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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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๐๐ก๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐ฏ๐๐ง๐ข ๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐ซ. ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐๐ซ
When Dr. Martin Aliker published his autobiography title โThe Bell is Ringingโ in 2018, despot Museveni was so bitter that the book revealed how much of a dictator he is.
The foreign octogenarian, Museveni authomotically embarked on poisoning him and that is how he was served slow killing poison that claimed Dr. Martin Aliker on April 15, 2024
Here is what is in the book that angered Museveni
The Bell is Ringing revealed how ministers and senior officials groveled before Museveni. Aliker was minister of state for Foreign Affairs in 1996, and later minister of Parliamentary Affairs and presidential advisor.
โ[But] I did not enjoy cabinet,โ Aliker wrote. โWhen the president chaired the meeting, ministers behaved like primary school children wanting the class teacher to notice them.โ
โI always sat next to John Nasasira, minister for Works, who sat next to a very superstitious senior minister. This man always carried a good-luck charm in his pocket. While the president was chairing the meeting, this man would have his hand in his pocket praying to his ancestors to let him keep his job as a minister although he was already old,โ he wrote.
Aliker talked of how Museveni once referred to a female state minister who had raised her hand to speak as the โlady with a beautiful smile.โ
Aliker said โthis angered the full minister, who was also a lady, who told her never to smile to the president again!โ
Aliker delved into Ugandaโs chaotic political past, recalling how Museveni and himself visited President Binaisa in 1980 at State House Entebbe.
โMuseveni was looking at the bullet holes in the ceiling. He was not interested at all and made no effort to hide his contempt for the presidentโฆโ
Aliker revealed the drama that surrounded the privatisation of Apollo hotel (Sheraton Kampala hotel) which was his biggest disappointment.
He wrote about how a local group had made an offer in 1998 which was accepted. Then Ethiopian firm, Midroc, offered more and threatened to sue government. The officials who handled the sale demanded $5 million from Midroc as โkey moneyโ but it paid $3m. The local group had also paid $2m in bribe.
Midroc officials came to Kampala and told the president what had happened.
โWhen they [investors] met government people to negotiate, one government official took out his pistol and laid it on the table and said โnow letโs talkโ,โ Aliker wrote.
When the president was told about the incident, he got upset, but he kept his composure, Aliker wrote. These errant individuals were not dismissed.
Aliker was also a go-between for government and LRA rebels. One day he received a letter purportedly written by rebel leader Joseph Kony asking for medicines for gonorrhoea, cholera, and diarrhoea. He forwarded the letter to Museveni who ordered then army commander, Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu, to put together the drugs for LRA. Aliker drove them there.
โWhen they took delivery of the medicines, they prayed for long life for President Museveniโฆ,โ he wrote.
Aliker was very close to Sir Edward Mutesa, Kabaka of Buganda and the first post-independence ceremonial leader of Uganda. He wrote that he was Mutesaโs dentist immediately after independence and how they were family friends.
โI liked him personally but thought that he was, despite his charm, a fundamentally weak man who was in the grip of elderly, conservative and narrow-minded advisers at Mengo,โ Aliker wrote.
Aliker served on boards of many companies, including Coca-Cola, Uganda Breweries, Stanbic bank, and Standard Chartered bank, among others.
โWhat was my value to companies like Allied Breweries and Coca-Cola or Heritage? It was undoubtedly my ability to get access to governments at the highest level.โ
Take the case of Coca-Cola, which wanted a reduction in excise duties on its imported inputs. Their CEO in Uganda โ a white South African โ would have had no chance of seeing Museveni.
โBut when Carl Ware flew in, I could arrange a meeting with him,โ Aliker wrote.
The book says little about his interaction with his home community in Acholi. He admitted he did not live there since he left for school in the USA in the 1950s.
RIP ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐๐ซ alongside all the comrades killed by the power-greedy foreign criminal despot, Museveni.
