Opinion: Naye Mzee…. You have worked with them throughout your whole career…

“People like [Speaker] Anita Among are not the problem. The real problem we have is the traitors working for foreigners. They are not mistake makers but outright traitors working for wrong foreigners like homosexuals and imperialists. How can you talk so much on social media about Anita Among instead of those traitors? I’m getting intelligence and we’re going to expose those traitors” – President Yoweri Tibuhurwa Kaguta Museveni (23.03.2024).

We are just supposed to be forgetful. We are just supposed to look away from the obvious and act indifferent. That’s what the President wants and he plays a blame game. It isn’t foreigners fault that the Parliament is corrupted, the foreigners aren’t partaking in the illicit funds and misuse of office in Parliament. That’s on the merit on the ones holding office in the Parliament right now.

Yes, the President uses sloganeering and familiar tropes. He uses vilification and creating invisible enemies that works with an invisible hand to influence everyone. President Museveni thinks we have forgotten and that we are all delusional.

We all know that Museveni was a donor darling and a beloved character in the West. We know that the state, his government and all institution got a giant boost by foreign direct government aid. We have seen how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank has directly changed output and guided the state after the bush-war. It is not like the government haven’t had a large part of the funding from outside sources, which means foreign influence directly in the pockets of the President. So, he should speak less of foreign traitors and look into his own actions first.

President Museveni has fought the “war on terror” on behalf of the West. Museveni have accepted using his armies in the “dirty” wars that the Western armies doesn’t want to touch. His armies have been deployed, trained and gotten ammunition as a pay for doing these services. We are supposed to forget that part too. That’s how has been beloved by Clinton and W. Bush. That’s just something we are supposed to forget aren’t we.

That’s why homosexuals and foreign interference is bad in 2024. When the old man has spent fortunes of donations and aide over the years. The President has wasted foreign funds over decades. While the funds from outside has been diminishing of late, that’s because his not following the interests of the donors. He is going in his own tune and that’s why he has to take out loans to cover the deficit in his budgets. Therefore, his mad at the donors who doesn’t follow his every whim. That’s what his “yes-men” does and Presidential Advisors does.

So to defend the Speaker by speaking ill like this… it isn’t working. Especially when you have knowledge of how someone has operated over the years. The Bretton Woods and the UN Organizations has come in with massive relief. They have shielded and taken a load of the President head. He has gotten it easier because they captured the shortfall when he needed it. They delivered where his state couldn’t and that’s why its rich calling them traitors now. When he traded shots, bulletins and speeches with them in the past. He would have enjoyed the glory in 2024 if he could. The President would have danced in Washington D.C. if someone allowed him. However, that’s not the case…. And we know it.

Shiish. Sigh. This is tiring and repetitive. Peace.

Uganda Law Society (ULS) – Joint Working Committee on Certificates of Succession – Further Concerns on Judicial Independence and Imparitality (19.02.2024)

Opinion: Good riddance Sobi

This week it was breaking news that Paddy Sserunjogi aka “Sobi” the gangster and leader of the “Kifeesi” gang died over a land wrangle in Gombe district. Sobi has been the man of the hour and for a reason.

Sobi after being captured by the authorities in 2012 was recruited to become an Intelligence Operative under the Operations Unit of the Uganda Police Force. That was done by then IGP Kale Kayihura.

In addition to that there is also revealed that Sobi also have worked for the CMI and ISO. Together with his group and that’s why he served the nations with fierce force. We don’t know to what extent he acted or what his total score of brutality. This is only a chosen few knows and they are also the ones who will not talk about what he really did.

Nevertheless, the likes of Sobi is serving the interests of the state. The state and the authorities needs their butchers, killers and willing men to torture innocent civilians. Sobi and his merry men are following orders and directly participating in misuse of power. They where kept in peace and allowed to operate, because he does the dirty deeds the state needs someone to do.

That Sobi did some thieving and looting on the past time didn’t matter. For the state he was an asset and he acted on their behalf. Whatever evil he did behind closed doors or without warrants was just fine.

Sobi did the dirty work of the authorities. He served for a purpose and that’s was his whole value to society. He acted on their behalf and wasn’t concerned with the lives that he touched. As an operative of the state. Now there will be conspiracies and everyone else will claim different things.

However, the main reality is one gang leader or gangster is now gone. A man who used violence and brutality to get ahead. He was promoted and got titles for doing so. As a gangster and a officer he was untouchable. A man of many hats and someone who could get away with murder. That’s who he is and we saw it for years.

The Kifeesi gang is well known and its are reason why it got away with it. That’s for one reason and they were useful. Now they have taken down the leader and the head of it. Just like they got rid of Kiatta of Boda Boda 2010. He got into legal jeopardy and isn’t anyone anymore. However, Sobi isn’t alive or breathing. His totally gone and that’s most be for another reason.

We will never know the real reason for his death. The state will announce one reason and claim, but there will never be an honest investigation into the murder. There will be reports and hearsay, but nothing verified. While his remains are buried a long time ago. He will become a cold-case and only after the regime is over. Then there is hope that someone will find the truth behind his end.

Sobi deserves justice like any man, even a man of injustice and impunity. His victims deserves justice and everyone he touched should get the same. All the victims of Sobi should have their day, but we know that won’t happen either.

Sobi doesn’t deserve credit or accolades. He was at one point Teflon and now it was his time to get touched. Death is brutal and it’s the final end. That’s an ending he served others and now someone did the same to him. Most likely he wasn’t prepared or mentally there. He never thought they would this to him. They couldn’t do this, because his services was needed by the state. However, we will see the state kills its own and they will never offer anyone mercy. That’s why Sobi is now gone.

People’s will not cherish his memory and neither reflect kindly on his legacy. He was a henchman and a gangster. Those aren’t beloved, but are feared. Death does not absolve him of his misdeeds or sins. These now have to be answered to by God and he will decide his fate now. Peace.

Uganda: State House – Press Statement (03.12.2023)

Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF): Press Statement on the Tourists’ Attack (18.10.2023)

Uganda: State House Uganda – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni – Statement (18.10.2023)

Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA): Two Tourists and a Guide killing along Katwe Road (17.10.2023)

Uganda: Should this be a final warning to the tourists who wants to visit the nation?

“We have registered a cowardly terrorist attack on two foreign tourists and a Ugandan in Queen Elizabeth National Park. The three were killed, and their safari vehicle burnt. Our joint forces responded immediately upon receiving the information and are aggressively pursuing the suspected ADF rebels. We express our deepest condolences to the families of the victims” – CP Fred Enaga (Uganda Police Force, 17.10.2023).

“BREAKING: Suspected rebels have killed tourists and burnt their car in Queen Elizabeth National Park along Katwe Road” (Pulse Uganda, 17.10.2023).

In the past there been kidnappings and other ones that has lost their lives in National Parks in Uganda. The republic has been hit by unknown assailants before and this isn’t a concept that is new.

This is yet again an attack on tourist who just happened to be on a game-drive in a National Park. They just visited the Republic wanted to see the sights, the wildlife and what else the nation has to offer. These won’t return home and neither will driver/guide.

It will cause a stir. This will have ramifications and will be a direct warning. Some might cancel their trips to Uganda. They might easily chose another destination and travel to another country. Just because the news of the fatalities and the terrorist attack.

The Police Force was quickly out with the culprits behind it. As it is only mere days ago that the President said the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) attacked and severely damaged the ADF capabilities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). However, here we are and we can only speculate.

The innocent in the conflict died here. The tourists and national drive. All of them died without a connection to the grievances or the ones who is behind their murders. They died unknowingly and without a cause.

We just have to wait and see what the investigations does say, but the UPF was early calling it out. As the smoke hadn’t really been calmed. They just said it and you can wonder for what reason. Every time something bad happens, it is easy to call “ADF” but that’s the same “ADF” that President proclaims that is close to defeated or losing in the DRC. That’s why you beg to question and wonder who is really behind the mischief… I don’t know… but someone has wonder and be bugging.

Innocent lives was taken… lives that could have been spared. That’s the gist and it will have ramifications for several of tourist companies and employees. As this will spark headlines and be caught by foreign news networks. Which in the end… will make tourist change their plans and go elsewhere, even if the authorities says it is “safe”. They heard the news of the “murder” and now they want to go somewhere where that didn’t happen recently. Peace.

Obusinga wa Rwenzururu has returned, but the ones lost isn’t forgotten about just yet…

“After close to seven years of no occupancy, the once glamorous palace of the Obusinga wa Rwenzururu lies in ruins. Overgrown grass and dilapidated structures are what Charles Wesley Mumbere found when he returned to his kingdom” (NBS Television, 04.10.2023).

The day of the 27^th November 2016 will not be lost on us. As the mass-graves was hastily built and the people who killed was buried. The Buhikira Royal Palace was burned down, while Royal Guards and others was killed. As the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) and Special Forces Command (SFC) had “shoot to kill” orders, as they where trailing the “Kirumamutima” aka “The Strong Hearted” and even the ones that was supposed to work for the “Yiira Republic”. Which all has ceased and never heard of since the day of the massacre in Kasese.

The culprits and the ones in-charge on that lethal day has been living lavish. They have gotten promoted and gotten into good graces with the government. While the Obusinga Bwa Rwenzururu and 217 others was kept behind bars for years. They were all charged with serious offences and blocked from being on bond. Some died behind bars as the years went on from 2016… and that just show the sinister side of all this. People didn’t just die on that one day, but other victims happened later as a consequence of the brutality of the state.

That’s why it is hard to celebrate today. I see the pictures and the crowds celebrating the Kings return to Kasese. That’s all long overdue and the charges pinned on him was all “political”. It was done to undermine the Rwenzururu and the Rwenzori sub-region, which has for the most part voted for the opposition of late. Therefore, to take down the King would be a fitting message from the authorities.

They used a “terrorist” threat and “insurgency” as a way of masking their own interests in Kasese. That’s who defended their atrocities and massive murder spree. The November Day in 2016 will be forever marked in memory. As the burning palace and the knowledge of a massacre went down, which have never gotten rectified. There been no honest investigation or arrests of the ones who ordered it. That’s because this was accepted and done so from the top. The victims became the “culprits” and the “criminals” while the actual ones are left off the hook. That’s the double tragedy here…

That’s why it’s not strange that the King comes back to a destroyed court. His palace is gone and whatever that remains is only a faded memory. As he has been years in exile and in prison. Him and his fellow guards all suffered. Not only the lives of loved ones, but also loss of ordinary life. They couldn’t return or rebuild. These people was stuck in prison and couldn’t fix things again. The victims couldn’t mourn or even try to grief. They were in a legal jeopardy and seemingly there was no return in sight.

We know the Generals involved will not be touched. They are above it all and so is anyone else. Therefore, a real investigation could only happen after a transition of power and possible new leadership of the Republic. Because, the current one doesn’t targets its own and the ones loyal to its causes. That’s why we know the ones behind Kasese massacre of 2016 gets away with it. Not because its righteous or fair. No, because of titles and statures within the regime.

A regime that don’t mind the killing, murder or massacre to stay in power. It sent a signal and a region was hurt. A region that is still hurting and without answers. They deserve it, but will not get it currently. That would undermine the powerful ones today and the ones who wants to be in power tomorrow. Peace.

Ker Kwaro Acholi: Statement on continued Violence in Apaa (01.09.2023)