Opinion: “Everyone” over 18 years old is apparently a NRM member

“From the 18.3 million members we had, we now have 20.7 million” – NRM Secretary General Richard Todwong (27.03.2025).

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) claims they have 20,7 million members. That is a bold claim in a nation or Republic that has 23,154,716 citizens over 18 years old. So, the NRM just lacks 3 million from having every single grown person in the Republic. Yes, the nation has 45 million citizens. So, the NRM has about half or 50% of the population, but of that they have “everyone” eligible.

The striking part of all of this is the bold claim that anyone could go to their neighbour and ask if they are members. As the NRM should have 1 out of 2 of all citizens. That sort of numbers… are just bonkers and hard to believe. Soon the NRM has the numbers of 100% eligible members and membership, as the citizens are bound to be members and must be to get government services. That’s the next step, because at the moment it is rigged numbers and just made belief.

The NRM is just making the stats and cooking the numbers. There is no way this is real. Because, the NRM has lost the Buganda and the Baganda Kingdom. The Buganda has about 11 million in total of the 45 million citizens. They are just saying most part of them is members too. Because, the NRM has nearly everyone and such should also be credible in Buganda too. Just to make that as an example and that would be hard to believe. We have the UBOS who says in addition the 1,7 million people living in Kampala. It means those are also most likely members of the NRM too. This sort of juxtaposition doesn’t make sense…

This just shows what sort of lie the NRM is willing to lie about. It isn’t a clever lie and isn’t even masked properly either. The NRM is just making up numbers to look supreme. Because, how is this possible? If this was the case… then the President and his party should hold close to 90% of all votes everywhere. The nation should be totally behind NRM and the NRM party shouldn’t be afraid of the will of the people. That’s because the will of the people are the ones that align with the NRM. Alas… we know that isn’t the case and that’s why By-Elections looks like warzones.

This just shows the entitlement and arrogance of the NRM. When they think people are to stupid and cannot see the game they are playing. They are pushing this narrative ahead of 2026 elections. Just to give themselves excuses to have the majority and reasons for having most of the votes. Peace.

Reference:

Uganda Bureau of Statistics 2024: The National Population and Housing Census 2024 – Final Report – Volume 1 (Main), Kampala, Uganda.

Opinion: “Kabobi” lives rent free in Muhoozi’s mind… Part III

“Killing Kabobi is an easy job! Very easy. He says he likes boxing. I invite him to a boxing match” (…) “Kabobi is going to get the beating of his life soon! I will promote soldiers who kills him” (…) “Tell Kabobi I didn’t beat him enough in Arua! I’m coming for him again. This time I’ll beat him properly” (…) “I won’t stand in an election with Kabobi! I will simply shoot him dead” – Commander of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen. Muhoozi Kainerubaga (25.03.2025).

The saga continues of the Drunk Master and his fairytales from his chambers. As his a Senior Presidential Advisor and the CDF of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF). The leader of the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) and a General in his own rights, Mr. Muhoozi Kainerubaga, the son of the President. That is tweeting like a frantic manchild.

This isn’t the first or the last time that Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine gives Muhoozi sleepless nights, as the shadow of the opposition leader haunt him. Just like the idea of Dr. Kizza Besigye can frighten him too. They are the boogeymen that can unleash venom into his veins, apparently.

This is just magical how these ideas, thoughts and the need for revenge captures the imagination of the First Son of the President. Instead of coming with good reasoning or even solid arguments against his enemies. His instead going for the murder, the killing and the annihilation. That’s the only thing he knows and possesses his mind, his spirit and who he has become.

It is sad that a man of such influence, of such entitlement and arrogance is steeping this low. That he goes to these depts of destruction and lack of character. He should know better, but he has never had those lessons.

The General should be advised, but we know his only surrounded by “Yes-Men” and people looking for easy day-jobs. So, they want to be aligned with him and serve him beyond ordinary means. Because the General and his needs are easily fixed, and they can be seen as loyal cronies of his. That’s what he needs, and he begs for their attention as well. To boost his inflated ego and drive to be the supreme ruler of the Republic.

This man is a brute, a man who is used to using lethal means. That’s why speaks and thinks this way. It is a pattern and nothing new under the sun. Just another day in the life of the General. The man, the non-mythical and nonsensical leader who only got where he is because of birth. Muhoozi wouldn’t be where he is if it wasn’t for his father and everyone knows it. That must hurt a little bit, because it isn’t his character or his knowledge that brought him here. No, he wouldn’t have managed and he would have been a drunken nobody, mechanic or such.

We all know he wouldn’t have reached the hights of Senior Presidential Advisor or the CDF if it wasn’t for his lineage. Neither would he have reached so quickly into the ranks of General. That’s why he cannot phantom the promise and the popularity of Bobi Wine. Because he has support and is beloved by many. Meanwhile, the prestige and the arrogance of Muhoozi isn’t winning people’s hearts.

It is just proven that murder and Bobi Wine is figment of imagination of Muhoozi. He thinks, considers and speaks easily of killing an opponent. There is no joy in this. Only bare-naked threats, that we shouldn’t take to lightly. As this man has no heart or conscience to stop him from doing the unthinkable. If no one stops him or says “no”. This man could do it and we all could see it coming. Peace.

Kawempe North By-Election: The game is rigged…

Bambi… but why? Why even bother? It is just getting foolish by now. There is nothing to gain and it is just stalling for time. The Government, the Authorities and the whole embodiment of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) is just showing their arrogance, entitlement and disregard of the will of the people at this point. They are just showing their moves, acts and how they play.

The NRM and their candidate is taking people for fools and idiots when they filed in the petition and wanting a recount of votes. As the Electoral Commission had stalled the gazette and waited to officially send the documentation to the Parliament after the By-Election. Even after finalizing it and deliver a Return Form for Transmission of Results, which specifically said the National Unity Platform Candidate won this By-Election in the Kawempe North constituency.

It is just hogwash that the Return Form is saying 8593 votes for Fardiah Kigongo Nambi and on the gazette published today it says 9058. Meanwhile the NUP candidate went from 17764 to 17939. So, the numbers are jaded and for a purpose. That’s because the NRM and their candidate had already petitioned the Electoral Commission on the 21st March and now today the Gazette came into affect. Just like clockwork and today the team released the letter to petition the Electoral Commission, was dated back to the 21st March 2025. While the Return Form is dated to the 14th March 2024. It is just slowly grinding this and making everything to a halt.

The NRM isn’t even playing smart about it. Just like it wasn’t wise to publicly go around and beat people. Neither was it smart to use government machinery and the methods to boost the NRM candidate during the campaigns. It didn’t help that JATT and other entities brought violence, intimidation and caused havoc during the campaigns and the polls. The creation of war-zone is only undermining the efforts of the NRM itself, as it only shows their vicious and sinister side. Alas, the people won’t buy into that, but want to rebuke it.

The NRM isn’t capable or smart enough. This isn’t playing for the long haul, but for the short-con. This is trying to forge a narrative, but it cannot work. They are only showing their blatant disregard of the people and their will. It is only showing their inability to accept defeat and fight for another. That’s the reality here and a concept the NRM cannot phantom, I suppose.

The NRM lost and was bound to loose regardless, the NRM could have had Jesus as a candidate and they would lose this campaign. No one want to vote for the party of brutality, violence and intimidation. No matter how much they try to bribe and knock on people’s doors. No, they have lost their marbles.

This isn’t winning people’s hearts. Neither is this service delivery or being honest. It is just misuse of power and abusing the system, a system that is created by the NRM. The NRM is trying to juxtaposition itself. Just like Museveni sometimes wants to sound like an opposition to himself and the creation he has created. That’s just the game that the NRM plays and they take people for fools while doing so.

The game is rigged… and the ones rigging it wants to call foul. It should be fiction, but is our mere reality. This is who the NRM are in 2025. Peace.

Opinion: Adeke MP is right about the need of reducing the Parliament…

“We further propose that each district is represented in Parliament by of women and a man. Or on MP should represent at least 200,000 people while looking into account the size of the constituency and development of the infrastructure therein. These measures will achieve of reduction of the size of Parliament by 50% from the current 529 Members of Parliament. The legislature is also expected to do oversight and carry out checks and balances on the Executive. It is therefore difficult for MPs who ore also ministers lo superintend over the affairs of the state and of the same time do checks and balances on themselves” (Anna Adeke MP – Alternative Policy Statement – Public Service Sector FY 2025/26, 20.03.2025).

The Shadow Minister, Anna Adeke MP has dropped her alternative policy on the Public Service Sector. As a part of that… is the need for changes in the size and usage of the Parliament. That is needed, but she is talking into the void. This is cutting the pay checks and the ability of meal-ticket politicians who wants a seat in the Parliament.

“Uganda, on the other hand, with a population of 48.66 million people. has over 529 Members of Parliament, meaning that every legislator represents only 91,984 people. A leaner House would maximize member contribution to debates, as well as ensure more effective representation. We further propose that each district is represented in Parliament by a woman and a man. Or an MP should represent at least 200,000 people while taking into account the size of the constituency. These measures will achieve a reduction of the size of Parliament by 50% from the current 529 Members of Parliament” (Adeke MP, 24.03.2025).

This just shows the greatness and the deliberate game of electing MPs. That’s why several of them you only hear about during the campaigns and on the run for re-election. Certain MPs are just visible ahead of the polls, but are gone for the rest of the term. The runup to the 12th Parliament will not be significantly different from the 11th Parliament. Therefore, Adeke MP isn’t going nowhere with this.

The Members of Parliament isn’t really interested in this. They might say it publicly that it’s true and that is a waste of public funds. However, the MPs would also stop their chances and limited the number of seats. That’s why the MPs has added the number of seats and gerrymandering ahead of the polls. Just to ensure they can get elected and have their fellow allies elected too.

Anna Adeke MP is right on this position and policy, but who would vote to bite the hands that feeds you?

This here is doomed to fail. The sort of creation and made electoral policies has been made to ensure the National Resistance Movement (NRM) the majority and the control of the August House. That’s why things are made like this and that’s why the Parliament looks the way it is.

Anna Adeke MP speaking facts, but it doesn’t matter… because the MPs won’t be interested in making their life harder and making elections more hectic. They are already looked in and won’t risk to losing their day-job voting for this. We cannot see that happening anytime soon. That is a dream, but we are already in the long night of nightmares under the NRM. So, this here won’t happen but is a nice idea on a piece of paper. It is what the State and the Parliament needs, but the silent voices and the ones cashing in on it won’t vote against their own seats or offices. Peace.

Opinion: Mpuuga’s fault-lines

“I wrote to the leading opposition party (NUP) asking for a meeting. I haven’t received a reply. However, I saw their Secretary General spiting me personally. I think he doesn’t know the full degree of what he is dealing with” – Mathias Mpuuga MP (19.03.2025).

Some cannot see the slow train coming. Some might never see the train at all. Some people just see the railroad tracks and others only hears about stories about the iron horse. There is a lot of things at play…

The Democratic Alliance is now in action, as Mathias Mpuuga MP is outsmarted and outplayed by the National Unity Platform (NUP). That’s why he feels the pain of the former party and where he was bestowed respectable offices within the party and in the Parliament. They trusted him with being the Leader of Opposition and Commissioner just to mention a few. Therefore, he should have some regard of his former party. Nevertheless, his feeling sour and we can taste the bitter tears.

Mpuuga MP continues his attacks on the NUP!

“The Hon. Bobi Wine all due respect to him, mobilised people for a month to go to my constituency to speak ill about me” (…) “I have constrained myself a lot. If I spoke about certain things and individuals, you would be shocked. You would not know for example, how NUP would call MPs, one by one to educate them on how Mpuuga is a bad man” (Mpuuga, 19.03.2025).

The Member of Parliament and Coordinator of the DA should wonder where he is and how his perceived. As this sort of battle his never winning. His already on the road to become another Norbert Mao. He speaks of electoral reforms and only misses the promise of political transition. Mpuuga MP just shows his bitterness and it is clear that his forever scorned.

The MP could have gotten into a better position, if he had towed party lines and followed the direction the party gave him. Mpuuga in hubris and confidence believes that his able to gain attention and create a buzz. The man maybe think he can galvanize what he did during the A4C days, but this is a decade later.

Mpuuga MP needed the NUP to get elected. He ran away from the DP and TDA alliance that made him elected in the 2016 elections. So, in 2026 he will lose, and his DA isn’t a winning formula. It is a DP Block with a new PR Team and a possibly support of Alien Skin. This gameplan and moves aren’t building a proper machinery ahead of the 2026 polls.

As a man who has experience and is supposed to be a seasoned leader. His leadership and his building of alliances is failing. They aren’t even able to get Justice Forum (JEEMA) on its side. We can wonder if the PPP and others will also call it quits. There is little proof that the DA has a massive support among the opposition. Until proven otherwise… show it and deliver huge statement. Not just hallow words against Bobi Wine or the NUP. That’s no difference than the insults and drunken texts of Gen. Muhoozi Kainerubaga. This is maybe… why he has said he can work with him and that’s directly getting the regime behind him. It was just like when Mwenda said Mao was the most trustworthy fella or whatnot before the 2021 elections. So, are we really seeing the same nonsense again?

Mpuuga MP isn’t winning… Mpuuga needs to re-evaluate his stances and his moves. This won’t be it… Peace.

Opinion: AgaNaga – Spent a million for each voter he got [or close enough]

“To compete in this election, you need at least 200M, I have been moving with almost 100 people who are paid daily, the cars we used daily all take a lot of fuel, I have done all in the music everyone knows but now I have to venture into matters of national importance” – Sadat Mukiibi aka Kalifah AgaNaga (18.03.2025).

The man that got about 239 votes in the Kawempe North By-Election, Sadat Mukiibi aka Kalifah AgaNaga who ran as the flagbearer for the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC). They went out hard and tried to sway the public, but didn’t galvanize anyone. That’s why the candidate got such a bad result.

The loss is just so clear and the FDC could reflect on its downfall, as the musician turned politician didn’t have the message or the character to sway the public. They didn’t believe in his platform or words for that manner. If they did…

He would have more impact than a little over 200 people voting on him. The FDC and the candidate should have been in the realms of the NUP. He should have been in the scope of the two bigger candidates. The FDC shouldn’t be this sort of a failure in the race.

That AgaNaga used 200 million on this result. The FDC and him should self-reflect on the way they did it. The people of Kawempe North didn’t accept him or his candidacy. The citizens didn’t believe in him or trust his message. That’s why so few voted for him and they didn’t see it in him. This is the reality here… and the musician should go back to producing records.

This man has lost twice elections. AgaNaga haven’t been able to win and tried twice already. Neither is he a trusted fella, as he went from singing songs for Museveni to suddenly become a FDC candidate. Therefore, he is really just trying whatever gets him into office. This man doesn’t have it in him.

That is proven and 200 million shillings couldn’t save him either. The man cannot even spend correctly or strategically, because if he was… then he would know that is a waste of funds. Him spending this much and get nothing in return. That is a compelling case, but show how dire the loss is. Peace.

Opinion: The State House needs a Trillion shilling in this Financial Year alone

“The approved budget for State House for Financial Year 2024/25 was Shs 452.2 billion. ln January, about one month ago, State House come back to Parliament requesting to increase its budget by Shs 234.75 billion for classified expenditure. You obedient MPs approved it, bringing total State House budget to Shs 686.6 billion. They have come back again with another request of Shs 367 billion which if you approve, will bring State House 2024/25 financial year’s budget to Shs 1,053, 635,660,000 (Shs 1.053 trillion)” (MINORITY REPORT ON SUPPLEMENTARY EXPENDITURE SCHEDULE No 3 of FY 2024/25, 12.03.2025).

The State House, the President and his inner circle is budgeted to spend a total of one trillion shillings, which a total of 686 billion shillings are spent on confidential funds. That is close to 2/3 of the budget to spending without any transparency or accountability, as it is stipulated as confidential.

This is how the President and his inner circle are spending funds. It is really special that the State House needs such vast slush-funds and can easily access billions of shillings. This is why the President, and his people are enriched. They can spend as they like and no one can question it, as they have billions as their disposal and that will be used. It could be for anything and whatever whims the President has. He can afford it and has the money for it.

The residence of the President is surely eating funds. In a never-ending spending spree and there is no real pushback. Only acceptance and silent nods of the Republic. As the President is issued new votes and budget posts. The massive spending on the State House isn’t shocking but is telling about the vast funds that are there.

The State House getting 1 trillion shilling in this Financial Year is a misuse of funds. The State House should have lesser funds. There isn’t a need for 686 billion for confidential funds. That just shows what the state does and is willing to do. They can just spend funds like no tomorrow.

We don’t know where the 686 billion shillings are going, and it is special that the State House needs a Trillion Shillings in one year to operate. This is only the first supplementary budget, so expect this to get much worse. The State House will issue more supplementary budgets and needs. Therefore, expect it to drain the state of more funds in the near future. That’s coming its way. There will be all sorts of excuse and shortfalls. If it is water, vehicles or whatnot. Even buying more furniture or such…

This State House doesn’t care about service delivery or even about government programs. Not when they are willing to ask and spend monies in this manner. They can splash funds like tomorrow. That’s the story… and the President must live with it. He doesn’t mind and living lavish is his lifestyle now. He might act like he has a small salary, but he needs a Trillion to run his residence this year. Therefore, he must be rich and has expensive expenses. Peace.

A look into Bobi Wine’s Speech on the Kawempe North By-Election

We saw an election where almost all media houses recalled their staff from the field a few hours after voting had started, just to keep them safe from those who claimed they were securing the election. We saw an election where the main candidate’s nomination papers were seized by security operatives just hours before nomination; his supporters and mobilizers beaten and arrested; and his communication devices seized just hours before voting. Several of our comrades were beaten and imprisoned just for supporting our candidate. Many others are in hospital fighting for their life” (Bobi Wine, 17.03.2025).

Today the victor of the Kawempe North By-Election spoke to his own at the National Unity Platform (NUP) headquarters. As the aftermath of the By-Election is appearing and the spin of the loss for the regime and their party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM). The NRM are already working tirelessly and so is the President too. That has been shown and that’s why I have to reflect on the words of Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi who leads the biggest opposition party and was the party who retained the seat of Kawempe North.

When you read the speech of Bobi Wine. It is another type of play than Museveni. It just shows the difference of character and leadership. Just the way of navigating it and representing. That seems so natural for Bobi Wine. Meanwhile, Museveni is forcing himself and his ways on others.

I truly congratulate you Counsel Nalukoola for beating the seemingly impossible odds to sit amongst us here today as a Member of Parliament-elect. You were not declared winner because the regime wanted to. You were declared winner because the elaborate measures the people of Kawempe North took to protect their vote left the regime with no other alternative” (Bobi Wine, 17.03.2025).

This here isn’t a new story and Bobi Wine lived through the same thing when he got elected in Kyadondo East. He knows how the games is played and how you have to fight to keep it. There is nothing given in the Republic and especially not elected seas. The contested seats that the NRM wants to win and have control over. That’s why it is a battle and is such a mess to begin with, as the stakes are so high and the willingness of using force is very eminent of the state. Therefore, the prices of doing is costly and that’s proven again. So many lives has been scorned so one man could become an MP.

Dictator Museveni has since released a statement seeking to undermine the legitimacy of our victory and deflect blame for the criminality he unleashed on citizens in Kawempe” (…) “He accuses us of ballot-stuffing, voter intimidation, and results-tampering. But there is abundant video evidence showing his ministers accompanied by masked goons protected by gunmen engaging in this criminality. The destruction of ballot boxes in Kazo-Angola and other areas was not the work of the opposition—it was orchestrated by regime operatives to create a pretext for rejecting the otherwise legitimate results from an election they simply couldn’t win!” (Bobi Wine, 17.03.2025).

The projection of NRM and Museveni towards the NUP is just bonkers. The viral footage and pictures tells stories that Museveni cannot lie about. Neither can the NRM downplay or think people will forget. It is just really amazing after all these years and plenty of By-Elections. That the NRM and Museveni think people haven’t seen their game before and how it appears. This is their modus operandi and what they does. Kawempe North was no exception, but more of the norm, actually. This is who the NRM is in 2025 and what it has become. Bobi Wine and NUP is just exposing it, and showing it to the world to see.

To the people of Uganda, let what happened in Kawempe North strengthen our resolve to fight for a better country. Let it remind us that despite the small wins along the way, our struggle for freedom and good governance is far from over. We must keep organizing, mobilizing, and resisting.

We must emulate the people of Kawempe North who have showed us what a PROTEST VOTE means and requires us to do. They united, voted, and guarded their vote. If we replicate their example across other parts of the country, we can beat the dictator at his own game! Freedom is in sight!” (Bobi Wine, 17.03.2025).

The victory of Kawempe North By-Election is a nice one for the NUP. Even if it is a seat and a place that has turned into a stronghold of the opposition. There is a long time since a NRM representative was in place from there. Therefore, it must be with a little hesitation to celebrate to fast too.

The NRM wanted to take it and look strong ahead of 2026. The President wanted to have the final straw and build some sort of momentum before the polls. Meanwhile we know he campaigns with the PDM as his vehicle to do so. Just like he did with OWC and Emyooga in the past. Using government programs as an excuse to canvas voters and hold rallies. This game has been played before and people should watch it.

The NUP cannot do the same and neither can any other serious competitor of the NRM. The authorities won’t allow it or accept it. As that doesn’t fit their plan and their majority rule. It cannot see the growth or see a potential of galvanized support of an opposition leader or party. No that has to be stifled and suppressed. That’s why Bobi Wine cannot rest or be in good vibes for too long. There is to much hurt, pain and suffering ahead of 2026. We saw it in the By-Election and there will be plenty more in the General Elections in 2026. That is just bound to happen, whether we like it or not.

The protest vote of Kawempe is beautiful and poetic in defiance of the state. Now the whole Republic has to do the same. If that happens. Then there is nowhere Museveni or his NRM can go. Until then, freedom is far from visible and is far from hope of another tomorrow. Because right now, we are just waking up to another day of the Yellow Brigade singing their songs of glory and praising the sacrifices of Luweero. Peace.

A look into Museveni’s Kawempe North By-Election Statement

In this piece, I am writing to inform you that an electoral and criminal investigation has started in the Kawempe North by-election. The following allegations have come up: ballot papers stuffing, altering results, destroying ballot boxes in Kazo-Angola, Mbogo Mosque zone, etc., because, apparently, some people did not want those votes to be counted, campaigning at the polling stations, intimidation, violence, etc. The heavy deployment of security forces may have stopped mass violence, but it could not stop these micro crimes that should have been managed by the election officials” (Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, 16.03.2025).

The old man with the hat couldn’t let this one slide. I don’t have it in him and he cannot let this one go. We knew there was something up when the National Resistance Movement – Central Executive Committee released their resolutions and demanded an investigation and audit of the Kawempe North By-Election. Now the President, His Excellency is taking it further. This is just bonkers at this point.

The State House and the NRM has to self reflect. They need to re-assess themselves and how they conduct themselves. The way and the manner of how the state operates during the campaigns, the nomination days and the polls itself. They are making their own and showing their true character. The President cannot lie and deceive in 2025. It might have worked in the 1980s and less coverage of civilians, but now we all get the memos, the viral footage and the pictures that speaks loud and clear.

The NRM people must not involve themselves in cheating by saying that the opposition is doing it, they must also do it. Work to crush that disenfranchisement of the Ugandan people. That is why the NRM went to the bush” (Museveni, 16.03.2025).

The delusion, the arrogance and the entitlement of writing this is just another level. If the Young Yoweri had seen the Kawempe North By-Election. He would have returned to the BUSH. Heck, he went to fight in the bush, because of the way he claimed the Uganda Peoples’ Congress (UPC) was running it in 1980. The same sort of state machinery and securing the control of nation. That’s what the NRM does and perfected over the years. His talking like we don’t see how the RDCs, UPF, UPDF, SFC, JATT and everyone else works in coordination to secure a NRM Victory. Like what sort of spell is the President under? Does he think we don’t know the game of pre-ticking ballots and ballot stuffing? Please, step your game up if your going to lie at me. As a seasoned politician. You should be better at it. This isn’t it!

You have been inviting the NRM to attend to you. We shall do exactly that. The mistakes the soldiers may do could be on account of preparing for those non-lethal roles when they are diverted from their work of fighting on account of indiscipline of some actors. These are the criminal mistakes of the opposition. However, there are also organizational mistakes on the NRM side, especially not working collectively and reaching the Wanainchi. Investigations will show us who destroyed the ballot paper boxes at Kazo-Angola, Mbogo centre, etc. and why” (Museveni, 16.03.2025).

The NRM wasn’t invited to Kawempe or the By-Election, no it took over it and used the state machinery to attack the opposition. The media personnel was hurt, civilians was captured, tortured and detained. There was Members of Parliament who was arrested, local activists too and such. There was a massive military presence and that wasn’t to stop mass-uprising or demonstrations. No, it was to incite fear and stifle the tracks of the opposition from assembling and campaigning. So, the mistakes was to think that was a winning strategy. That the levels of fear and intimidation stopped people from voting against the regime. Alas, therein is the problem that the President and the NRM cannot stomach or handle. They can be gun-slinging and use weaponry to muffle citizens, but it cannot understand that it is not the answer. It doesn’t solve the needs of the people and neither is it helping them. That doesn’t build trust, care or concern of their behalf. Instead the NRM doesn’t come as an invited guest to Kawempe. No, the NRM came as an invader and as an aggressor. Has the President ever thought about that? No, neither he or his fellow comrades has never ever consider the implications of such moves. Because they are on the other side of the guns and they are not looking at without being armed.

If the NRM starts investigating it all. The bribes, the pre-ticked ballots and the whole gameplay of state machinery should come into play. There are enough witnesses and proof of soldiers partaking in it. There are enough proof of what went down. Even when the authorities and the state tried to send the media packing. There is enough tapes and such to show what went down. The state can try to rewrite history here, but its clear. They want to send a message, but it is failing. Because all of it is futile.

The NRM was never scheduled to win this one. There was no signs of it. Neither was the stars aligned for miracle either. They could only win if the rigging has succeeded and the will of the people had allowed for it to happen. Alas, that’s what the NRM is missing. The NRM is missing the people. The people aren’t here for them. The people don’t trust the NRM and why should they?

First they come with guns, then they come with porkies and now they want to investigate the ones who came with the guns? They want to investigate themselves and why they couldn’t successfully rig the election? Seriously, is that what the NRM has become?

Is this what the President fought for and went for the BUSH for? Is this why the skulls of Luweero died en-mass? When the President invokes the bush. We are allowed to question it, aye? He wents to use the Mecca, let’s take it to Mecca then. Please, the President should know better, but clearly his vanity and arrogance are more important than the truth or being able to read the room. Peace.

Opinion: Mpuuga cannot catch a break

Museveni deceived our parents, promising to stay in power for only four years, but it’s been 40 years now. It seems they missed the zero on the four” – Mathias Mpuuga MP, (14.03.2025).

Yesterday, at the Democratic Alliance, we unveiled our coordinators who will take the lead in mobilising the country to spread our agenda. Our primary focus is on pushing for constitutional and electoral reforms as well as a national transition. The violence and all manner of intimidation witnessed during the just concluded by-elections in Kawempe North is strong enough to remind us of urgent need for MEANINGFUL reforms the next general elections. Part of the duty of our coordinators is to go and rally the nation to demand these reforms” (Mathias Mpuuga, 15.03.2025).

The former Leader of Opposition and former acknowledge coordinator in Activists for Change, the Members of Parliament for the Democratic Party (DP) and in this term the National Unity Platform (NUP). That man is now on his quest, his on the mission to create his own party and agenda. Now he wants to be the ringleader and the one to aspire to. That’s why he has created his Democratic Alliance, which for many is “coined” as the Dealers Alliance. I don’t blame it… because it lacks credit and trustworthy to be something else.

Mathias Mpuuga is on a lonely mission. Even if his able to get more people behind him and his banner. Not like his a beloved character or has the charisma of a populist. Neither does he have the backbone or the understanding of the sentiment surrounding him.

Mpuuga is cherry-picking all the hot-slogans and favourable policies. Meanwhile, he will have no mandate or even an organization to bring it forward. That’s why everyone was celebrating the NUP and their win in the By-Election yesterday. Very few was noticing or concerned about the launch that Mpuuga had. This is compelling, because if the DA mattered. The stakes would be there and the headlines would write themselves.

Alas, therein is the problem. Mpuuga isn’t that fella. He clearly isn’t as clever or savvy as he wants to be. Neither is he astonishing organizer or the man who can whip up a storm. That has just unravelled and this is why he has such stalwarts, and other random journeymen joining his team.

This one is falling flat and the Elections Road Map isn’t even released. Just like the launch of the DA and the agreement with Alien Skin. It is all a mockery of an attempt. He needs more fanfare and more hope. It is just desperation and the need for relevancy. Neither is helpful and in the long run… it is just tiring and a marathon he cannot handle. He will run and run, but never ever have the ability to finish. Mpuuga will be tired, fatigued and be out of breathe. That’s what is coming his way and he should know it.

This is a path of self-destruction and it is so apparent. A man who couldn’t be transparent and be accountable for his actions. Are running as a reformer and a game-changer, but he couldn’t even play the game that he was a part of already. That’s why he jumped ship and tried yet another gig to re-elected. This is the gist of it all and the ones running with him. They will regret using and spending time with this. It is a foolish enterprise and bound to end in failure.

Mpuuga isn’t the man and we can all see it for what it is. Peace.