BOBI WINE

The irony! Dictator Museveni castigates Idi Amin for taking over power unconstitutionally. Of course the hypocrite in him hasn't forgotten that he himself seized power unconstitutionally after leading a war that killed close to a million of our people! Since then, he has organised sham elections at every turn to illegally keep himself in power. His regime is as illegal, as illegitimate and as unconstitutional! Of all people he should be the last to condemn violent, illegal power grabs! What more? What atrocities or crimes did Idi Amin commit that Museveni hasn't committed with even more callousness and impunity? 1. Mass killings? The 1989 Mukura massacre where 69 people were killed after NRA soldiers crammed them into a train wagon and deliberately suffocated them. The 2016 massacre in Kasese where over 150 citizens including women and children were murdered in cold blood. The November 2020 massacre on the streets of Kampala and other parts of Uganda where over 100 unarmed citizens were shot dead. The atrocities committed in Northern Uganda. The 2009 killings over Kayunga protests. The continuing killings of our people in Karamoja. Just to mention a few. In his letter, Museveni mentions some prominent people killed under the Amin regime. Although for Amin there have been some contestations with some people even claiming that our present rulers were behind some of the killings in order to soil the image of the regimes of the day, there has been no pretence under the Museveni regime. Muslim clerics (most recently Sheikh Kirevu) have been shot dead in broad daylight by his criminal regime! He admitted that his regime killed Zebra Mando but not even one individual has been held to account. And of course many other politically motivated and yet unresolved murders- including the brutal murder of Andrew Lutakome Kayiira. 2. Enforced disappearances? Museveni repeatedly castigated Amin and other past regimes for panda-gari and kidnaps. But what has he done? Replaced those trucks with mini-van drones which his operatives use to abduct citizens on a daily basis, keep them in filthy dungeons, subject them to untold torture and in some cases rape them! The families of Johnbosco Kibalama, Damulira John, Kanatta Muhammad, Mbabazi Moses Kawenja, Nalumonso Vincent, Sempijja Yuda, etc etc are still demanding for their people who were picked up in drones three or four years ago. Where does he get the audacity to condemn Amin for the very things he does with so much delight? How many Ugandans are rotting in military and civil prisons, subjected to sham military trials for simply opposing his regime of blood? 3. Destruction of state institutions? Which institution hasn't Museveni deliberately destroyed? He has prided himself in appointing cadre judges to the judiciary and raided courts whenever they don't tow the line. He has reduced Parliament into his walking stick- and at every turn ignored its resolutions whenever they're against his wish and command. He has raided Parliament, not once, with guns in order to ensure that he keeps in power at all costs. The capture has happened to every other institution - universities, the military, police, Bank of Uganda, Civil Aviation Authority, the Uganda Human Rights Commission, URA, UCC, etc etc. 4. Destroying the Ugandan economy? What is a national economy where natural resources and the most lucrative economic interests are ring-fenced for Museveni's family and his few cronies? Where a small clique of those connected to power swim in luxury while the majority of the population live like paupers in their own country? Where public assets were, in the name of privatisation, taken over by the powerful, their resources plundered and many of them ran down? Where ordinary citizens who are trying hard to survive are overtaxed, while Museveni's cronies and their foreign interests are given tax holidays and waivers? Where many previously successful indigenous businesses have collapsed ... 1/2