The President has publicly mentioned it that there is rogue elements in @StateHouseUg and he some have been arrested. Stephen Nuwagaba will also be arrested. When you read the whole story from @AndrewMwenda ‘s Independent Magazine, you will know that he is a danger to the security of our country.
China was once as backward as us, but through development, it advanced and reached the moon. Today, the United States, China, Russia, and India have sent people to the moon, while countries like Britain remain on Earth with us.~ President Museveni
1994.
Constituent Assembly, Kampala.
Akbar Adoko Nekyon paused to speak.
He had been Obote's first cousin, a minister in the independence government, a key player in the 1966 crisis that shattered Uganda's first democracy.
Now, before a chamber that included President Museveni, the old politician declared, "I have changed."
The Maverick's Confession: Nekyon at the Constituent Assembly - 1994
To understand the weight of those words, one had to understand 1966.
Nekyon had been a central figure in the UPC/KY alliance that brought Obote to power.
He had helped build the very political order that Obote then destroyed, suspending the constitution and attacking the Kabaka's palace.
Nekyon had crossed the floor to the Democratic Party after that fracture.
Now, nearly three decades later, dressed in a cream Kaunda suit, he sat before the assembly tasked with writing Uganda's new constitution and made a declaration that was both personal and political:
The ability to change one's mind is not a weakness but the "highest democratic virtue" and proof of a "living political mind".
He then held up a mirror to the room.
He listed the political migrations of those who might accuse him of hypocrisy, Vice President Speciosa Wandira Kazibwe, Ruhakana Rugunda, and even President Museveni himself.
Change, he argued, was a constant in their political journeys too.
By doing so, he dismantled the accusation of inconsistency and reframed the debate.
His speech became not a defence of his own record, but a challenge to the entire political class to embrace a system that allowed for peaceful evolution.
His tone softened as he concluded, shifting from combatant to elder statesman.
His "I have changed" became a plea for a system robust enough to allow such evolution peacefully.
The true measure of a democracy, he insisted, was not its ability to enforce orthodoxy but its capacity to tolerate and integrate change.
The cream of his suit was a quiet beacon of a principled stand in a room swirling with the new politics of conformity.
He had seen it all, independence, crisis, exile, return, and his final message was a warning:
A nation that can not accommodate peaceful political change is destined for violent upheaval.
What does it mean when an architect of a broken past stands before the builders of a new future and admits he has changed, not as a confession of guilt, but as a demand that the new system must allow others to do the same?
Nekyon's 1994 speech was a masterclass in political honesty.
He did not ask for forgiveness.
He asked for a constitution that made future 1966s impossible.
The chamber listened.
The words remain.
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It's me, Janet Museveni. It is a confirmation that the God I talk about is a living God. He is not a myth, He lives!
I must therefore thank Uganda, beginning with Mzee, who has prayed with the whole nation. I praise God for leading us to know Him. Thank you all for coming out publicly to pray for me.
Thank you for all those continuous prayers and also for the kind birthday wishes. Thank you for letting me know just how much I am loved.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN ; 🧾
General Ottafire.. “If a child doesn’t learn from his parents, the universe will teach him”
//what a million dollar speech , let those with ears listen 👂🖐️🌚🤚
I take this opportunity to sincerely thank you, my Chairman for the trust and confidence you placed in me by appointing me as the pioneer General Secretary of PLU. It has been a great honor to serve. To Hon. Fadhil Twalla, I congratulate you on your appointment as General Secretary of PLU. Wishing you every success, Ndugu.