By Mulengera Reporters
Speaking during his NBS program this week, Tamale Mirundi claimed that some self-seeking NRM MPs and ministers had convinced M7 to release Shs20bn to them. The money is to move around the country to neutralize the Bobi Wine People Power effect that has created a lot of political momentum against the NRM across the country. Mirundi says the politicians had deceptively told M7 that Bobi’s People Power Movement (PPM) has a lot of clandestine underground structures of mobilizers across the country and the Shs20bn is necessary to meet those Bobi adherents & woo them to the NRM.
Mirundi says this is open day robbery of the tax payers money because to the best of his knowledge, Bobi Wine doesn’t have such structures. Neither has he attempted to create any. Mirundi says instead Bobi’s support is spontaneous because there is wide spread discontent against the NRM across the whole country. He says Bobi has just arrived on the political scene at the right time and become a rallying for all those economically hopeless & frustrated Ugandans whom President M7 refers to as hooligans & terrorists in his latest letter to Speaker Kadaga. Andrew Mwenda too has been contemptuously very outspoken painting those Bobi enthusiasts as hooligans, cult followers & cyber bullies. Mirundi says M7 hasn’t yet understood what is pulling all these crowds to Bobi or even Besigye before him and its the reason the President is about being cajoled to release the Shs20bn the MPs are demanding for. “What will your 20bn do for a man who goes to Mulago cancer institute and can’t get treatment? What can it do for someone who can’t feed his family, a family head who can’t pay school fees? What will it do for a jobless young man who has become homeless for failing to pay rent? What will it do for someone whose daughter was kidnapped or killed during the Wakiso women murders? What about people who have lost their children in Kayunga riots, Sebaggala riots or even Besigye’s walk to work? This is the anger that has been accumulating and its understandable after 32 years. This is the secret behind Bobi Wine crowds. There is no other magic and the money won’t have any effect. How much did you give people who rallied behind NRA against Obote? Just know using money when Mbabazi & now Bobi comes isn’t sustainable because you are a poor country,” Mirundi said. “If indeed its about spending Shs20bn to polish Museveni’s image, how much did his NRA spend for all the good publicity it used to get globally as it exposed the excesses of the Obote II regime? This is the favor Bobi Wine is now enjoying. If you are Museveni, just ask yourself how much was I spending to get all that good publicity against Obote? Its very simple you back then had a good message which you don’t have anymore because it becomes stale after 32 years. How much are people paid to show all that love to the Kabaka? They walk for many kilometers just to attend his functions. Does Mengo ever hire buses to bring them like NRM ferries people to attend Museveni’s rallies?” Mirundi also bashed the EC for banning processions during campaign time. “How can you ban processions? Which sort of campaign is that going to be? You want people to behave like they are going for a funeral? No fanfare. The problem is this business of ferrying people in buses. Why & how can you say Museveni had 80,000 people at his rally in Bugiri which has less than 20,000 voters? This business of ferrying people should be looked into and the EC should not allow different candidates to have their final rally on the same day because these are small towns,” Mirundi said.
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