Muniini K. Mulera

Benoni Biraaro: epitome of a great army general

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 18, 20200 comments

In the days gone by, the great poets of Ankole would have already composed ebyevugo (heroic recitations) in praise of Buta bwa Biraaro bya Kagina. Not because of his exploits in the heroic struggle in the jungles of Luwero or his military valor in the post-1986 combat zones inside ...

Museveni: Follow great threat, not great trek, with real trek

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 20, 20200 comments

#Museveni #great #trek #life #presidency

Yoweri Museveni’s great trek down memory lane last week was about the future, not the past. His future, not that of his subjects. The president, not one to do things fwaaa, was sending a barely veiled message to those with illusions of taking power ...

Museveni walk against corruption a mockery of its victims

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 10, 20190 comments

#Museveni #corruption #uganda

Last week’s presidential walk against corruption was a cynical manipulation of its victims. It was a deceitful dance of the insatiable gourmand before digging deeper into the national cake. It was the futile effort of the sorcerer’s apprentice long after defeat by ...

Janet Museveni: Obey God, hear your people’s cry and rebel against injustice

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 4, 20190 comments

#Janet #Museveni #Makerere #strike #Peaceful #resistance #Christianity #and #disobedience

Janet Museveni, Uganda’s minister of education and wife of the president, wrote an impassioned letter last week in response to the student strike at Makerere University. In her letter, Janet focused on corruption among the students, including alleged use of paid professional ...

Response to Janet Museveni: Did you speak as First Lady, Minister of Education, Pastor or Grandma? - By Andrew Karamagi

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 30, 20190 comments

#Janet #Museveni #Makerere #Strikes #Andrew #Karamagi

Dear “Maama”, To begin with, I have a mother, just like millions of other Ugandans. This is both a statement of fact and a biological necessity. Even though I am one of those who cannot, for a number of reasons, refer to you as Maama, I am of the firm view ...

Corruption behind the Makerere student strike - By Janet K. Museveni, Ugandan Minister of Education

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 30, 20190 comments

#Corruption #in #Uganda #Janet #Museveni #Makerere #University #Student #strike

(Photo of Mrs Janet Museveni by State House, Uganda) To the Ugandan Children who Call me Maama by Choice, Today, I would like to discuss the topic of corruption with you. The Oxford English Dictionary defines corruption as the dishonest or illegal behavior especially ...

Uganda: Who is the true patriot?

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 11, 20190 comments

#Patriotism #Seezi #Cheeye #Mukombe #Mpambara #Museveni #Kategaya

Admirers of particular leaders or rulers demand that we blindly praise their heroes. To criticize their hero, whether in life or in death, is to invite the wrath of those who prefer that history be edited to reflect an image of a perfect being, not a fallible one. Deify him, don't ...

Uganda@57: Change political leadership and culture

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda PoliticsOctober 1, 20190 comments

#Uganda #independence #Museveni #politics #leadership

Independent Uganda turns 57 next week. As usual, I have been scouring the newspaper reports from the critical period of 1961-1963. A news report by the Chicago Daily News Service, filed from Nairobi on March 15, 1962 caught my eye. Under the headline “Politics Is The Tail ...

Museveni, Kayihura free to invest anywhere they want

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 23, 20190 comments

#Museveni #Kayihura #Uganda #Foreign #Investment #Claire #Short

I enjoyed reading President Yoweri K. Museveni’s response to the American government’s sanctions against Kale Kayihura. I agree with him that banning a non-American from entering the United States is not a matter of life and death. Whereas I was disappointed that, ...

American sanctions against Kale Kayihura: Why him? Why now?

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 16, 20190 comments

#Sanctions #Kayihura #Uganda #Museveni

The news that the United States Government had sanctioned Kale Kayihura, the former Inspector General of the Ugandan Police Force, for serious human rights abuses and alleged involvement in corruption, left me greatly puzzled. No, I was not surprised that the Americans ...

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 ...

There is no quarrel between Ugandans and Rwandans

By Muniini K. MuleraMarch 11, 20190 comments

#Uganda #Rwanda #Museveni #Kagame

Newspapers and other news media are perpetuating a falsehood that there is tension between Ugandans and Banyarwanda (Rwandans). In fact, there is no quarrel between the citizens of the two neighbouring countries. Obviously there is tension between the two countries’ ...

Uganda’s Museveni and Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew: more different characters hard to imagine

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 5, 20190 comments

#Lee #Kuan #Yew #Singapore #Museveni

Photo: Singapore's financial district A common refrain by partisans of Uganda’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) goes something like this: “President Yoweri Museveni’s prolonged stay in power is not a unique phenomenon. How long was Singapore’s Lee ...

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 ...

Museveni needs protection of foolish laws?

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 6, 20190 comments

#Museveni #Protest #Uganda #Justice

FROM THE ARCHIVES Museveni needs protection of foolish laws? By Muniini K. Mulera July 10, 2000 Dear Tingasiga: News that the police had laid charges against a group of Makerere University students for allegedly annoying the President was another ...

The president, his trusted adversary and a magnificent catastrophe

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 5, 20190 comments

#Museveni #Mbabazi #Uganda #elections #2016

Twenty years from now, my grandchildren will read with deep fascination a spell-binding account of a defining presidential election in which two former close comrades fought each other. They will read that the two men had enjoyed a long partnership leading a heroic struggle ...