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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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There are many ways for a country to descend into madness. Some countries collapse under economic mismanagement, others under corruption, and some under the weight of a dictatorship that has mistaken the presidency for a personal inheritance.
Then there are countries where the national security apparatus appears to have been recruited into resolving a marital disagreement. Unfortunately, we happen to have all those situations here in our country, Uganda ๐บ๐ฌ
A case in a point is General Elweru, a seasoned General Officer who has spent years commanding soldiers, barking orders and enjoying the privileges of military power. A fierce general accustomed to having people salute him, obey him and fear him.
Yet, somewhere along the way, he apparently discovered a dangerous battlefield that no military academy had prepared him for: the Presidentโs bedroom.
You heard me correctly; Elweru developed an intimate relationship with the Presidentโs wife – Janet Kataaha Kembabazi z’abashija.
Unfortunately for him, despot Museveni is not the forgiving, emotionally mature type. He is the sort of despotic ruler who rides on corruption, human rights abuses, political humiliation and national embarrassment, yet he gets the guts to draw the line at another man who once enjoyed the company of his epileptic wife before she succumbed to illness.
The discovery that Elweru was sleeping with Janet Kataaha sent the presidential household into a spectacular crisis.
Brutal dictator Museveni, consumed by rage, turned his anger on his wife, beating her brutally to pulps. The same man who commands an entire security establishment could not command his own emotions or command his old limping wife to keep her legs closed.
And just like that, a private marital scandal became a matter of national security and announcements were made that Kataaha was sick and hospitalized yet in fact she was nursing wounds of Museveniโs beating.
The hunt for General Elweru began.
Suddenly, military intelligence had a new assignment. Security operatives had a new priority. The state machinery was reportedly mobilised, not to protect citizens, investigate corruption or confront the countryโs problems, but to track down Elweru whose greatest crime was getting romantically involved with Kataaha and, sex was consensual!
One can only imagine the emergency briefing.
โNational security is under threat!โ
โFrom whom? From Elweruโ
A country can apparently have all manner of unresolved national problems, but nothing receives the urgency of a wounded dictatorโs ego.
Now that General Elweru has been caught, the speculation is that the final chapter may be written in blood.
The question is no longer simply whether Elweru had an affair with the Janet Kataaha, the more serious question is whether senile Museveni will use the machinery of the state to settle personal scores, punish perceived romantic rivals like he is doing to Col (rtd) Dr Kiiza Besigye and potentially eliminate people who have fallen out of his favour.
That is the danger of personal rule.
When a President believes that our country, Uganda ๐บ๐ฌ belongs to him personally, the army becomes his private security company, intelligence agencies become his personal investigators, and the law becomes an inconvenience to be bypassed whenever his feelings are hurt.
There is something profoundly tragic about a country where a powerful manโs domestic affairs can reportedly trigger a national security operation.
Indeed, Elweru should answer to the law, not to a jealous inept senile foreign criminal Museveni. Janet Kataaha should never have become the victim of domestic violence because of her infidelity. And nobody should face extrajudicial execution because a ruler feels personally humiliated.
If Elweru committed adultery, that is a matter between consenting adults and, perhaps, their respective families. It is not a capital offence.
If Museveni committed domestic violence, that is a matter for the law, not something to be excused by the privileges of office.
And if the state is being used to hunt down a personal rival, then the country has a much bigger problem than an affair.
Perhaps the most extraordinary lesson from this entire drama is that a man can command an army, control a government and intimidate an entire nation, yet still be defeated by the possibility that another man has won his wifeโs affection.
A word of advice: when the Commander-in-Chief starts treating the national security budget like a marriage counselling fund, it may be time to ask who is really running the country.
Because a nation is not supposed to be governed by a manโs wounded pride.
