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Senile Museveni forget Acholi is part of Uganda
Senile Museveni forget Acholi is part of Uganda
The Acholi sub-region is drowning in poverty and despair, yet the aging despot Museveni seems oblivious to the suffering of these Ugandan citizens. With 60% of the population in Acholi living in absolute poverty and education levels disastrously low, the glossy faรงade of Gulu City is nothing but a cruel illusion. Venture beyond its borders to places like Koch Lii village, and the harsh reality of Museveni’s neglect becomes painfully clear.
Since 1986, when Museveni clawed his way to power through violence in an election he didn’t win, Acholi has been ravaged by war and abandoned by those in power. Under his watch, both the LRA and his NRA/UPDF forces unleashed unspeakable horrors on the peopleโmassacres, rapes, mass displacements, and the plundering of livestock. Decades later, Museveni’s regime has done nothing to compensate those who endured these atrocities. Instead, it continues to sow distrust by allegedly eliminating prominent Acholi leaders like General Lokech, Colonel Ochola, and the late Rt. Hon. Jacob Oulanyah.
Moreover, while the region cries out for basic needsโhospitals with doctors and equipment, schools that actually educate, and protection from armed herdsmen trampling their landsโMuseveni’s regime has the audacity to spend UGX 5 billion on parliamentary extravagance in Gulu. This grotesque display of corruption only underscores how out of touch the regime is with the real, dire needs of the people.
Forests are being destroyed for charcoal, young girls are being forced into marriages by poverty-stricken families, and armed Balalo herdsmen, seemingly supported by the regime, are displacing communities and grazing cattle on land that belongs to the struggling wanainchi. The challenges facing Acholi are immense, yet Museveni’s government continues to treat them as an afterthought.
It’s high time the regime acknowledges the plight of the Acholi and takes real action to address the decades of neglect and abuse. Northern Uganda has suffered long enough under the weight of Museveni’s indifference and corruption. The people of Acholi deserve more than empty promises and flashy displaysโthey deserve justice, dignity, and the chance to rebuild their lives.
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The once Uganda’s HIV legacy has died under an Octogenarian Tibuhaburwa
Uganda was once the world’s proof that HIV could be beaten. Bold leadership and evidence-based action cut prevalence from 18 percent in the 1980s to under 5 percent today.
That victory is now slipping away, and the cause is not a stronger virus. It is a government that has lost the will to confront what drives the epidemic. When a government is led by a senile 109 old Museveni battling prostate cancer, it collapses
What is so painfully awkward now is that this octogenarian Museveni surrounds himself with so-called senior presidential advisors, technical experts and specialized aides, supposedly instated to guide policy on health, development and security.
On paper it looks like a presidency equipped for complex challenges, yet in practice it is a facade staffed by loyalists, not truth-tellers, and cut off from the streets of Kampala, Fort Portal, Kyotera and in his own bedroom.
There, young women with no jobs, no capital and no picture of how the the future looks like, the only alternative is to turn to commercial sex simply to eat.
That is not a moral failing. It is a policy failure of the highest order, and the dictator’s advisors have answered it with silence and biomedical band-aids while the economic crisis feeds transmission.
Numbers donโt lie; in 2024, Uganda recorded 37,000 new HIV infections, roughly four every hour.
About 21,000 of them were young women, a brutal measure of how poverty and gender inequality push girls into danger.
In Kampala alone, 211 people contract HIV every week, more than 11,000 a year.
Fort Portal, Kyotera and Kalangala have prevalence rates of 14, 13 and 12 percent, about triple the national average, yet they receive no targeted economic intervention.
These figures have since multiplied by 6 folds and are the direct result of a regime that treats HIV as a purely medical problem and ignores its economic engine.
Millions in state and donor funding flow into HIV programs, but too much of it treats symptoms while the causes go untouched.
When a young woman in Kyotera cannot afford food without selling sex, no amount of Prep education will protect her. The result is a generation trapped in poverty, infection and stigma, while the presidency stages photo opportunities celebrating progress that exists only on paper.
There is a reason no one in the palace says this out loud. Admitting that Despot Museveni is HIV positive and has since issued an order that he wonโt die alone he has to go to his grave with millions of Ugandans.
As a result he creates poverty and youth unemployment to drive the epidemic. The despot’s advisors would rather protect the regime and a sick museveni than the public.
