Opinion: Kololo and the Parliament are only for the special one…

In the last few days the National Unity Platform (NUP) was blocked from having their 4 Year Anniversary at the Kololo Independence Grounds. Days later the authorities has now blocked and disengaged with the organizers of the march to Parliament on the 23rd July 2024.

All of this is happening days apart and is a part of a bigger story. A story with one main culprit and his sort of governance. That is all connected to the false liberation and the bush-war era, which is only allowing “one vision” and following the NRA Way. The ones who falls astray and goes elsewhere has to be crashed, destroyed or silenced. That’s what is the matter here…

The NUP dared to ask and hope to hold a celebration at the Kololo. The Kololo that is used for government events, the Presidential Affairs and whatever the National Resistance Movement (NRM) deems fit. That’s a place for the government, His Excellency and whoever are in association with him. Others aren’t deemed fit or only if they entertain, bring the bread and circus and goes home. That’s whose allowed there and the NUP would never bring that to the table.

The Parliament on the other hand is just totally mute. That the civilians and the citizens dared to ask this question. They are by law and by the constitution allowed to gather or even assemble in demonstrations. However, we know by the Public Order Management Act (POMA) that this has been restricted and stopped plenty of times. The state will attack it viciously and without any hesitation to answer with lethal means. That has been shown before and would happen again if the public would dare to go against the will of the authorities.

The NRM and Museveni have no interests for the NUP or the demonstrations outside the Parliament. The public are supposed to be subdued and not care. They are supposed to be happy with cents on the dollar. They are supposed to be silent and await the next dance. Not supposed to question the authorities or even speak out against that.

The President cannot have that. The state cannot accept that sort of behaviour. The citizens are just supposed to relieve themselves and be silent. Not act upon their best interests or speak. That’s who they are supposed to be. Therefore, the President and the Authorities aren’t interested in hearing their grievances. They are supposed to be beggars and be lucky for mere shillings randomly.

The lesson here is that state is a closed of scene. The ones who fights or speaks out against it will be met with force. Citizens should be allowed to carry out their duties, but we know the gist of the NRM. We know the parties are blocked and not allowed entry at certain stages. That is what is happening everywhere and it’s been going on for years.

Museveni and NRM can lie to the world, but we all know their game. They are giving no way and telling people they got the answers. There will be no celebration and the march will be shut down. The one who dares to challenge the state will suffer. The state has no issues to abduct, torture or even kill. That’s what it does…

The crickets are maybe silent, but sooner or later the truth will come out. The skeletons will be revealed. The authorities and the state cannot hide the reality forever. That’s who it is and how it operates. Peace.

National Unity Platform (NUP): Statement on the High Court Judgment Condemning the Abduction and Illegal Detention of Suspects (10.07.2024)

Opinion: Bobi Wine’s lesson towards Mpuuga

You come and join the group led by Kyagulanyi whom you know are ‘drunkos’ and drug users? They appoint you to be deputy president to that one who leaders these ‘drunkos’ and drug users. You accept and even thank them. The same group appoint you the leadership of opposition and you even clap and thank them. The drug users appoint you commissioner, you accept and thank them” – Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine (05.07.2024).

Some day, somehow, somewhere they will discuss the stalemate and the political arguing between Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine and Mathias Mpuuga MP. That will be the talk and show the vast difference between them too.

Today’s Press at the National Unity Platform (NUP) Headquarters was about more than internal squabble. It was about deeper issues and more pressing ones. I only reflect this one, because this the most direct Bobi Wine has been. The party itself has directed and given warnings to Mpuuga MP, which he has ignored. Only talked about further consultation and whatnot. While trying to look supreme and hold a Thanksgiving to look more prestigious. While he has shunned functions and haven’t participated within the ranks as he used too. Therefore, being defiant by the party that gave him room, trusted him and gave him the ability to live a lavish life.

Alas, that’s why its ironic that he said these things over the weekend in Mityana District!

Tell those interested in leadership positions to stop going to bars, getting drunk and smoking marijuana” (…) “If you want to be a leader, you must be sober 24 hours a day. The person we want to push away doesn’t go to bars, he’s always sober. And he doesn’t even drink wine” – Mathias Mpuuga (30.06.2024).

Mpuuga needs to listen to Bobi Wine. He needs to acknowledge what sort of role the NUP gave him. How they have entrusted him and how he betrayed their cause. Mpuuga MP was supposed to be working towards the same goal as his party. However, he went astray and found other greener pastures. That’s why his been eating of people’s plate and doesn’t want to be held accountable for feast he was served.

Certainly Bobi Wine cannot accept it. That’s why the NUP tried to direct and talk sense to Mpuuga MP. They wanted him out as a man of an honourable role in Parliament. They entrusted him with the role of Commissioner and that’s a role he misused. We can just wonder if he did the same as Leader of Opposition. Nevertheless, the trust is broken and there is no return back to normal. Especially, when Mpuuga is defying the party and not following the directions it has given him.

Bobi Wine only did what was right and called Mpuuga MP out on his nonsense. As his more working against the party that gave him a role and blessed him with opportunities. Not like he could have the same sort of opportunities or ability to national prominence in the Democratic Party. No, that wouldn’t be the case and Mpuuga MP knows that.

It is time for Mpuuga MP to reflect upon himself. Think why he went this way and why he corrupted his soul. It’s depressing seeing how he has become and what his willing to do. Such a character assassination and his pulling the gun himself. Doing a Russian roulette in plain sight and for everyone to see. He should know better, but pride is taking the best of him. The hubris and arrogance isn’t helping him either, Just because his eloquent in speaking doesn’t mean his a great character amongst men. No, it is just means he has some big words to flex and sound better than common folk. That’s it, but his not… and the “service award” will haunt him indefinitely. Peace.

Opinion: Mpuuga wants to be in the headlines…

“This country is looking for leaders in the coming years. It could be 2026 or beyond. They (NUP) know that in the corridors of power, my name is surfacing; those discussing politics and national leadership have my name on the front pages” – Mathias Mpuuga (July 2024)

The former Leader of Opposition and current Parliamentary Commissioner, the National Unity Platform (NUP) Member of Parliament, Mathias Mpuuga thinks high and mighty about himself. Not it’s shocking of any sorts, as he just held his Thanksgiving in Masaka, but it wasn’t as big or creating as much buzz as the man wanted.

Mpuuga MP surely wanted the welcoming factor, which the NUP Mobilization Tour had in Masaka. Nevertheless, he was able to have a gathering and look fabulous for one day. While there was no big fanfare or huge crowds cheering his name.

We know Mpuuga MP wants to be relevant. He needs to be in the headlines and be newsworthy. We are seeing how he thinks about himself. A man who thinks he is above the rest. A man with the head above the clouds. A hero without a cape.

That’s who Mpuuga MP thinks he is. The MP who has been able to be appointed to honourable roles and looked as a promising leader. However, his greed and ambition is self-serving. Instead of being a honourable and a representative for the betterment. His a man who fights his own wars for his own benefit. That’s why he cannot take orders and follow party line when it asks for it.

We understand why Mpuuga MP is a journeyman who has joined forces with Go-Forward, been a Democratic Party MP and is now NUP MP. Therefore, his a man who can easily change banners and does so for a meal-ticket. Before the 2026 he might join someone else or create his own. Meanwhile, he has not distanced himself totally from the NUP or the leadership that has rebuked him for his actions. The NUP tries to be credible and follow their principles, which is in contrast to Mpuuga MP himself.

Mpuuga MP would rebuke and come with strong warnings against people like himself. When he was a younger activist, he would have written Press Releases and Pieces as Activists for Change (A4C) Coordinator against greedy MPs like himself. That’s who he used to be and now he wants to be praised for his eloquent English. Alas, there is more than just being able to use “big words” to become a “big man”.

He can think his the future, but that future is thwarted by his own actions. People remember the Service Award and how he didn’t act righteous. How can you believe such a shallow and greedy man? What can be his next trick?

This man can easily find ways to eat of the public coffers and defend it with ease. That’s who Mpuuga is. Peace.

Opinion: Nabbanja has forgotten her role…

“The government has done so many things, but our common people, have not got rich. If they don’t want to get rich in peace, we shall make you rich by force. We shall take you to the police and make a statement on why your brother is rich as you remain poor” – Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja (30.06.2024)

It isn’t the fault of the citizens that the government programs aren’t working. It isn’t the citizens fault that they are not able to participate or get benefits from the government programs. That is the fault of the government that haven’t made programs that fits the citizens.

This is the issue of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) who is making the same sort of program and policies, but only changes the names. They are pushing for same sort of silver-lining bullet, but it won’t hit as hard as they want it too. These sorts of promises has been made before and never properly implemented.

It is rich that the Prime Minister wants to apprehend and get statements from citizens who fails to benefit from these government schemes. It isn’t like these schemes has been tailor-made for them or been studied for the needs of the citizens before launching. They are often used to siphoned funds and misuse of office of a few. Ghosts are paid and the living are only seeing a few cents on a dollar. So, please Prime Minister explain why it’s the poor’s fault when the state is failing.

We have seen micro-finance schemes since the 1990s from the NRM. Nevertheless, these schemes and programs haven’t amounted to anything substantial. They haven’t been the one thing to get people out of poverty. Neither has the government ensured enough financial policies to ensure a safeguard and trust in the economy. They are leaving people behind and not taking itself into account.

That’s why its easy for the PM to blame the citizens. The PM is blaming the ones she’s serving in office and wants to give them punitive action. Instead of trying to understand or find new measures to help people out. She’s instead wanting to humiliate and mock the ones struggling already.

That’s the reality here… all the poor who never gets out of poverty is a sign of where the NRM lost its way. It has had close to 4 decades in power. The NRM has had the time and ability to make a difference, but it hasn’t delivered anything yet. That is a tale of lost time and lost decades. A time that was misused and was a trick of the trade.

The PM should consider her stance, maybe show some empathy, and maybe even humble herself a little bit. It is a reason why people are poor, and the state is a reason for it. The way it top-down things and doesn’t work from bottom-up. That’s one reason, which it has never considered or reflected upon. However, if it did… then the high-ranking officials couldn’t eat of their plate or find tricks of the trade to benefit themselves on behalf of the poor. Peace.

Opinion: Speaker Among lacks decorum…

We can’t say that our members are corrupt, even if some of our members have been arrested and are in prison, there us a presumption of innocence. Honourable members, can you shut up? Please! There is a presumption of innocence, you can’t say somebody is a thief. How many members are in the Budget Committee? There are 65 members on the Budget Committee” – Speaker Anita Among (02.07.2024)

Yes, the Speaker of the August House, Anita Among is right that there is an ideal that your innocent until proven guilty. That is right, but when there is already established siphoned funds, misuse of office and eating of the state platter for personal benefit. That’s when you know the person or MP has gone from innocent to guilty. An MP or a Minister who uses their office to take funds for personal benefit is in the wrong. As they are there to serve their constituents and represent their nation too.

Speaker Among is really all hubris. Sooner or later she will have a downfall, as she’s to arrogant for her own good. Just imagine the lack of character and finesse to speak gently in a plenary session. Speaking to MPs like a Primary Teacher does to loudmouth kids in class. Seriously, we should expect more much out of her. However, that we know is futile.

The grand corruption and misuse of office is such common place that she’s tired of defending it. She is tired of being a ring-leader in a den of thieves. The thievery is so common placed and daily appearance that we aren’t shocked of missing funds or lacking delivery of government services. While the MPs and other high ranking officials are spending money like there is no tomorrow. This shows the priorities and how money is used.

Speaker Among can act a fool and try to outsmart the naive ones. Nevertheless, the truth remains of the usage of funds and spending. The House is misusing funds and enlarging their own accounts on the expense of the public. The state is seemingly more involved in enriching its representatives over giving proper service delivery. Therefore, the Speaker can lie and deceive, but that doesn’t make it more true.

The Speaker should shut up and give evidence for her words for once. She’s a magician of hearsay and lack of documentation of her statements. As a speaker she should be credible, but that’s to much to ask.

Speaker Among is a disgrace and her manners shows it too. She expects others to honour her, but she has no courtesy towards others. Peace.

Public Square: Statement on the GROW Project Inquiry (01.07.2024)

Opinion: The Ssabagabe gives you electricity…

You are in darkness because you voted for bad representatives; you voted for NUP. Now I have to shoulder your burdens and give you electricity” – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (27.06.2024).

The King of Kings (Ssabagabe) orders and decree things. He lives supreme and have all powers. His a man of words and his opinion matters. He is the true definition of power and a demi-god amongst men. That’s who President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni thinks of himself.

After all these years in power. After all this time. His still as vindictive and narrow minded. There is no relent or forgiveness. Alas, there is wherein lay the whole problem to his reign. That his so fixated at micro managing and not taking the whole picture. He rather scope on one minor transaction or con. Instead of thinking of the whole system, the whole package and how it works. That’s why his regime is built like it is.

President Museveni can say to the people of Kalerwe that they voted for the wrong people in the recent elections and that’s why they don’t have elections. West Nile have voted for plenty of National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidates for years, but they are still not on the national grid. I’m sure Karamoja sub-region are well established as “heartland” for the NRM, but they lack electricity too. So, this isn’t a party thing and who is associated where. This is a broader based problem and a lack of institutionalized or proper budgeting for the basic infrastructure. That’s what is the key issue here and his politicking about it.

The President should be horrified that this is an issue in the capital and so close to the Central Business District of Kampala. It isn’t far from Kalerwe to the Square or the Nile Avenue for that matter. You don’t have to use long time on a boda-boda to get from Kalerwe to the most central parts of Kampala. This just shows how little development and how little investment there have been to basic infrastructure like this. When it haven’t even gotten to Kalerwe.

This is government failure to provide proper services. The electricity should work regardless who they vote for. That should be something the citizens has access too and can afford. This is a failure of the “middle-income” nation that King of Kings always speaks loud about.

Ssabagabe shows his tyranny and his ruthlessness with action towards fellow citizens. It isn’t a sign of a Statesman or a “father of the nation” which is how he wants to portray himself. Instead it shows his arrogance and his bitterness of not being a beloved character. That’s because of stuff like this. Because, who as a leader would speak like this and think they would ever vote for you. It is something he should have fixed decades ago. It should have been a priority from the year of 1986, but we are seeing that this isn’t the case.

The fraud, the fake and the hypocrite of a man is exposing himself. The self-proclaimed King cannot be humble or try to act sincere to people. Instead he malign them, but he is the one that should be begging them. As he is a custodian of them and he represents them all. However, that is forgotten thing in the mind of the President.

That’s because the Ssabagabe is supreme and the rest of us is just mere mortals. Peace.

Opinion: Gen. Moses Ali wants to die in office…

“Anybody can contest with me in 2026. I have no problem. It’s you to make your choice, I still have the energy to serve the people of Adjumani West. Let me repeat myself that I will contest again” – Gen. Moses Ali (26.06.2024).

The former rebel and close ally of the President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Gen. Moses Ali has no plans to retire or stop being a high ranking official. He has been an Member of Parliament since 2011 and a main-stay in the cabinet as a secretive agreement with Museveni of old.

So, we have seen the General always getting appointed and it shows. Gen. Moses Ali have now had several of terms as MP and been in Cabinet. There isn’t a time where the 85-year-old haven’t been part of government. Therefore, he won’t give up his meal ticket anytime soon.

Gen. Moses Ali will continue to be in the cabinet and wanting the additional funds of being an MP. He has gotten that for decades now. President Museveni surely has him close because of the agreement and political framework they made back in the day. That’s why he has always a place for him and he cannot retire the old man.

The General seems to be an everlasting figure in the Republic. He won’t relent or give more youthful people space. No, he wants to eat and live the lavish life. Not that he has the energy or ability as in the past. That is part of life and aging.

The former rebel and token ally of Museveni should consider retirement now. We know he won’t do it himself. Because he knows the NRM Primaries will be easy and after that the system is rigged for him to return. That’s why he don’t have to campaign or act in any other way.

President Museveni likes loyal people like Gen. Moses Ali. A man who is there and who will be there for him. Neither creating drama, scandals or anything else either. Just another old bloke eating of his plate. Peace.

Public Square: Statement on Corruption at Microfinance Support Centre (26.06.2024)