By Mulengera Reporters
Butambala County MP Mohammed Muwanga Kivumbi on Wednesday used his prime time on 89.2 fm CBS radio’s Kiriza Oba Gana program to enumerate reasons why he believes that Gen Museveni hates Buganda which is why the newly commissioned campaign dubbed “Buganda for Museveni in 2026” is dead on arrival.
Kivumbi (who is also the NUP Deputy President for Buganda, Buganda caucus and PAC Chairman) said that Museveni is a bad man who doesn’t deserve any support in Buganda because he has vicsciously marginalised the region whose King Ronnie Mutebi did a lot to amplify his 1981-1986 NRA bush war. Kivumbi explained that there is nothing Buganda has benefited from Gen Museveni.
He added that the pro-Kyagulanyi rejection he suffered in 2021 made Gen Museveni to hate Buganda even more to the extent of stopping his pretences. Kivumbi ran through all key government positions in a bid to illustrate the extent to which Museveni had accelerated his marginalisation and exclusion of Buganda; following the 2021 rejection by voters who went for Bobi Wine and other NUP candidates.
He spoke about the positions like the VP, PM, the four Deputy Premiers, security agencies’ heads and the recent Bank of Uganda apex deployments. None of these is occupied by a Muganda as is the case with the top leadership of Parliament and the Judiciary.
Kivumbi made reference to all these and much more. He said all this humiliating exclusion is indicating of how determined Gen Museveni is to use levers that come with being President to relentlessly punish people from Buganda region. He made it clear that the region has a lot of qualified people but the veteran leader from Rwakitura is too paranoid to make use of them.
Saying he accesses a lot of resources allocation-related information, including that which is classified, Kivumbi added that Kabaka’s region has also deliberately been alienated on all key and major infrastructure projects-and all this is deliberate by Gen Museveni because he is angry and out to do retribution against Buganda. “As the PAC Chairman, I access and review a lot of official government documents relating to key infrastructure projects and I can tell you this region has deliberately been marginalised and left out even when it makes the largest contribution to the country’s GDP and tax revenues,” said Kivumbi who refused to directly respond to claims by fellow panelist Emmanuel Ddombo of NRM who claimed that Buganda Caucus had died under his leadership and become a shadow of its former self.
Ddombo had accused Kivumbi of failing to use the Caucus as a platform to engage the President and the entire NRM government aparatus to lobby public goods for Kabaka’s people. Kivumbi maintained that the region was deliberately being punished by Gen Museveni because things were never better even under his Buganda Caucus predecessors-all of whom were NRM. These included Tim Lwanga, Rose Namayanja, Godfrey Kiwanda and Johnson Muyanja Ssenyonga etc.
Muwanga Kivumbi also referred to the many years Kabaka’s CBS radio operated without the UCC broadcasting license and said all this was indicative of a President who has an incurable vandetta against Buganda. He also controversially claimed that the largest fraction of contemporary Uganda’s prison population comprises of Baganda inmates from Buganda. He didn’t corroborate this claim and the moderator Meddie Nsereko never prompted him to.
Kivumbi said that the NUP party, for which he is Deputy President, is determined to leverage the 2026 campaigns to turn Buganda’s deliberate marginalisation and exclusion into a campaign issue. “I can assure you that this Buganda for Museveni thing is a mere slogan and it will fail because there is simply no reason why people in Buganda can reward Museveni or even consider allying with him again on anything.”
Muwanga Kivumbi said he was sure as night falls day that Gen Museveni and other NRM candidates are going to face even worse rejection in 2026 than was the case in 2021.
And we at Mulengera News believe the Butambala MP has a point because with more and more young people getting onto the voters’ register and more places getting urbanized and exposed to social media proliferation, there is simply no way the veteran leader from Rwakitura is going to ever regain Buganda-not even in the rural remote parts of the Kingdom. Yes, he recaptured the greater North, which had rejected him since 1996, but Buganda is a different ball game altogether (as we shall explain in greater detail in our subsequent reporting).
Apart from brutalizing people and becoming more repressive and more paranoid, there is nothing remarkable that Gen Museveni and his NRM have done to regain initiative or upper hand in Buganda where even Ministers (with exception of Dr
Sam Mayanja and a few others) these days’ fear to be seen driving in government vehicles leave alone going anywhere to sing praises and publicly say nice things about the man who has been Uganda’s President for now 40 years without break.
BACK TO MUWANGA KIVUMBI:
On the CBS show, the Butambala County MP also asserted that the blossoming relationship between Gen Museveni and leaders from West Nile, Acholi and Lango sub regions, into which hundreds of billions are being pumped to finance public infrastructure projects, is an insult and an act of political provocation meant to demonstrate to people and leaders in Buganda that “there is nothing you can ever do to NRM and its chairman.”
Kivumbi asserted that the people Gen Museveni has empowered and put in key government positions from these above referenced region amount to clearly being insensitive to Buganda and its leaders. He claimed that many of the historical injustices Buganda suffered in the early or first 25 years of Independence were orchestrated and championed by political or military leaders and actors from those very regions of greater Northern Uganda.
These injustices remain unatoned which is why Muwanga Kivumbi believes that prioritizing politicians and other leaders from those regions, by giving them national level positions, could be part of Gen Museveni’s broader scheme to demystify the people and leaders from Buganda region. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
