𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐈 𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐎𝐁𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐁𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐃

For 40 years we have endured lies, empty promises and treachery being told that the foreign octogenarian senile despot Tibuhaburwa Kagutema a.k.a Museveni came to liberate us and restore our dignity – how false!

The truth is bitter and uglier. Amin had Namanve and his panda gari. Obote had his forests where bodies were dumped, unfortunately, Museveni has perfected his art and multiplied the cruelty. He built an entire archipelago of torture.

I won’t hurriedly welcome Mabonga with open hands, but his confessions add sense to what we have been crying about since 1990s.

Our people are abducted, murdered, tortured, whisked away with no trace.

Besigye, Lutale, Mugumya, the Muslim sheikhs, priests, the hundreds of thousands of foot soldiers whose names never make it to TV.

These are not rumors. This is the NRM’s real infrastructure plan.

𝟏. 𝐍𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚, 𝐉𝐢𝐧𝐣𝐚. The house of pain. Our people went in with normal limbs and teeth but came out bed ridden with dentist appointments. Unfortunately, the foreign despot Museveni called it “routine investigation.”

𝟐. 𝐈𝐒𝐎 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬.

Every Kampala suburb has them. No signpost, no register, no charge sheet, just screaming behind a wall and a neighbor who has learned to turn up the radio. Safe for whom?

𝟑. 𝐋𝐰𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐮𝐛𝐚 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐋𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚. Dictator Museveni discovered that if you want a prison no one can hear, you take it to a lake. A boat ride, a few minutes of silence, and the mainland remains blissfully deaf. He built the Ugandan Alcatraz.

𝟒. 𝐊𝐲𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐚 / 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐎𝐧𝐞, 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐚 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝. Former detainees described the incommunicado lifeless rooms and the chains on the cold floors flooded with dirty water. Senile Museveni established the torture chamber emulating those of the Nazis.

𝟓. 𝐊𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐤𝐚. The original Museveni’s slaughterhouse, home of Kitatta and his methods. Journalists, social media influencers, opposition supporters and terror suspects all combined. M7 considers all of them in the same box.

𝟔. 𝐒𝐅𝐂 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐬. An elite force with a Museveni’s business at the top, accused by activists and former detainees of abductions and holding civilians outside any court. Elite, indeed.

𝟕. 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐲𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 It has held civilians under direct orders of the foreign depot Museveni and have became the waiting room: wait here, bruise slowly, then be presented to a magistrate as proof of the rule of law.

𝟖. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐢. The modern panda gari. White unmarked vans, no number plates, gentlemen with guns. You are driving home, and by the evening your family is touring mortuaries. If there is a more honest national symbol, we haven’t found it.

𝟗. 𝐅𝐥𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐝. The kill squad accused of feeding Nalufenya. When they shoot someone, they call it “put out of action,” a phrase so gentle it could be a hospital discharge note.

𝟏𝟎. 𝐌𝐛𝐮𝐲𝐚, 𝐂𝐌𝐈 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬. Military intelligence cells widely known as “Kandiho’s” where civilians have been dumbbell, tortured and held for long stretches with no trial.

𝟏𝟏. 𝐒𝐅𝐂 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐛𝐛𝐞 / 𝐊𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐥𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. Hidden compounds where high-value political prisoners are alleged to have been kept incommunicado, a short drive from Kampala Central Police, which was never told. Convenient, no?

𝟏𝟐. 𝐊𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐚 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢-𝐌𝐚𝐱 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬. A prison built inside a prison so the law cannot find it. Court orders arrive. Court orders are ignored. Prisoners rot.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭

Amin killed openly. Obote killed openly. You always knew whose boot it was.

Museveni killed quietly, systematically, and then holds a press conference to deny it. He took the dungeon, put it in a bungalow, painted it white, and gave it a government budget line. He didn’t abolish Namanve. He distributed it.

Amin had one Namanve. Museveni has twelve, and a van.

That is why he is worse. We have buried too many. We have walked too many hospital corridors and prison gates. We have searched too many mortuaries for people who vanished into a white van. We shall rise, and when we do, it will never be business as usual.

Enough is Enough with Musevenism!