Don’t be so quick to judge a man simply because he doesn’t know what you know, or think the way you think. Remember, there was a time when you didn’t know what you know today. -Malcolm X
@Leniacharity “Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent…”Speak only when you have something meaningful to contribute, young girl. Is that too much to ask?!
Acknowledging Museveni's genius at keeping power – 40 years isn't small – I once asked my former boss, @andrewMwenda what M7 did with this power?
Bse after 40 years, we don’t have a public transport system. Not even public buses. Our public health is for the "museum" – as Justice Mulyagonja recently noted. M7's rich friends are commissioning agents for foreign banks, foreign telecoms, foreign miners, foreign coffee exporters. Our tourism sector is just natural resources.
The answer cannot be just keeping power.
It still a question I have.
Amos Wekesa doesn't love this country. That's the hill I am willing to die on. You can't be that greedy, selfish, insensitive and openly contemptuous of Ugandans and you tell me you care about this country. He doesn't give two hoots about the worker bees, just the honey.
The irony of Uganda’s "sovereignty" panic. When the government passed the Protection of Sovereignty Bill into law, it’s promoters bragged about complete independence. Every Western nation was painted as a direct threat. Fast forward to today: the entire state machinery is melting down because the country landed on the Travel Advisory List. Instead of celebrating the isolation they fought for, they are desperately explaining themselves away to the same foreign nations they dismissed. You will learn.
These documents, publicized under America's public disclosure laws, reveal that the Museveni regime is busy hiring foreign agents in Washington DC to white wash its battered image before the world. According to the documents, the regime is executing agreements with American lobbyists to engage American legislators, NGOs, the media, and others on its behalf. But it's too late because the truth about Uganda is already out and absolutely nothing the regime does can buy it back!
The "patriots" just passed a law to deal with foreign influence and followed it through with an impassioned speech against the same at a recent military pass out.
The same "patriots" are now paying heavily to acquire what they are protecting the country from.
Ofcourse some wise people will emphasize the enigmatic nature of state- craft and while at it celebrate the impending deployment in Gaza.
No you don't blame these wise people but the ones who consume the contradictory narratives unquestionably.
Museveni Is Spending More Than Half a Million Dollars in Washington While Uganda's Democracy Unravels
As Uganda's political crisis deepens, newly disclosed lobbying contracts reveal a government investing heavily in Washington and not in democratic reform.
By Dr. Daniel Kawuma
July 16, 2026
For nearly four decades, Gen. Yoweri Museveni has built his political brand around resistance to foreign interference. At official state functions, and international forums, his government has frequently portrayed Western governments as neo-colonial actors seeking to dictate Uganda's political future. Whenever concerns are raised about election integrity, corruption, or human rights, the response from Kampala has often been to denounce outside criticism as an assault on Uganda's sovereignty.
Yet the public record in Washington tells a remarkably different story. New filings under the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) reveals that the Government of Uganda has quietly expanded its lobbying operation in the United States, adding additional firms to represent its interests before Congress, the Executive Branch, and other American policymakers.
Far from distancing itself from Washington, Museveni's government is investing increasingly significant public resources to shape how Washington views his administration at precisely the moment when Uganda's democratic trajectory is attracting heightened international scrutiny.
The latest disclosure follows the government's decision earlier this year to retain veteran Washington lobbyist Joseph Szlavik and his firm, Scribe Strategies & Advisors, under a contract worth $25,000 per month, or approximately $300,000 annually. That agreement was widely viewed as an effort to strengthen Uganda's standing in Washington following the rigged 2026 general elections and growing congressional scrutiny of the country's deteriorating human rights record.
The lobbying effort has now grown substantially. According to newly filed FARA documents, Moran Global Strategies Inc. has entered into an agreement to represent Uganda while retaining Skyline Capitol LLC as a subcontractor to assist with outreach to policymakers, strategic communications, and media engagement.
The agreement provides Skyline Capitol with a monthly retainer of $20,000 beginning July 1, 2026, bringing the value of publicly disclosed lobbying contracts to at least $540,000 annually before accounting for reimbursable expenses or additional consulting arrangements. These figures are drawn directly from publicly available federal disclosures required under U.S. law.
Uganda remains a country where millions of young people face unemployment, hospitals routinely struggle with shortages of medicines and equipment, public schools remain under-resourced, and many communities continue to lack essential infrastructure. Against that backdrop, spending more than half a million dollars annually to influence policymakers thousands of miles away raises legitimate questions about political priorities and public accountability.
The latest FARA filings therefore reveal more than another lobbying agreement. They offer a window into a government increasingly focused on managing perceptions abroad while confronting growing questions about legitimacy at home. Washington should judge Uganda not by the sophistication of its lobbyists, but by the strength of its democratic institutions, the independence of its courts, the freedom of its press, and the rights enjoyed by its citizens.
Lobbyists may shape narratives. They cannot manufacture legitimacy. That responsibility rests with governments themselves, and it is earned through the consent of the governed not through contracts signed on K Street in Washington DC.
Washington Post editorial board on #Uganda:
"Stability by repression is often illusory. The intensifying authoritarianism warrants a review of the United States’ relationship with Uganda."
https://t.co/Q9AsDULktE
The Washington Post's Editorial Board is asking the American government to immediately review its relations with the Museveni dictatorship for rigging elections and oppressing Ugandans. WE CAN'T AGREE MORE! https://t.co/i87JsVlEHq
Regime operatives disguise themselves and commit heinous crimes against us, convinced that the world will simply move on and forget them. Take, for instance, this thug DRAKESON MUHIMBURA, a military officer.
Under police and military protection, Muhimbura led the gang that savagely attacked and grievously wounded us during our presidential campaign in Gulu last year. He thought his identity would remain a mystery forever only for one of his fellow thugs to casually blow his cover! Muhimbura is now desperately begging for the post to be deleted!
Since social media has become our public archive, let us keep these images here, too. When the time is right, THESE ARE THE CRIMINALS TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.