The son of former Museveni confidant and Local Government minister Jaberi Bidandi Ssali was shot five times on Saturday night. Muganda artiste Moses Ssali, aka Bebe Cool, narrowly escaped death when a member of a special NRM government militia called Special Police Constables pumped five bullets into him. The SPC member, Alfred Achikane, also shot a regular policeman who was with Ssali and two civilians in Bebe Cool’s group.
Shortly after Bebe Cool’s shooting the police released a report that the singer was shot in a scuffle with police. They did not explain why the regular policeman who was moving with Bebe Cool or why more than 10 rounds of bullets had been fired at unarmed people. Bebe Cool quickly refuted the Police claims. Then on Tuesday the Rwandan chief of the Uganda police, Kalyekezi Kayihura, went to visit Bebe Cool at Nsambya Hospital, where the musician was telling his vistors that he had reported to Kayihura days before that some unknown people were making phone threats on his life.
Ssali’s shooting comes exactly three months after the unexplained death of the son of another Muganda politician and former Museveni confidant, current vice president Gilbert Bukenya. The vice president’s son died in an suspicious road accident while travelling from a military training camp in Ssingo county. Brian Bukenya was a lawyer and, like Museveni’ s son Muhoozi Kainerugaba, was going to attend the elite British military academy, Sandhurst. At Brian Bukenya’s funeral in Kakiri, Busiro county, president Museveni promised an investigation, saying: “If you analyse, you will find something wrong. Either the driver slept, or they were over speeding, or those two, plus not having seatbelts on.” The investiagtion has never started.
The SPC is a semi-trained extra legal militia that was created by Museveni to ease unemployment for those former army personnel and redundant youths with strong connections to the NRM. Members of the SPC are notorious for their frequent and liberal use of guns against civilians. For example in February 2009, SPC Paul Bayiga, stormed into Kaloke Christian High School in Nakaseke, Bulemeezi county, and shot two students who were leading a strike over poor food and other complaints.
During the first weak of October 2009, a Muganda taxi driver Fred Mugenyi from Kisimbanyiriri village Buddu county was shot dead by SPC Joachim Kugonza for trying to run away from traffic police who asked him to show his driving license. The police commander, Kayihura, personally visited the family, admitted that the shooting appeared to be a murder, apologized and compensated them with Shs 1M, 100kg of maize floor, 100kg of beans and 50kg of sugar.
February 4th, 2010 at 11:20 am
Bidandi Ssali is a Rwandese refugee. This Rwandese son of his is an NRM die hard married to a Rwandese(?) woman. When this Rwandese man sings about his Rwandese woman in Buganda, you cant help but wonder whether he use her name as a metorphor for his country Rwanda. He swears undying love for her. Once they separated and he released a song deploring her to come back promising her the world. All this would be okay if it wasn’t happening on Buganda soil and at this time of occupation by these ungrateful Rwandese gangsters and their accomplices.
Just ask yourselves how many civilians have been given police protection because they’ve been having death threats? And how many still, who haven’t even died from police bullets, have had the Kayihura and Nabakoobas go apologise to them? We didn’t see it happen to the young lads who were killed because they happenned to be in the wrong places during the demonstration.
That’s why I say, leave these people alone for now. It’s Rwandese business. Let’s concentrate on liberating our Buganda.
Long Live The King of Buganda.
February 5th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
Museveni asasulidde Bebe Cool eddwaaliro.
Bebe Cool nga ayogera ku bukodyo bwaabe ne Munnarwanda munne Museveni:
“N’abayimbi bange Doddo ne Cobra yabasasulidde ne yewuunya nnyo kubanga ye abadde amanyi nti nze nzekka gwe baakuba.” Bebe bwe yagambye kyokka yagaanyi okwogera ssente, Museveni ze yamuwadde. Mwana omanyi abateesi bangi.
Zuena bwe yali anobye: Kubamu akafaananyi ssinga Zuena taliiwo. Ani yandibadde anzijanjaba. Mwana nnandiswadde nnyo, Pulezidenti okujja wano ku kitanda nga ndiwo nzekka. Omuntu omunene nga nze nnetaaga okubaawo n’omukyala ku kitanda ‘ampa drink(eky’okunywa) n’okunkwatako awannuma.
Olw’okusiima Zuena okunzijanjaba, yagambye: nja kumuweera wano ku kitanda akalabo k’olunaku lw’abaagalana ate bwe tunaava mu ddwaaliro nkole entegeka okumukwasa ekirabo ekizito ekimugyamu.
“N’okutya kwampeddemu. Nnabadde ndowoza nti amasasi gayinza okummalamu amaanyi g’ekisajja, amaka gafe.
Mpulira amaanyi mu mubiri era ng’omujaasi omutendeke ne saluti nkuba. Nkakasa olunaava ku kitanda, tujja kudda eka ne Zuena omukwano gwaffe gutojjere”, bwe yagambye.
Ku Lwokutaano Bebe Cool yazziddwaayo mu sweeta okulongoosebwa omulundi ogusembayo. Yagenze atambula. N’agamba: kati sweeta sikyagitya kubanga y’ejja okunnyamba okuwona.
February 6th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Bebe Cool ayagala obukadde 2,000
Omumyuka wa Pulezidenti Polof. Gilbert Bukenya naye yakyalidde Bebe Cool mu dwaliro e Nsambya, nakubibwa naye ebifaananyi nga yeetegereza okugulu kwe.
Okuva kweekyo Bebe Cool asabye Pulezidenti Museveni obukadde 2,000 bwe buwumbi bw’ensimbi bubiri ng’agamba nti zino z’ensimbi z’agenda okufiirwa mu bbanga ery’emyezi ena ly’agenda okumala nga tayimba.