By Mulengera Reporters
Until Good Friday when Zigoti Town Council Councilor Kiti Kyamuwogo (who was also a University leacturer and Buganda Kingdom civil servant) died of heart-related complications, NUP had 14 out of the 36 Councillors making up Mityana LC5 Council. One of these NUP Councillors was Saul Nyakana Kalwanga who is a younger brother to Busujju County MP David Lukyamuzi Kalwanga. They come from same mother and father. David Kalwanga considers himself to be a big man in NUP and a Bobi Wine stalwart.
Nyakana represents Butayunjwa Sub County on the Mityana LC5 Council and had initially been appointed by LC5 Chairman Patrick Mugisha (of NUP Party) to serve as the Executive Secretary or Minister in charge of Gender & Social Affairs. However, saying that NUP wasn’t the saviour he thought it was, Nyakana not very long ago turned round and declared his membership and loyalty to Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU).
He currently campaigns for Gen Museveni’s 2026 reelection openly which is why Patrick Mugisha has since ousted and fired him from being one of his Ministers at Mityana LC5 Executive Council. Councillor Nyakana, who denied his elder brother Kalwanga’s advice to resist the NRM groceries, is currently using Baba TV and other Kampala-based media platforms to popularise Gen Museveni as he organises and mobilizes for the 28th April Mityana concert bubbed “Museveni Awooma.”
In Kampala, the very street wise Saul Nyakana Kalwanga resides in Namasuba where he openly markets Gen Museveni these days while demonizing Bobi Wine and his NUP party which he trashes at every opportunity. He has vowed to openly attend NRM retreats at Kyankwanzi while mobilizing and encouraging fellow Mityana Councillors to do the same too. He says there is nothing Bobi Wine and his NUP foot soldiers can do to him.
He deceptively keeps saying that Kyagulanyi shouldn’t cow anyone anymore because he has become a spent force and the political electricity he possessed in 2021 has since deserted him and he is now deflated like never before.
Quite understandably, Saul Kalwanga Nyakana’s defection has created huge PR problems and complicated the 2026 3rd term reelection for his elder brother David Lukyamuzi Kalwanga in Busujju, prompting veteran Kampala lawyer Joseph Luzige (also former Mityana LC5 Chairman) to consider running for the Busujju MP Seat come 2026 when he will be carrying the NRM flag.
Even inside NUP, there are Busujju-based opportunists who have since come up demanding to carry the Kavule party flag instead of David Kalwanga whose total commitment to the anti-Museveni struggle is now being doubted because of his younger brother Saul Nyakana Kalwanga’s huge u-turn in favor of the ruling NRM. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [whatsapp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).