ACT Wazalendo: Statement on January 14th 2021 Uganda General Elections (13.01.2021)

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF): EFF Calls for Peaceful, Free and Fair Elections in Uganda (13.01.2021)

Gen. Museveni is wearing fatigue warning the public of cheating in elections [while his army is deployed all across the Republic]

We fought so many wars for the right to vote, nobody should interfere with it. Do not waste our time by trying to cheat, let the people of Uganda elect the way they feel”Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (12.01.2021)

Today is yet another Presidential Address of the President since 1986. Who the international press says is seeking his 6th term, which is faulty by default. As this President suspended elections for a decade and therefore with that move its not officially his eight term. Nevertheless, I would say his moving from 7th term into 8th term. In an violent election and oppressive one. Where opposition activists, candidates and team members are taken away, arrested and even found dead. That is the election of 2021. That is the the state of which this President is delivering these words on today.

I will not dwell deep into his speech, as there are reports of Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) aka the Army in the streets. There is report that they are deployed into ten major cities or towns. That includes Kampala, where the footage of the clips of the newly bought army vans drove passed. Just to prove the Turkish imports to Uganda. Just to show force.

It is really sad this way. That he went into war-mode… as the polls are happening within 48 hours. The Self-Styled President for Life intends to install himself in for a 8th term.

Here some inspiring quotes ahead of the polls:

Some groups have made it a habit to cheat in elections. I want to tell you, that cheating is treason. When you use violence to intimidate to be voted for, you are committing treason. If you plan to cheat or alter results so that you win even when the majority didn’t vote for you, it means you won’t go back to solve the issues of the people because you will cheat in the next election. This renders democracy null and void. I am warning everyone, don’t try to cheat” Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (12.01.2021)

There is no threat we cannot defeat. Do not fear to vote, we shall defend you. There is no part of Uganda we cannot reach, if not foot then by air” (Museveni, 12.01.2021)

When you use violence to intimidate so that you are elected, you will have committed treason because if you win you will not have won with the support of the people” (Museveni, 12.01.2021).

That is why he comes with these ideas now. To again come with the idea that the Opposition will cheat and rig the election. However, that will be nearly impossible as the state runs the show. The President have appointed the Electoral Commission, the Judiciary and the Commanders of the Law Enforcement. It is all prepared for the elections to go in his favour and legitimize his rule.

At this moment, opposition activists and leaders are picked up the government. They are arresting and taking away over 100s of them across the Republic. The state is working on overtime… and doing what it can to block and silence the opposition ahead of the polls.

Just to push his ideals, he comes with this excuse as well: “I am sorry for the inconvenience to those who have been using this channel (Facebook), but we cannot tolerate this arrogance of anybody coming to decide for us who is good and who is bad” (Museveni, 12.01.2021).

The other day Facebook decided to block the NRM message senders. Why would anybody do that? When I heard about that I told our people to warn them. That social channel, if it’s going to operate in Uganda, it should be used equitably by everybody” (Museveni, 12.01.2021).

Well, you are deciding what is good and bad in your domain. So, let Facebook decide who they see as good or bad in their domain. If you have trouble with Facebook. Don’t block the whole platform, but write them a letter like Uganda Communication Commission did the other day. That should be the way to protests. As this is just done stop information flow.

This just proves how he will control everything and ensure he gets his results. Where he pushed the narrative that the opposition did it, but in reality he did. That’s why there is no reason to think otherwise. This man will rig this and has planned this all along. He has to spike the levels of fear and intimidate. Just to prove what sort of big-man he is.

He now acts like a General. Just to prove something. Because, he cannot show his record, achievements or policy changes. As his self interests are more vital than the Republic itself. That’s why his warning the public and doing it like this. Just the late night ahead of the polls.

Don’t expect for the best. Expect for the worst. Nothing in this election have been fair. Nothing in this election have been justified. A lot of suffering, pain and injustice. Sadly it is more to come. We just don’t know what’s the next trick he would do. However, it will be blunt actions and the opposition will suffer. Peace.

Human Rights Network for Journalists – Uganda: IGP Pronouncements for beat journalists (12.01.2021)

Bobi Wine have rattled Musveni’s cage

Now two days ahead of the polls. It is so clear as day that President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni have been running wild, because of how Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine have operated. Bobi Wine is another sort of politician, which Museveni really haven’t met in his life-time.

That is why the President is acting ghetto, hiring the Presidential Advisors from the Ghetto and fearing the voices of the youth that. This is why the state have been acting with force towards the People Power Movement and the National Unity Platform (NUP). The ones wearing red have been harassed, abducted and detained by the state. This has happen to the campaign team of Bobi Wine and his associates. Even candidates are taken from their homes and not seen again. Sadly some of them are seeing their demise and suddenly appearing dead. That is the sort of state this election is.

There is nothing the state will do to be supreme. They will go after Bobi Wine and his party by any means. The state went first after the colour. Then they went after the red beret. After that they raided the headquarters in Kamwokya, Kampala. Later they made up a case against the inception and change of NUP. Since then they have used all means to block the campaigns, the districts and even hotels… they have targeted Bobi Wine since his spreading a message that incite fear inside the head of Museveni. Bobi Wine and his comrades are talking of revolution and peaceful transfer of power from Museveni. That is clearly not the message or the vision Museveni himself believes in. Therefore, his machinery and state is oppressing this and doing what he can to silence this.

Bobi Wine have proven and showed how depressing and lack of fair campaigning is at this very moment. His been blocked from districts, arrested and been abducted from areas. The man has been taken to nowhere and not able to seek refugee for the night and rest. While the President have travelled across the Republic opening all sort of ceremonies and sleeping at state lodges. Therefore, there is a miss match between who has power and how is challenging it.

The injustice and impunity have been so staggering. It has been at such levels that its pointless to think the polls with be delivered fair and the counting will acknowledge the will of the people. There is no reason to trust the state and their willingness to lose power. They are willing to bury the children and grandchildren to ensure they have an office after 14th January 2021.

This is why the state is slowing down the internet, blocking social media and only the ones who has VPN is able to get through. Even there… the state who takes OTT Tax and have people paying extra taxes to have access to it. Is blocking it and stopping the opportunity to access information and also spread it. This is because the state wants a blackout and total silence. So, that the state can control the message through their channels.

Bobi Wine knew this would come and that was to be anticipated. The state have used these means in the last election and this a repetition. However, this time around they been more vicious and brutal. They have had more rampant campaign violence and been more fatalities ahead of the polls. The state has also used abductions and harassment at another level.

Therefore, the thought of peaceful days ahead is a pipe-dream. The next few days will most likely turn into a nightmare. Soldiers will be on the streets. There will be curfews and even expect jet-fighters to show force after the polls. Expect house-arrests and suddenly moving opposition leaders to prisons up-country like Moroto or the like. Because, that will be done to stem the possible riots and demonstrations against the announced results. While the President will rush the inauguration and possible only do it with a few heads of state. Just to look seemingly “legit”. As the public is tired of the old man already… and he was preparing to rig this all along. Peace.

Opinion: Honest elections doesn’t happen in darkness

Another day, another story and another issue. The 14th January 2021 the polls are happening. The finalization of a long time coming. However, don’t expect free and fair elections. Don’t expect the public or the citizens to have their will heard. No, the state intends to control the result and get their pre-determined announced results. The state doesn’t hold elections to get the representatives the public wants, but to get legitimacy to rule.

The Electoral Commission, the Police Force, the Army, Local Defence Unit (LDUs), Crime Preventers and all other law enforcement will be out to spread fear and intimidate. These elections will be a nightmare. There is nothing happening before the polls that says otherwise.

The authorities and the state has been more rouge and rough. It hasn’t been a week without an arrest of a Presidential Candidate. There haven’t been week or a day without reports of abductions and arrests of opposition candidates. It have been reports of activists and people associated with the opposition abducted in the night and later found dead. Therefore, the state has retaliated before the polls even starts. Just to spark fear and show their strength by using law enforcement.

The police and army have followed the trails of the Presidential candidates. Blocked them from accessing districts and towns. They have been arrested there, tear-gassed and violated by the authorities. The state have blocked hotels, taken them away into nowhere. In this demeaning manner the state have gone after them. The opposition have detained their team-members and given phony charges as well. This has happened all through the campaigns. The Police have shot at the cars and been close to assassinating a Presidential Candidate twice.

Therefore, with the knowledge of this. The news of blocking Google App Store and Apps ahead of the election. Is just so the opposition cannot monitor and report in the UVote App. We should anticipate a media lockdown ahead of the polls. Where the only way to get information and sharing it through VPN.

The state have already issued new media accreditation ahead of the polls. So, plenty have lost it and the Media Council had to verify journalists. Foreign journalists have been blocked from entering and being allowed to monitor the elections. There been some observers, but they are the usual suspects and these will rubber-stamp the events.

The state have already gone after the opposition media and the ones who has Youtube Accounts. That hasn’t gone well. While Facebook have blocked the regimes own accounts on Facebook. So, the state has lost a battle and forced another one.

However, the Electoral Commission, the UPDF and UPF have all gone out and said that all gathering around the polling station after voting is illegal. The authorities have said its not allowed to use phones and take evidence of what is happening. People are just supposed to shun area and its all supposed to happen in secret. The state is trying to issue in the articles of the 2019 Amendments of Kahinda Otafiire. Which never happened and was unsuccessful in Parliament. Still, they are trying and persisting in saying so. Just to ensure its dark there too.

Expect for the worst here. Expect for soldiers in the streets. Be sure of para-military outfits sponsored by the state lingering around. There will be curfews, it will be a partial lockdown. There will be a social media and internet blockade. Mobile Money and other services will be impossible. No place to hide on the internet and nowhere to seek information. Only from government friendly radio and TV.

The state want this to be done in darkness and intimidation. They don’t want to shed light on the events. The Electoral Commission this time around cannot even act independent. They are looking like servants of the throne and that is all a given. Law Enforcement and the army is partisan players too. So, nothing on the horizon is a sign that these folks will give way easily. No matter what the youth, the next generation or what the public really wants.

The President and his men can act like they are elected. When really they are men who only has power, because they have the guns. These folks doesn’t lead because they are respected or people favour them. No, they are there… because if you challenge them. Then you die and so does your kin. The ones that dares to challenge at this point will suffer. So many people have been hurt this election. There been to many civilians, to many candidates and activists who has suffered, tortured and died because of the upcoming polls. All so one man can have his eight term in office.

That is insane, but that man isn’t playing fair. He don’t intend to either. The President and his party intends ambush, strike fear and be hostile to be in power. These Big-Men will use all means. They don’t care if they burn a village, evict a orphanage or pollute a school. The state will use all means to profit and get kickbacks. They will do whatever it takes and there is nothing that is to far.

This President and his men will kill people in broad daylight and blame the deceased. The state will blame the victims. Claim they are investigating and never arresting anyone. That is the sad reality here. People can die and it doesn’t even count. People can be arrested and detained for no apparent reason than their political affiliation. People can be beaten and shook(ed) on the streets with no justification.

That is why the state, authorities and every stakeholder out there wants it in the dark. They don’t want the light on the events. The current leadership prefers it to be happening in darkness, as the actions might get hidden and isn’t leaked out before later. The President and his men prefers that. Just like nobody is supposed to understand the weird calculations and the perfect match of voters in certain districts. Neither, the various of anomalies and the wrecked lives. As those will be talked about after the effect. That is just natural in the grand scheme of things.

The President is anticipated to “win” again. However, it is hallow. The game and the tricks has been played before. The President and his men is only amplifying it and making it more hardcore. The gloves are off, but the truth is still this. His time is up and the public is tired of his reign. However, he thinks he can keep them hostage yet another term. Peace.

National Youth Council: Press Release on the participation and contribution to peaceful elections (11.01.2021)

Opinion: Museveni is a “aguu”

Now that the polls are hastily happening, the President since 1986 suddenly wanted again to show his importance and care of the ghetto. The President have done this stunt before, as he been doing some stunts in 2019. As the President and his handlers was launching government schemes in Kibuye and Katwe, Kampala.

So, the video of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni speaking luyaye suddenly. It was not like he was in the ghetto with the ones playing Omweso in the streets of Kalerwe. Not like he was sipping some Nile Brew at a shack or run-down pub somewhere in a ghetto. No, the old man was sitting safe and soundly at the Entebbe State House. Acting like his street-smart and cares about the ghetto.

The ghetto’s of Kampala is an reflection of the failure of his administration. It is a reflection of where the wasteland of forgotten people and people seeking a new beginning in the capital. Instead of expanding on those and ensure the ones living lives there. The state is just visiting this areas, coming with minor programs and leaving them behind. The President and his cadres haven’t cared much. It is the CSOs, NGOS and UN Organizations that cover the discrepancies that the state leaves behind.

Therefore him speaking Luyaye now as a way of respecting the ghetto’s is beyond me. Speaking the supposed “anti-language” That an old man like Museveni trying to speak slang to act relevant only shows that his trying to hard. Instead of showing what he has delivered to the youth and the ghetto’s. His instead playing a character, which isn’t him.

That’s why Museveni isn’t only an outsider here, but his a “aguu” meaning either ‘thief’ or ‘prostitute’. His trying to act like a hustler on the street, but this is the richest man of the Republic. The ruler that has been living longer then the most of the people speaking Luyaye and the slang itself. Therefore, this is as disrespectful as when older lectures trying to act and speak up like the students. It sounds out of place and isn’t a bargain.

I doubt his story of working with the ghetto before the bush-war is true. As that is just a way of sounding legit now. Alas, a man who was working for the Uganda Research Bureau, was a spy and agent for the state. These people was using mental games and to interrogate people. That is not working there. Before he got a higher role in the Military Commission in 1979 and later became the Minister of Defence. Therefore, him working directly for the ghetto and the betterment before the Bush sounds like a lie too me.

Not only does he uses Luyaye to be relevant. His also using the language to speak the ones he left behind over the years. The publicity stunts and gig-economy positioning is the reason why the struggle is real. The state haven’t dropped consistent development or fixing the needs in the ghetto’s. If they had it wouldn’t be as dire as it is.

This is all done as a challenge and prove he can more Ghetto than Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine. However, Bobi Wine has resided and lived in the Ghetto. Bobi Wine has grown up there and made a career from there. Something, the President never did. That is why Museveni is putting on an act.

For me, Museveni is an “aguu” and an imposter. He shows his arrogance and ignorance with this. This isn’t brilliant, but only shows his disregard of the people he tries to galvanise ahead of the polls. Peace.

Opinion: The PM could Campaign in Kampala? [Wasn’t that suspended just a week ago?]

PM Ruhakana Rugunda and first NRM National V/Chairman Moses Kigongo arrive at Kololo to meet a group of youth claiming to be NUP supporters. The organizers of the meeting claim it is about ensuring a peaceful election” (NTV Uganda, 10.01.2021).

It is just a mere week ago when the Electoral Commission suspended all campaign rallies and election activities in Kampala. That was done for all parties and all candidates to stop the spread. However, what happened in Kololo today clearly violated that.

As this was the report earlier in the month:

EC to consult scientists over 14 districts campaign ban The EC suspended campaigns in Kampala, Mukono, Buikwe, Wakiso, Mbarara, Kabarole, Luwero, Kasese, Masaka, Jinja, Kalungu, Kazo and Tororo” (New Vision, 06.01.2021).

That Prime Minister Rugunda and NRM Vice Chariman Kigongo could hold this sort of meeting/rally is a clear violation of the guidelines and the suspended elections. This shows a double standard. As we know the arrests, the brutality and tear-gas, which would have followed the opposition candidates doing the same.

If Bobi Wine or Patrick Amuriat Oboi even considered this. They would be in shackles and chains. The cars would be towed and they would be detained. These folks would be targeted and the venue blocked. There would be met with force and there would be no mercy from the authorities. That is what the grand public knows and everyone who has followed this election.

However, even when the EC have banned campaigns in Kampala. The Prime Minister and NRM National Vice Chairman Kigongo held a campaign meeting in Kololo. That is an deliberate act. As it showed a supposed group of youth crossing over from National Unity Platform to the NRM. That is an act of campaign. To show force and strength.

Nevertheless, it shows there is a vast difference between the ruling regime and the opposition. The ruling regime can disregard all practices and laws. They can convene and hold meetings. Even when the state says its suspended. That all in proof of hubris and strength. However, it just shows how hallow the chambers of power is. As they have to breach laws and guidelines, which would be used with law enforcement against their adversaries. These folks wouldn’t even been able to gather anyone without some sort of havoc.

Alas, the Prime Minister shows his entitlement. That there are people who are above the laws and rules of the game. There are no level playing field. No fair campaigning and fair elections. Neither are they free, as there are only hurdles on the way for the opposition. Nothing is given, things are only taken away.

The PM and Kigongo have shown their cards today. They believe it righteous. This was a campaign meeting, a campaign rally. All for the scope of showing greatness. As it was a “victory” to get people crossing over to the NRM. That is a political ploy. However, we have not seen anyone giving away their member-cards. So, we can imagine that these folks might not even be NUP Members before becoming NRM members today. Don’t be shocked if that is true. Peace.