By Mulengera Reporters
Abed Bwanika has vowed to camp in Kampala in 2026 to de-campaign non-Baganda Kyagulanyi boys who have chosen to stand in Buganda as opposed to going back to their home regions and deepen the strugle from there.
Bwanika says that David L Rubonyoya, Alex Waisswa Mufumbiro, Nubian Li and Benjamin Katana have no business respectively standing for Kampala Central MP Seat, Nakawa East, Nakawa Mayorship and Entebbe Municipality when their respective home areas (Ankole, West Nile & Busoga) remain unliberated with no strong opposition candidates to field.
In this news feature, Mulengera News reflects on leading opposition actors who had to start and epi-center their initial politics in Kampala simply because there is no way they were going to ever make it if they returned and stood in their home regions, the way Bwanika is requiring the 4 above referenced Kyagulanyi boys:
Ibrahim Kasozi: The former Makindye East MP hails from Mityana which is an NRM stronghold where he stood no chance whatsoever. It had to be Makindye East which had been liberated by the likes of Sebaana Kizito, Benedict Mutyaba and Mike Mabikke years earlier.
Doreen Nyanjura: The Deputy Lord Mayor represents Makerere University as Lord Councilor where she risks being ousted by Shamim Nambasa in 2026. Nambasa is strategically joining the Makerere law school to increase her suitability and qualification for the Seat.
Nyanjura hails from NRM-dominated Kyenjojo district where she stood no chance as of 2016 when she first became Lord Councilor. To this day, she can’t win in Kyenjojo unless she defects to NRM like Deputy AG Jackson Kafuzi did.
Semujju Nganda: The Kira MP hails from NRM-dominated Lwengo district where he stood no chance as of 2011 when he first became MP. Even today, Nganda would strugle to defeat an NRM candidate in his native Bukoto County in Lwengo.
Blasio Zambali Mukasa: He disguises to be a journalist but an actual sense, he is an anti-regime activist. The Betty Nambooze-instigated Zambali hails from NRM-dominated Nakaseke where he can’t win, which is why he is salivating at the already liberated Nansana Municipality.
Moses Kasibante: He hails from Butambala where he stood in 2006 and was badly floored by Faizal Kikulukunyu because the NRM was still unassailable there as of that time. Kasibante had to switch to Rubaga North to be able to win and get himself a job as first time MP in 2011.
Even Florence Namayanja began from Kampala as Deputy Mayor and KCC councilor under Seya. It was from this that she accumulated enough political capital to be able to go and defeat Museveni’s Minister Alintuma Nsambu in 2011.
Mohammed Segirinya: He hailed from Kaddugala in Masaka but his starting point had to be Kawempe North Division in Kampala because his native Kaddugala or Masaka was harder as of that time, 2016, when he first became KCCA Lord Councilor.
Hussein Kyanjo: He is now deceased and was a celebrated orator but good as he was, Kyanjo had to grab Makindye West MP Seat in 2006 (where he defeated Mukasa Mbidde who was reluctant to stand in his Kalungu birth place) because his native Bukomansimbi would have been an impossibility as of that time. NRM was still very strong there.
Mike Kabaziguruka: He hails from Kigezi like his mentor Dr. Kizza Besigye but he experimented his elective politics in Kampala’s Nakawa Division from as early as 2011 but lost to Minister Fred Ruhindi who he eventually floored in 2016. If he stood in NRM-dominated Western Uganda merely because its home, Kabaziguruka wouldn’t have succeeded becoming an MP up to this day.
Joel Ssenyonyi: The current LoP hails from Nakasongora which remains an NRM stronghold. In fact, he would have lost straight if he had stood there on his first attempt in 2021 as opposed to Nakawa West.
It’s probable that Bwanika is fallaciously angry at Katana, Rubongoya, Mufumbiro plus Nubian Li and being subjective against them (being a hater of Kyagulanyi) largely because they aren’t Baganda; forgeting that being the capital city, Kampala is Uganda’s most cosmopolitan composition and therefore ought to be for Ugandans from all tribes and not just Baganda. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
