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 ...

Corruption, an evil that nourishes the NRM’s rule in Uganda

By Muniini K. MuleraJune 11, 20240 comments

#Corruption #Uganda #NRM

I heard the speech. I lost all hope. My optimism, crashed by words, spoken by my president, in his State-of-the-Nation address. An opportunity lost, another surrender to corruption, Uganda’s greatest threat. Having nurtured a state, of unprecedented corruption, my president ...

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 ...

Choice before Ugandans is not Bobi Wine or Muntu versus Museveni

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 24, 20200 comments

#Uganda #Museveni #NRM #Obote #Okello #Amin #Muntu #Bobi #Wine #Kyagulanyi

I had decided to stay clear of all comment on the latest pretence of “democratic competition” for Uganda’s presidency. Whereas we have new faces in the cast of those who are challenging Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni, the incumbent president, the script is unchanged. ...

Post-Museveni transition should be every Ugandan’s concern

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 29, 20201 comments

#Uganda #Museveni #NRM #Obote #Okello #Amin

Notwithstanding my serious disagreement with much of President Yoweri K. Museveni’s politics, policies and actions, I acknowledge a lot of good that he has done in his 35 years in power. When we look at Museveni’s Uganda and compare it to the Amin-Obote II-Okello ...

NRM Salections, not elections, and the arrogance of power

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 8, 20200 comments

#NRM #Uganda #Museveni #Rukuutana #Rusheenyi #Ntungamo #Sembabule #Nyabushozi #Bukanga

First things first. Uganda’s National Resistance Movement has completed its decades-long metamorphosis into a National Resistance Market (NRM). The ruler’s subjects have votes for sale. Candidates present themselves for a pretend election. Loaded with plenty of cash, ...

Ten Point Program of Uganda's National Resistance Movement (NRM) - 1984

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 24, 20200 comments

#NRM #Ten #Point #Program #Uganda #Museveni

Ten-Point Programme of NRM First published in 1984 by NRM Publications The National Resistance Council of the National Resistance Movement, together with the High Command and Senior Officers of the National Resistance Army (NRA) under the chairmanship of President Yoweri Museveni, ...

Evelyn Anite: Omerta! You are part of the Mafia

By Muniini K. MuleraAugust 26, 20190 comments

#Anite #Mafia #Museveni #NRM #Uganda

Evelyn Anite, Uganda’s Minister of State for Investment and Privatisation, is in a bit of a pickle. To be more culturally correct, she is facing the frightful consequences of putting her finger in the leopard’s anus. Understandably terrified by her predictable ...

Memories of a beautiful romance with Museveni

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 29, 20190 comments

#Museveni #NRM #Bobi #Wine #Uganda

Exactly 33 years ago today, while standing on the steps of Uganda’s Parliament, with the Holy Bible held high in his right hand, a young Yoweri K. Museveni took the oath of office as president of Uganda. The formalities dispensed with, the triumphant guerrilla ...

Virtues of political colour blindness

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 17, 20180 comments

#Uganda #NRM #Political #colour

The first time I had an opportunity to choose my own clothes was in 1966 when my mother took me to Bachu’s, our favourite clothier’s shop Omugabahindi (in the Indian section) in Kabale Town. I chose a red T-shirt that had clearly been made with me in mind. It was the beginning ...