blocked to any sort of venue or hotel even. There are nothing he can do without questioned or have law enforcement on his tail. This man is more monitored than terrorists or common criminals. It is like Bobi Wine is a serial offender and serial killer who is traversing the Republic. With all of that his still persisted and continued to campaign.

So, that Bobi Wine car shot again isn’t surprising. This is sadly the state of affairs and what they do to him. We are lucky it’s the wheels and towards that part of the car. Even though that is dangerous and we cannot know wheels would react after the shots. The cylinders and mechanics could have been damaged. The shooter could even hit the engine and put the car into fire.

We are lucky that it was the tires. It could have even hit the front windows and been dangerous for the driver and other people in the vehicle. That says it all and how far the government are willing to go after their enemy.

If Bobi Wine wasn’t an enemy. Why are you using live bullets towards his car and towards his team?

That is the signal of this and the message I am getting from this. This is why things are directed towards him and with such fierce force. Peace.

Opinion: Museveni continues to tarnish the #FreeBobiWine demos and intimidate Police Officers…

I congratulate the UPDF for defeating the insurrection that the traitors, with the foreign backers, attempted to stage a few weeks back. The Police Force must be made to do its duty of defending Ugandans from lawlessness, threat to life and property, any police person, that does not do this, must leave the Police. There are thousands ready to replace them” (Yoweri Kaguta Museveni – New Appointments memo to the UPDF & UPF, 16.12.2020).

Today the new appointments and changes within the leadership in Uganda People’s Defence Force aka National Army and Uganda Police Force was official. As the President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni made swift changes and moved around personnel. This is not new, but something he does irregularly.

What was more striking than the actual changes was the way he ended it. As the old man with the hat. Was proud of the killings of the plain-clothed soldiers and armed personnel who did the extra judicial killings, which was promised to be investigated, but nothing has happened. That is not strange when the President is proud of it and continues to push unsubstantial claims without any evidence. As he is backed by foreigners and his budgets has been for years. So, him saying that is nonsense until any proof is delivered. Which will never happened. Just like we never got any evidence of the Arua stone.

It is tragic that the President is like this, but he lives and thrives on fear. President Museveni needs that to be in office. That is why his using these means and saying it this way. That he states it like this about the #FreeBobiWine riots or demonstrations. Where he cannot prove anything and neither can any of “his” security organizations. Calling citizens traitors, but not proving the treachery. That is a huge charge on citizens without any evidence.

The way the Police Force is addressed is also striking. That he says its easily to change the personnel and the police officers. This means for him that anyone else is replaceable, but not himself ironically. The Police can easily be replaced by someone else. They are told they are not doing their job good enough. Which is also intimidating them and inciting fear of their job. That their work is on the line and someone else can come in their place. To say that is challenging them to deliver.

That is what the President does and he does it a month ahead of the polls. This is clearly a message to them. To ensure the Police Officers acts accordingly and be vigilant towards the demonstrators and possible riots. The ones that doesn’t follow can leave the Force.

This says how much the President values the most important reasons for his prolonged time in power. The ones that is on the frontline for him He clearly doesn’t value them and sends them threats too. The Afande, Kifeesi and everyone else should know this. Peace.

Electoral Commission: Press Release – Electoral Commission Directs Presidential Candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu to Comply with Election Guidelines and Respect Covid-19 Standard Operating Procedures (15.12.2020)

National Unity Platfrom: Northern Uganda Regional Office – Statement on Human Rights Violations in Northern Uganda (14.12.2020)

Opinion: Tumukunde proving his entitlement with his dismissal of Bobi Wine

Being a president is a challenging task which calls for advanced experience which the NUP leader does not have” Lt. Gen. Henry Tumukunde in Bubulo East, Namisindwa district on the 15th December 2020.

From a man that has failed in several position in government. The high and mighty, the man who thinks his ego and his entitlement is sky-rocketing. It is like these NRA historicals and NRM stalwarts thinks only the ones going in the school of Museveni have the edge or ability to take over. Because they have sit around the round-table or taken out the sword of the stone. So, these folks have followed the personal cult of Mr. 1986.

It is like these NRA and NRM big-men thinks they have the secret codes to the treasure chest and can only open it up. Not like anyone else can ever succeed the President. Tumukunde is mocking Bobi wine, as he thinks you need a certain skill and entail on thing. Heck, if this is like that. Why haven’t anyone in the ranks of NRM succeeded Museveni?

Well, he doesn’t think anyone of you are good enough or popular enough. It is a reason why Bobi Wine is mentioned. They use his profession … and his past. Not like the same folks saying this hasn’t skeleton in the closet and proven failures. Like Tumukunde himself. It is a reason why he gotten sacked and axed by the President. However, he still dismiss someone else.

It is like these guys needs a special training. It is not supposed to be institutions, laws and a constitution that the President have to uphold. That he will have advisors and have people around making him better. Not like he will rule supreme alone. That is if he cares about governance and service delivery. As it shouldn’t be a one man circus, but a government governing. This is if the incoming President.

However, that is not something Tumukunde thinks off or considers himself. Because, everyone is on an island running the state. A President is supposed to be the “Fountain of Honour” and “His Excellency” without any safeguards or oversight over. This is what the NRM is used too and that is why the President at this point is untouchable.

Tumukunde is mocking the wrong man and showing ignorance. That is not new. That is why his bitching about the state crashing his rallies and blocking him from campaigning. The man who took a chopper and crashed Mbabazi at one point. This man is a token loyal NRM cadre. He will be that, because he hopes for a plum-job when this is over. That is why he says this. To prove to his master that his still one his guys.

Tumukunde is showing his loyalty. As he see no prospect of a Bobi Wine presidency. However, Tumukunde would have most likely said the same about anyone else. Initially stating that Museveni is the only man. Therefore, just showing his a pawn in the game of the Entebbe State House. Peace.

Opinion: UCC goes only after Bobi Wine Friendly Youtube Channels …

The Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) wrote a letter to Google INC on the 9th December 2020, as they stated that several accounts was breaching Ugandan Law through the Youtube Platform. These accounts, channels and media houses that is targeted just happening to be People Power and Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine friendly ones. They are not going after anyone who has made accounts praising the President or the NRM. No, they are just targeting a selective 14 channels on Youtube and Facebook. It is very intentional.

That the UCC does this isn’t shocking nor surprising. This is the same UCC who has blocked opposition from appearing on radio broadcasts and blocked people from wearing red berets on TV shows. This government entity is working as the good servant for the Presidency and his vision. The UCC is a slave to the President and all of his actions. If they weren’t that. It wouldn’t have acted like this. Muffling the free speech and using the law to suppress alternative media. If the UCC cared about that. They would have targeted these actions differently, alas they do it now in midst of campaigning. As they know no other follows the opposition and particularly Bobi Wine like these media outlets.

These fourteen in question is: TMO Online, Fred Lumbuye, Trending Channel UG, Uganda Yaffe, Uganda News Update, Ghetto TV, Busesa Media Update, Uganda Empya, Map Mediya TV, KK Tv, Ekyooto TV, Namungo Media, Jil Muwonge 2 and Bobi Wine 2021.

These 14 entities are on Youtube and these channels have to follow Terms of Services. These channels have to follow laws and the jurisdiction to the Youtube and Google. These entities are following the usage and rightfully so. They are putting out content, because of the ability to do so. If they are putting out content that is deemed illegal or unfit for Google/Youtube. The company can strike them, they can suspend and they can delete it. This is being done on a regular and they can also get demonetized as well… which means that the entities or channels can loose ad revenue, if Youtube deem it unfriendly and make it unprofitable content. That is also something they do to their creators. Therefore, the UCC is sending a warning and possibly making this possible for these channels.

However, the UCC doesn’t have a direct connection or control here. The Google/Youtube enterprise is following laws and statutes from elsewhere. Therefore, the question is in another dominion. Meaning, this can only be a plea by the UC to shut these down or suspend them. However, the UCC doesn’t deliver anything substantial. Other than some nice wordings in a long letter, but no direct proof of the allegations. They are not proving which videos or clips that is horrific or “hate speech”. That is why this is very fruitless.

The UCC is acting as the mouthpiece of the President. He only wants UBC, UBC lite versions out there and New Vision outlets. Which only spew out his propaganda. The President only wants his words and his “victories”. The man doesn’t want other things out and that is undermining his standing in the public. As people are getting news, views and perspective outside his controlled media space. This is why the UCC is going after these 14 Youtube Channels.

The UCC wouldn’t do this, if they wasn’t interested to prove their loyalty. These channels are only targeted because they dare to make content, which is friendly to the main opponent Bobi Wine. If they weren’t they wouldn’t be in trouble or hit like this. Peace.

Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine letter to Chairperson Simon Byabakama of Electoral Commission – Subject: Persistent Breach of Election Guidelines/Standard Operation Procedures to Contol the Spread of COVID-19 Pandemic (14.12.2020)

Bobi Wine wasn’t arrested last night, but was forced to sleep roadside in the middle of nowhere

We spent the night on dusty roadside in the middle of nowhere but the struggle continues. Nextstop Lamwo, Kitgum and Karenga” – NUP Presidential Candidate” (91.8 Boona FM, 12.12.2020).

Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine spent most of the day yesterday on the road. Fist he was blocked to access Abletong by the Police Force in Lira. Where they also arrested several of the NUP campaign team, also assaulted journalists coving it. They confiscated their recording devices and such. Therefore, little video or photos of the events that folded last night.

As the night was upon the team that was stuck in one place for hours upon end. Actually close to ten hours in one spot. Not allowed to pass. The Police Force started to move the vehicles and guide them towards Kitgum. They forced the team to not campaign in the region, but was forcing them to go away.

They was left roadside by the Police Force to sleep. No access to a hotel or a lodge. Another night on the Campaign trail without a shelter. As the Police Force is blocking all decency out of this campaign.

Yes, Bobi Wine wasn’t arrested, but he was still muffled with and injustice was served. Who in their right mind thinks it reasonable to be blocked from campaigning. Blocked from accessing hotels and now forced to sleep in the middle of nowhere. Because the Police is getting rid of you and not allowing you pass an area.

This is making Bobi Wine look like a fugitive and alien in his Republic. Where he is a citizen and Presidential Candidate. Where his not allowed to do the basics and neither allowed to work as politician. Just like the authorities blocked him from having concerts. It is the same thing all-over.

Sleeping on the roadside. Dropped in the middle of the night. Towing your car and forcing you to leave after hours of stalemate. That is what has transpired yesterday to this morning.

Don’t expect today or tonight to be any better. Another RDC and DPC in-charge who follows orders from “high above”. Peace.