@cobbo3 Terrible... Still, I must confess that I find these sorts of stories quite amusing! Dictatorships are curiously full of inventive ways in which to cause pain and suffering.
If you had told me 10 years ago that a billionaire would accuse humans of drinking too much water in 2026 because data centres need it to power the AI tech that is now threatening our entire way of life, I would have told you to write a better Bond villain, because wtf?
The irony is crazy. The regime shut down newspapers to protect a secret that the secret-keeper now shows off for fun. The thing they said was a dangerous lie in 2013 is the thing Muhoozi brags about in 2026. The journalists who broke the story, Wanambwa and Kasasira, mostly left the Monitor. Sejusa returned from exile, flirted with the opposition, and retired. Kale Kayihura, the police chief who helped plan the raid on the newspapers, later left office through the dock and the prison gate. And the man at the centre of it all rose, exactly on schedule, to the position everyone was punished for predicting.
So the next time the government tells you something is an outrageous lie and sends men with guns to make the point, write down the date. Give it a decade. In Uganda, today’s treasonous rumour has a strange habit of becoming tomorrow’s official programme.
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