The president of the NRM occupation government in Uganda is stubbornly continuing with his tour of Buganda despite increasing rejection by the citizens of the kingdom. After getting embarrassingly small and hostile crowds in Kyaggwe, Butambala, Buddu and Bugerere counties, the Ugandan dictator decided to take his tour to Busiro, where he fought much of the guerrilla war that brought him to power. But his statehouse decided to change tactics after getting reports that, even there, Baganda were plotting to embarrass him by not attending his functions or with tough questions about CBS PM Radio.
A source close to the presidential protection brigade has informed our stringer in Entebbe that Museveni’ s new tactic for the rest of his Buganda tour will be to avoid big public venues and direct contact with politically bold Baganda peasants. The focus is now to be put to reaching as many places as possible but in impromptu meetings at family homes where even if only 30 people come it is not bad. As part of this tactic, state house will arrange for the president to inspect farms and businesses where it is easy to claim that the purpose was not to get big crowds. It is also much harder for the villagers to ask Museveni challenging questions about CBS FM radio or Kabaka when only a few people are around.
Our source also said that Museveni’s new tactic helped him avoid a major embarrassment in Kakiri, Busiro, two days ago. According to the source: “Museveni made a blunder of going to Kakiri, where Kabaka got crowds of tens of thousands of people only a few months ago. State house found out late that the people could be too few so they arranged for him to visit a few farmers and a widow. They also hurriedly arranged for him to stop at Masulita Secondary School and pretend that he went there to open a building, although it had not been on the original program. Obviously they also got the big crowd of the students.”
The source claims that Museveni will not abandon his Buganda tour again, as he did late last year, because he is not willing to allow Kabaka Mutebi or Baganda to determine what happens at the 2011 elections or after. He said: “Museveni will continue with the tour and continue giving bribes to grass roots people, researching why people love the Kabaka, and collecting information on NRM opponents. And they will only have rallies in places where they can bring in people. You are not likely to see too many photos or TV video even in government owned papers and stations because people will automatically compare to Kabaka Mutebi’ s huge crowds.”
Museveni Changes Tactics To Avoid Embarrassment On Buganda Tour
The president of the NRM occupation government in Uganda is stubbornly continuing with his tour of Buganda despite increasing rejection by the citizens of the kingdom. After getting embarrassingly small and hostile crowds in Kyaggwe, Butambala, Buddu and Bugerere counties, the Ugandan dictator decided to take his tour to Busiro, where he fought much of the guerrilla war that brought him to power. But his statehouse decided to change tactics after getting reports that, even there, Baganda were plotting to embarrass him by not attending his functions or with tough questions about CBS PM Radio.
A source close to the presidential protection brigade has informed our stringer in Entebbe that Museveni’ s new tactic for the rest of his Buganda tour will be to avoid big public venues and direct contact with politically bold Baganda peasants. The focus is now to be put to reaching as many places as possible but in impromptu meetings at family homes where even if only 30 people come it is not bad. As part of this tactic, state house will arrange for the president to inspect farms and businesses where it is easy to claim that the purpose was not to get big crowds. It is also much harder for the villagers to ask Museveni challenging questions about CBS FM radio or Kabaka when only a few people are around.
Our source also said that Museveni‘s new tactic helped him avoid a major embarrassment in Kakiri, Busiro, two days ago. According to the source: “Museveni made a blunder of going to Kakiri, where Kabaka got crowds of tens of thousands of people only a few months ago. State house found out late that the people could be too few so they arranged for him to visit a few farmers and a widow. They also hurriedly arranged for him to stop at Masulita Secondary School and pretend that he went there to open a building, although it had not been on the original program. Obviously they also got the big crowd of the students.”
The source claims that Museveni will not abandon his Buganda tour again, as he did late last year, because he is not willing to allow Kabaka Mutebi or Baganda to determine what happens at the 2011 elections or after. He said: “Museveni will continue with the tour and continue giving bribes to grass roots people, researching why people love the
Kabaka, and collecting information on NRM opponents. And they will only have rallies in places where they can bring in people. You are not likely to see photos and TV video even in government owned papers and stations because people will automatically compare to Kabaka Mutebi’ s huge crowds.”
