By Mulengera Reporters
Mzee John Nagenda, the chief long serving Museveni advisor on media at State House, has called on the President to “look himself in the mirror” and see how shameful it is to direct the brutalization of a boy “who was only 4 years in 1986 when the current government came to power with such thunderous promise.”
This is in reference to Bobi Wine Kyagulanyi Sentamu on whose containment a signifcant amount of State resources has lately been directed.
Saying he can’t continue being a praise singer even when his dear President is goofing, Nagenda says young women like IHK’s 26 year old Dr. Catherine Agaba woudn’t be innocently losing their lives if Police had been left to do its basic work of protecting citizens “instead of stalking singer Bobi Wine.”
Using his popular Saturday Vision column, Nagenda loudly asks “What crime has he committed? The citizenry have a right to know.”
Nagenda adds that (although he has never listened to any of his songs) Mr. Wine is pressumably a good singer and MP who deserves to be treated with decoram and some respect.
“The opposite is the case and as I write, he seems to be involuntarily kept at home and his concerts arbitrarily cancelled. Does this not amount to an illegality by government? Do we seriously need to be known as such? Mr. President how are we to look at our faces in the mirror today?” Nagenda writes in his unusually very hard-hitting missive.
He says being politically naive and a novice at leadership with no chance of being elected President in 2021 doesn’t justify the savagery treatment security forces have directed at Mr. Wine so far.
He warns that himself and other right-thinking members of the NRM that have always consistently elected the President and NRM “might (if Bobi harrassment doesn’t stop) hang our heads in shame if we fall from our expected high expectations.”
Quoting his deceased parents, 81 year old Nagenda teasingly reminds Mr. Museveni thus “God’s eye is always on you.” He also dedicates to him jazz singer Louis Armstrong’s lyrics of 50 years ago specifically picking out the line “Remember who you are and whom you represent. The eyes of the world are watching you.”
But in the same missive, Nagenda also exposes his lack of guts to stick to his principles when he declares readiness to elect President Museveni again in 2021 yet he has been very outspoken in opposing lifting of term limits on grounds that at 75, Museveni will have done his part and must call it a day in 2021 and retire in peace.
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