Arusha, Tanzania 📍🇹🇿
I had the honor of representing Uganda's youth at the East African Youth Parliament hosted at the East African Community Secretariat.
I had the privilege of tabling my proposal during the third motion of the session. A motion appealing to the East African Community and its partner states to institutionalise meaningful youth participation at the local, national and regional levels.
Standing before that floor and speaking for young people across the region is a moment I will carry with me. Youth voices deserve a permanent seat at the table not just an invitation once in a while.
I urged the partner states to create direct slots for youth representation in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) in that we secure a structural guaranteed representation and contribute to the regional integration.
Sincere thanks to @FarajaAfricaFdn for the platform and the trust.
#EACYouthParliament || #VijanaAssembly
🚨 🔥Zlatan on Guendouzi after the Fenerbahçe vs Lyon:
🗣️ I watched the circus. Everybody wants a villain with hair. Fine. I will give you the real order of events,
“People want me to say Guendouzi is a clown. I will not.
I played in France. I know that stadium. I know that rivalry. When 55,000 people start on your mother and your children before the warm-up even finishes, that is not ‘atmosphere.’ That is cheap. In France they stop matches for less. The referee heard it. The fourth official heard it. Nobody said a word. So don’t come now with the moral lecture.
Guendouzi is a Marseille boy in a Lyon house. They chose him as the enemy before kick-off. He played 90 minutes in that noise, his team scored twice away from home, and Fenerbahçe are in the Champions League for the first time in 18 years. That is the job. The rest is theatre.
The Jul sign is not a crime. ‘Allez l’OM’ is not a crime. A middle finger after they sang about his family for an hour and a half is ugly, yes — but it is not the first punch. The first punch was in the stands. If you throw stones for 90 minutes, do not cry when one comes back.
Then a 48-year-old goalkeeping coach runs like Cantona to kick a player. That is not passion. That is a grown man losing his mind because his club just missed the Champions League again. Lyon have been outside the big table for years. Frustration is allowed. A flying kick from the staff is not. Ederson and the others did what teammates do — they stood in front of their guy. That is football. That is loyalty.
Tolisso told him to be humble. Fine. Captains talk. I respect that. But humility is not standing there like a statue while 60,000 people insult your kids. Maturity is also knowing when the other side already crossed the line.
Guendouzi could have walked down the tunnel in silence. That would have been smarter. He didn’t. He is who he is. But if we only punish the player who answers and we ignore the stadium that started it, and we ignore the coach who tried to kick him, then we are not talking about respect. We are talking about who has the better PR.
I don’t love every gesture. I love that he didn’t fold. Lions get booed. Sheep ask for a statement. That is the difference.”
CAN CORRUPTION FIGHT CORRUPTION? HELL NO!
When the young people of Uganda organised anti-corruption marches in 2024, Museveni boldly declared war on them, saying they were playing with fire. Indeed, those who attempted to protest were abducted or arrested and subjected to untold torture, including sexual assault and rape! That was Museveni protecting corruption and the corrupt!
I have now seen Museveni’s ministers running up and down purportedly exposing the massive, runaway corruption at various ministries, agencies, and local governments.
First, they're helping confirm what we've always said that the regime is simply a criminal enterprise masquerading as a government. You hear of the scandals in his government and shudder. They're telling you that on average, constructing a public road, hospital, or school costs five or six times more than what should be spent, because these officials are always inflating the cost of every government project.
No wonder those thieves (who should be public servants) always do everything possible to protect the regime because they know that it would be game over for them when government changes. In fact, they invest so much of that stolen money in ensuring the regime remains in power against the will of the people.
The people of Uganda must remain steadfast and not be distracted by the superficial crusades. They're not capable of tackling the problem. A serious government, faced with such evidence of failure and rot for four decades, would simply resign.
What these ministers are talking about does not even account for 1% of the mess. Corruption begins right from State House and spreads like a cancer to all institutions. A former IGG talked of how every time she tried to go for the REAL MAFIAS - the big fish, she would find them hiding behind Museveni’s back! We've all seen how he uses hundreds of billions of public funds to engage in open bribery during elections. We've seen him bribe MPs with billions to pass oppressive laws. We've seen how he's always in the market trying to buy off political opponents at all levels. We've seen him award government contracts to friends and relatives without following due process. We've seen him engage in the worst forms of corruption, cronyism, and nepotism. We've seen him abuse and run down all institutions of state with impunity - Parliament, the judiciary, etc. We've seen how he inserts trillions in every budget for 'classified expenditure' with only him knowing what that money does. And in each year, he comes back for supplementary budgets! Money, most of which is borrowed. He is the chief priest of corruption. The scandals that have taken place under his watch are too many to mention.
Worse still, he has presided over the most disgusting levels of electoral fraud not seen elsewhere in the recent past - going to an extent of rigging LC1 elections conducted by lining up! Shamelessly declaring NRM candidates winners even where some of those declared got 20 votes against opponents with over 400 votes! To-date Byabakama has failed to release the DR Forms, the basis of which he declared Museveni elected with 71%. Because he knows the people's vote was just grabbed on gunpoint! All that is corruption.
Therefore, Museveni's regime lacks any moral authority to say anything about corruption. Some of his appointed ministers are known thieves and plunderers. We all remember how he personally frustrated the former IGG's initiative on lifestyle audits of public officials.
In short, a government that is built on and survives on corruption can not fight corruption. The talk of exposing and fighting corruption is part of the politricks that he has played on our people for decades. The people of Uganda deserve a government of their own choosing - a government which they can hold accountable. A government of the people, by the people, for the people!
Museveni’s criminal son, acting with his father’s full approval, has moved to silence Uganda’s remaining independent voices by shutting down @NTVUganda, @DailyMonitor, @DembeFM, and @SparkTV.
This is the hash reality we now face, a country under open military rule, where fear replaces law and force replaces accountability.
But history is clear. Dictators always escalate repression towards their fall, pressing every button in desperation, until they press the one they never expected to be their last.
Uganda will be free!
They treat us as subhuman.
They kill our people for fun
They rape our sisters and brothers.
They torture us on camera.
They abduct us without remorse.
They tear families apart.
They drive people into exile.
They push others to commit suicide.
They rig elections with impunity.
They mock us and post humiliating images of our comrades in captivity.
Then they ask us “What will you do about it?”
But when we remind them, that they too are mortal, and that pain has a way of returning to its source, they suddenly remember the language of ‘morality’.
Go and preach that fake morality to Yasin Kawuma’s mother.
Preach it to the children of Johnbosco Kibalama., Eddy Mutwe or Waiswa Mufumbiro.
Preach it to the family of John Ddamulira and to the countless other victims of the Museveni family.
Don’t try to weaponize ‘morality’ to shield injustice and brutality.
It won’t work with this generation!
Yes, we believe in morality, but silence in the face of injustice is not morality. It is complicity, it is hypocrisy!
They treat us as subhuman.
They kill our people for fun
They rape our sisters and brothers.
They torture us on camera.
They abduct us without remorse.
They tear families apart.
They drive people into exile.
They push others to commit suicide.
They rig elections with impunity.
They mock us and post humiliating images of our comrades in captivity.
Then they ask us “What will you do about it?”
But when we remind them, that they too are mortal, and that pain has a way of returning to its source, they suddenly remember the language of ‘morality’.
Go and preach that fake morality to Yasin Kawuma’s mother.
Preach it to the children of Johnbosco Kibalama., Eddy Mutwe or Waiswa Mufumbiro.
Preach it to the family of John Ddamulira and to the countless other victims of the Museveni family.
Don’t try to weaponize ‘morality’ to shield injustice and brutality.
It won’t work with this generation!
Yes, we believe in morality, but silence in the face of injustice is not morality. It is complicity, it is hypocrisy!
President Yoweri Museveni and First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports Janet Museveni have hosted the Teso Widows Development Initiative at their country home in Irenga, Ntungamo district.
#VisionUpdates
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