Muniini K. Mulera

Mateke rebellion against the NRM’s anti-democratic practice

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 18, 20240 comments

#Mateke #Akifeza #Ngabirano #Kabagyeni #Bufumbira #Kisoro #NRM #Museveni #ijana

Photo: Bufumbira. © Muniini K. Mulera Last week’s rebellion in Kisoro District was a welcome small step in Uganda’s struggle for freedom. After the allegedly rigged parliamentary primary election of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), in which the apparently ...

Kenya: a warning sign for those with eyes and ears

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 1, 20240 comments

#Kenya #Ruto #Uganda #Museveni

Photo: Kenya Parliament Buildings, Nairobi (built in 1954). After years of chaos in the land, the people that captured power in Uganda in 1986 had the excellent opportunity, space and time to discharge the generally accepted responsibilities of a government, namely, (1) human ...

Museveni should halt Kigyezi wetlands evictions

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 24, 20240 comments

#Wetlands #Swamps #Kigezi #Kigyezi #Museveni #Uganda #Kiruruma

Photo: Remnant of the swamp at Maziba Hydroelectric Falls, Ndorwa, Kigyezi. ********** The presidential directive to evict Ugandan citizens from wetlands is a measure that invites careful reflection and resolution. It invites diehard environmentalists like me to set our emotions ...

Not all Ugandan public servants are corrupt

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 17, 20240 comments

#Corruption #Uganda #Museveni #Green

The fight against corruption in Uganda reminds me of the way Abakiga respond to eshata (a tornado). For those who have never seen this terrifying weather phenomenon, a tornado is a violent column of air, attached to the base of a thunderstorm and extending to the ground, rotating ...

Anita Among’s political suicide

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 14, 20240 comments

#Anita #Among #Museveni

The Right Honourable Anita Annett Among’s goose is cooked. Or if, like me, you prefer African languages to English, dada yetu Among yuko hatarini, ali mu mitawana, ari omukabi. The Ateso say it best. Adaun ngin. She is finished. There is no better example of this ...

How Museveni outfoxed Wamimbi in political draughts

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 16, 20240 comments

#Wamimbi #Bamasaaba #Museveni #Wapakhabulo #NRM #Uganda

Wilson Weasa Wamimbi 1938-2024 (Photo credit: unknown) We are saddened by the death of Wilson Weasa Wamimbi of Bugisu, which occurred on Friday April 12. His family has lost their patriarch. The Bamasaaba have lost their first Umukuuka of Insu ya Masaaba. I have lost ...

In conversation with Museveni 27 years ago

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 16, 20241 comments

#Museveni #Uganda #corruption #education #UPE

Stealing not answer to low wages. _ Museveni, Monday June 23, 1997 In his address to the Global Knowledge '97 conference in Toronto, Canada, on Monday June 23, 1997, President Kaguta Museveni told his audience of nearly 2000 people that it was ...

Favourite Ugandan political autobiographies

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 8, 20240 comments

#Aliker #Museveni #Njuba #Rugumayo #Rukikaire

******************************************************************************************************** If you do not tell your story, someone will. If you have participated in a process, write your witness account, or else you may be erased from the story. ...

Educated elite’s shameless exploitation of Museveni’s generosity

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaJune 5, 20230 comments

#ICOB #Museveni #Banyakigyezi #Banyakigezi #Kabale #Kalimuzo #Ngorogoza

A friend asked me why Banyakigyezi in Uganda seemed to be unable to form sustainable organizations. He cited the Kigezi National Bank of Commerce, and the ICOB-Uganda Chapter as examples. I did not have a clear answer, except that greed and bad politics ...

Paul Ssemogerere’s epitaph: A rebel with hope and perseverance

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 22, 20220 comments

#Ssemogerere #DP #Obote #Museveni #Okello #Lutwa #Uganda

Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere was a rebel. The soft, smiling type, with an easily underestimated resolve. The under-appreciated hero because his conquests did not include blood and human corpses. There was a time when I did not appreciate Ssemogerere’s politics. Why, ...

Is Museveni stepping down in 2026?

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 14, 20220 comments

#Museveni #Muhoozi #Kainerugaba #Uganda

Many Ugandan political commentators appear to be convinced that the “presidential succession” game is already in play. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has been anointed the leading candidate. Numerous people, at home and abroad, are falling over each ...

Uganda at 60 – Poisoned Eden: Model Country, Wrong Dreams, False Starts, Poisoned Country: PROLOGUE to a Series of Articles

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUgandaOctober 8, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Obote #Amin #Museveni #dictatorship

– Prologue – Central message: “Nation of Uganda” is, so far, a failed concept that requires radical rethinking, agreement on, and implementation of measures for its restoration." Bbuye lya Mukanga 1 June 2022 Uganda at 60 – Poisoned ...

Corruption in Uganda: a marriage of the public’s need and officialdom’s greed

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 21, 20220 comments

#Corrruption #Uganda #kitu #kidogo #Museveni #nokofio #kutonyora #egunjechiokomuhomwe #kula #bribe #Nsibambi #Mazrui

Corruption. Inexhaustible subject of conversation and scholarly publications. The heart of darkness that engulfs humanity. The fall of man, described in the Judeo-Christian scripture, was an act of corruption that turned on a fire that still burns hot in every corner of Planet Earth. ...

On peaceful resistance and why I speak the truth to Museveni

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 9, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Museveni #peaceful #resistance #civil #disobedience #defiance

An online newspaper published an article about me last Tuesday, in which the author made false allegations that suggested deliberate disinformation or loss of the struggle with the English language. He was reacting to my column of Tuesday May 3 titled “Tibuhaburwa dynasty ...

Tibuhaburwa Dynasty still stoppable

By Muniini K. MuleraMay 3, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Museveni #Tibuhaburwa #Muhoozi #Kainerugaba

The imposition of the Tibuhaburwa Dynasty is now full steam ahead. General Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa’s contempt for the electoral regulations and military codes of the land will not be the last laws he sets aside in pursuit of his dynastic agenda. Obviously, in societies where ...

Tibuhaburwa Dynasty begins

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 25, 20220 comments

#Muhoozi #Kainerugaba #Museveni #Uganda #Rwanda #Rwabugiri #Ssali

The weekend-long, multi-venue festival, dubbed a birthday party for Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, was not a celebration of an event that happened 48 years ago. It was okwanjura (formal introduction) of the crown prince and heir to the Ugandan throne. With that kwanjura, President Yoweri ...