Kizza Besigye reacts to President Museveni’s son campaign trail
Ugandan politician Kiiza Besigye has decried what he says is the variation in democracy and governance standards in East Africa.
In response to a tweet shared by Nairobi News, the veteran politician also insisted that Ugandans have to be liberated from President Yoweri Museveni’s regime, which he’s consisted described as dictatorial.
Besigye, who has severally been arrested and tortured by Ugandan authorities, did not clarify how the democracy standards vary within the seven East African community member countries of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The 66-year-old who has vied for the presidency on four occasions but lost to Museveni in all of them also stopped short of sharing the supposed liberation road map for Ugandans.
That’s why @jumuiya remains a joke; when governance standards in member States are worlds apart and without viable mechanisms to align them!
Ug’s institutions are fully captured by @KagutaMuseveni family.
A liberation struggle is underway. https://t.co/JogupDrtPa— Kifefe Kizza-Besigye (@kizzabesigye1) January 25, 2023
The tweet by Nairobi News highlighted President Yoweri Museveni’s son Muhoozi Kainerugaba on the political campaign trail surrounded by armored military vehicles in Eastern Uganda.
Muhoozi has repeatedly shared his plans to vie for the presidency in the August 2022 polls ‘as per the wishes of her mother.’
Muhoozi, who is a General in the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) has also clarified that he will vie for the presidency if his dad allows him to.
Besides declaring his presidential bid, Muhoozi, 47, has also attracted controversy in recent times by declaring on two separate occasions that he will commandeer the UPDF to capture Kenya’s capital Nairobi.
The comments precipitated a diplomatic tiff between the two countries and forced President Museveni to pen an apology before Muhoozi dismissed the outbursts as a ‘joke’.
Meanwhile, Uganda vice-president Jessica Alupo has led a number of Museveni loyalists in declaring that the Head of State will seek to extend his four-decade tenancy at State House by contesting for a seventh-five year in the 2026 presidential elections.
That’s why @jumuiya remains a joke; when governance standards in member States are worlds apart and without viable mechanisms to align them!
Ug’s institutions are fully captured by @KagutaMuseveni family.
A liberation struggle is underway. https://t.co/JogupDrtPa— Kifefe Kizza-Besigye (@kizzabesigye1) January 25, 2023
His sentiments attracted varied reactions by Ugandans on Twitter.
If we Ugandans don't organise and stop this succession plan then everyone will cry in his own way
— Jacob Kato (@JacobKa34593446) January 26, 2023
Up to this time, I don't understand in which capacity he was in sebei ?? A serving soldier campaigning for political office??
History will tell & judge!!— byamukama (@byamuka80706904) January 25, 2023
Hahahaha why didn't he move on foot like bobi wine does, the public is the best security ever hahaha he claims to be loved but hmmmm the truth is known by his heart
— Adrian Micheal (@AdrianMicheal16) January 26, 2023
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