By Aggrey Baba
When a house is burning, you don’t tell the children to run away but you put out the fire. This explains how National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi has framed his attack on Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja, accusing her of telling oppressed Ugandans to leave their own country.
Nabbanja, while appearing on NTV on Thursday, said opposition members who feel suppressed under Museveni’s government are free to leave the country, a statement which didn’t sit well for the NUP leader.
Kyagulanyi, in a strongly worded message on X this afternoon, said the remarks showed the contempt with which the country’s leaders treat citizens, likening the thinking to that of dictators who imagine they are doing the people a favour by governing them.
The self claimed ghetto gladiator said the prime minister’s words were an insult to Ugandans who, according to him, have suffered injustice and political persecution, bringing to life another proverb, that you don’t chase the rightful owner from his land because of a quarrel while stressing that Uganda belongs to all its citizens and no one has the authority to tell others to leave their homeland because of political differences.
Kyagulanyi added that the Museveni’s government will one day fall, but Ugandans will remain, and that no regime has the right to decide who should stay in or leave the country.
The exchange adds to the deepening political rift between the NRM and the opposition, which continues to accuse the government of shrinking political freedoms and space for dissent. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
