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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 faƧade 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 peopleāmassacres, 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 needsāhospitals with doctors and equipment, schools that actually educate, and protection from armed herdsmen trampling their landsāMuseveni’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 displaysāthey deserve justice, dignity, and the chance to rebuild their lives.
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Our Country under Siege through Senseless elections
As a Ugandan, I refuse to pretend that January 15 is an election in any meaningful sense. It is a ritual without choice, a performance staged to legitimize a man who has ruled our country for over four decades and reduced the state to a personal estate.
This exercise is not about the will of the people; it is about reminding Ugandans who holds the gun, who controls the courts, and who makes or breakes even when hope is fading swiftly.
An election is meant to be a moment of accountability, yet in Uganda, it has become a moment of intimidation, torture despot Museveni, clinging to power after over forty years, has systematically crippled every institution meant to serve the publicāParliament reduced to a rubber stamp, the judiciary bent, the electoral commission captured, the security forces weaponized against citizens. The regime speaks endlessly about āprotecting the gains of 1986.ā In reality, it is protecting nothing but its grip on power.
We have seen this movie before. In past elections, the outcome was decided long before a single ballot was cast. Security forces were unleashed on civilians. Scores were killed. Communities were terrorized. The most popular opposition figure, ,Bobi Wine, was hunted, brutalized, arrested, and tortured for daring to campaign. Observers could not even do their jobs because the environment was so poisoned by violence and fear.
Over 40 years, nothing has changedāexcept the criminal regimeās desperation. Opposition supporters are abducted in the dead of night.
Torture is normalized. Civil society leaders who document abuses are arrested, abducted or they disappear forcefully. Rallies are crushed with tear gas, Police dogs, batons, and boots.
Journalists are beaten for doing their work. Kizza Besigye, who carried the opposition banner before Bobi Wine, has spent more than a year in illegal detention on absurd forged treason charges. The state has even criminalized coverage of protests, raising the national flag disguising repression with legal jargon about āunlawful processions.ā
Power-hungry Museveni now rules on fumesāphysically frail, politically and morally bankrupt, yet still forcing himself on a nation that has clearly moved on. Instead of preparing our country, Uganda šŗš¬ for a peaceful transition, he is determined to die in office, dragging the country down with him if necessary.
This is not leadership; it is hostage-taking.
Coming on the heels of Tanzaniaās farcical election, where real opponents were barred and protests were met with bullets, Ugandaās sham vote fits a disturbing regional patternāfrom Guinea to Cameroonāwhere elections are emptied of meaning and turned into spectacles of state power. These are not democratic exercises; they are warnings. They are meant to tell citizens: know your place.
But contempt for the people is not stability. It is a slow-burning fuse. By silencing voices and crushing dissent, this regime is manufacturing the very anger and resentment it fears. You cannot brutalize a population forever and call it peace. You cannot steal choice indefinitely and expect obedience.
This election will not deliver legitimacy. It will only deepen the crisis. And when the frustration finally boils over, history will remember who chose repression over reformāand who stood on the side of the Ugandan people.
