By Mulengera Reporters
Recently, Deputy Premier Rebecca Kadaga spoke at a public function in the presence of Busoga Kingdom top leadership and reported that a small clique of MPs from the sub region are out to undermine her to lose the position of 2nd national vice chairperson of NRM (which makes her CEC member) so that Bukedea Woman MP, also Speaker Anita Among, takes it.
She announced that these cash-splashing traitors are being led by long-serving Kigulu County MP Milton Muwuma Kalulu. This has since caused Busoga social media users on WhatsApp platforms, like RAK Kamuli Woman MP Sole Candidate, to define Muwuma as Mama Busoga’s political enemy number one in the politically very volatile sub region.
The Kadaga speech effectively incited ordinary voters in Kigulu which is why Muwema is beginning to feel the pressure from the constituency. He went public about this over the weekend at Nakigo Sub County’s Nakisene village where he addressed guests at Councilor George Mulinda’s daughter’s introduction ceremony.
At the introduction ceremony, Muwuma made reference to the Boda riders violence he suffered at a burial he had attended earlier in the day. That as he left the burial to come for the introduction, a group of young men (all of them Boda riders) intercepted and blocked his posh vehicle in a bid to prevent him from exiting. That this was their way of demonstrating their resentment against him as the incumbent MP for Kigulu South in Iganga district.
Muwuma says these young men had been incited to bully and molest him in favor of one of his opponents for the NRM flag come 2026. Perhaps having realised that he was unlikely to get back up from mourners at the funeral, Muwuma played it cool and struggled to escape lynching by Boda riders. “But as I escaped, one notorious Boda rider called Abdul banged my vehicle real hard which amounted to an act of political violence,” Muwuma said at the introduction vowing to decisively fight back.
He made it clear that, much as its okay for anyone to stand against him because the MP Seat isn’t his inheritance, it was criminal and unacceptable for the politically naive young boys to be incited to engage in acts of political violence against a big man like himself.
Saying he was used to being abused by voters and those who dislike him as a long-serving MP, Muwuma said he had lodged a complaint with Police whose CID officers have already opened up a criminal file of inciting violence against Abdul and his accomplices.
Muwuma said he was ready to be hated even more by parents in his constituency but he wouldn’t renege on his duty as a parent to work with Police to discipline rogue-minded youngmen like Abdul. He said if not mitigated, actions like Abdul’s would soon turn public functions like burials and weddings into grounds for bloodshed.
He said it would be betrayal of the NRM party for a leader like him to merely look on when people’s children are being incited by his opponents to engage in acts of violence. He said that NRM is a party of peace in whose name no one will be tolerated to commit acts of violence and political hooliganism. He said especially burials ought to be respected so that the deceased can be sent off with dignity.
Muwuma clarified that it had been agreed that Abdul and his accomplices don’t immediately be apprehended during the weekend to honor Gen YK Museveni (the NRM Chairman) who had just concluded his wealth creation mobilisation tour of Busoga sub region.
In 2026, the under-fire Milton Muwuma Kalulu got back his Kigulu South MP Seat by polling 9,424 votes against archrival Patrick Kayemba’s 7,550. Others were Andrew Kaluya Kiiza Namitego (6,547), NUP’s Rogers Mukisa (3,356), Ian Waisswa (1,803), Brenda Bayogera (1,536), Asuman Kyairala (1,361), Ronald Kyamagero (1,305), Faham Mutanda (936), Emmamuel Mugoya (570), Salim Kinyiri (427), FDC’s Musa Karim Bulagala (252), ANT’s Allie Bassey Kibwika-Muyinda (213) and Godfrey Masubo (103).
Clearly, Muwuma was rejected by voters as early as January 2025 except that his opponents split the protest vote. Had they come together and rallied behind one candidate, clearly the long-serving Milton Muwuma Kalulu would have landed in the political Taiwan (where he belongs) long time ago. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
