By Mulengera Reporters
Tamale Mirundi has this Saturday morning furiously responded to attacks directed at him by Gen Henry Tumukunde who he says can’t even score 5000 votes against President Museveni in 2021. Speaking on Pearl FM this Saturday morning, Mirundi downplayed the Tumukunde challenge by arguing that his bid will fail unseating President Museveni just like Amama Mbabazi and Kizza Besigye have failed before.
Mirundi says that going to NBS TV to complain that it’s unfair for his military escorts to be removed (being a Gen he says he is legally entitled) yet Museveni’s grandchildren have five body guards each made Tumukunde seem to be emotionally unprepared for the extreme torment that awaits him. That failure to conceal his emotional devastation,
Mirundi said, can only embolden Museveni to engage in more such tactics to emotionally break Gen Tumukunde.
“I actually still have my escorts and I think I can give one of them to Gen Tumukunde since he seems to be very scared of living without bodyguards. If you talk tough and say you are very powerful, how come you can’t do anything to forcefully have them back after your bodyguards are removed?” argued Mirundi vowing to do all he can to
ensure Museveni bounces back in 2021. Mirundi says even when Museveni may not be an angel, Tumukunde has no moral authority to expose his excesses because “he was involved in doing all sorts of things including dishing out money against the opposition groups he is now courting.”
CONTEXT
The background to this Mirundi rant is that during his Thursday TV appearance, Tumukunde bashed Mirundi arguing that in all his media talk shows he symbolizes nothing but the existence of “payroll party” whose members are remunerated for uttering things that are aimed at demoralizing Ugandans and making them hopeless while stressing Museveni’s political invincibility (one totally incapable of being defeated).
Dismissing Mirundi as a money-minded old man, Tumukunde went as far as claiming he has ever shared his facilitation money with Mirundi. “Okay even in my case I have ever given him money and at least let him be fair and bring it back,” Tumukunde said during one of his TV shows on Thursday. He also disputed the depth of Mirundi’s reach and
connections inside the corridors of power.
“He keeps coming here to speak his little diversionary things about the First Lady, Nalweyiso and Nakyobe. But how much does he know about these people? He is of course able to keep doing that every morning on your Morning Breeze here because you have accepted to have that sort of literature,” a tough-talking Tumukunde told Simon Njala Kaggwa whom he repeatedly implored to use the leverage at his disposal to “re-direct debate.” All in all, Tumukunde maintains there is a large group of Musevenists who the state maintains on monthly pay solely to keep discouraging the population about the possibility of regime change in Uganda as long as Museveni remains alive.
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