MR MUSEVENI, LET DEAL WITH AMAMA ‘BOYS’ IN THE OTHER WAYS

(sent to Daily Monitor as an opinion)

After the historical Kyankwazi resolution that donated to president Museveni another term in office, he (Museveni) thought that he had caged Mbabazi. It was a long and tiresome journey for Amama to sign the resolution. From number 1 to 202, maybe yes, he never wanted to endorse his boss.

While Museveni camp was dinning for ‘finishing’ Mbabazi,a section of senior officials of the NRM youth league led by Shakur Walusimbi and the NRM Youth League chairperson Northern Uganda Omodo Omodo r e-opened the matter  endorsing  Amama Mbabazi as NRM flag bearer  for 2016 presidential elections.

Bravely, they termed Kyankwanzi declaration as a violation of the NRM constitution which stipulates how a candidate is chosen. As if that was not enough, they called upon all NRM youth and cadres to reject and condemn the Kyankwanzi resolution as illegal.

Museveni’s dinning camp had to slice their euphoria and swing into action once again. As result police arrested youth NRM youth league member thought to be stirring and trading Amama Mbabazi, a class room general as threat to the bush war hero publically. To mention few, those arrested included Adam Luzindana (Kampala), William Seruyinda (Buganda) and Omodo Omodo (Northern). They were accused of mobilising youth to turn against the ‘powerful’ Museveni.

We need to understand that there was a reason why these youth were trading Mbabazi as still a potential threat to Museveni. Surely, if Mbabazi signed Kyankwazi honestly and surrendered his presidential ambitions to his boss, he would have ordered his ‘noisy’ supporters to shut up.

Whoever ‘advised Museveni to intimidate’ these pro-Mbabazi supporters through detaining them blundered. Publically, it indicated that Museveni fear Mbabazi. It also increased popularity for the latter.

As a maverick politician,this what Museveni should have done.  He would have called these ‘noisy’ pro-Mbabazi supporters to State House, furnish each with a sack of money. Why a sack of money each?.  Mbabazi as well is not a joking man, he can also entice them will reasonable amount of money.

Promise them decent and lucrative earning jobs such appointing them as ambassadors, RDCs, if some of them are harbouring political ambitions but targeting the ‘big seat’ guarantee them support, etc. As Anite orchestrated kyankwazi resolution, these Mbabazi die-herders would end their ‘father’.

To prove that pro-Mbaabzi youth can muddle NRM choir, let us explore strength of pro-Morsi university students’ protests in Egypt.  Last semester more than 2,000 students were arrested and about 1,321 are still in prison. As University students across Egypt returned to campuses early this month after reporting date was twice delayed as the ministries of higher education and interior scrambled to make security arrangements to prevent a repeat of last semester’s university-related violence. Egyptians will be braced with another phase of protest.

Let Kayihura and his officers keep off politics

In circumstances where opposition politicians have accused police being Pro-Museveni, police officers must desist from uttering biased statements if the Uganda Police Force is to re-build its public image. Media recently quoted Kayihura saying that a police probe is underway to unravel NRM-linked individuals who have been traversing the country in a bid to secure signatures using methods that amount to criminality.

 I would concur with anyone who asserts that Andrew Felix Kaweesi’s statement political and NRM inclined. He ‘vowed’ that the police would arrest NRM youth members found soliciting for signatures to hold a delegates’ conference without the party’s blessings.