Just yesterday, news of a planted bomb near a church in Kampala took over social media in Uganda. Ugandans laughed it off, saying that it was all drama staged by despot Museveni and his cronies to find a way of blaming and cracking down on the opposition.

For the past few days, Bobi Wine’s political organization NUP, has been holding massive public rallies in the central and western parts of the country. The big crowds of supporters chanting Bobi Wine’s name as “President” definitely did not go well with despot Museveni and his cabal of oppressors. In Kabale district, the police even started blocking roads to prevent politicians and supporters from moving.

What is laughable in all this Katemba (drama) by criminal despot Museveni is the fact that members of the public are fully aware of all his evil techniques of repression, and they all laugh at him, more like to say, “this senile dictator only relies on the power of the gun to make people silent, but he is a global laughing stock.”

The planting of bombs, just like other terrorism techniques that criminal despot Museveni uses when he wants to get rid of opposition voices, is his usual style. The same thing happened in Arua in 2018 when Bobi Wine, in his campaigns there, was accused of “having firearms in his hotel room.” He was then arrested and subjected to a sham “trial.”

The story of machete-wielding men (Bijambiya) in Masaka in 2021, which claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent Ugandans, resonates well with the planting of a bomb in Kampala yesterday. We all remember how, instead of arresting real culprits, the criminal regime went after innocent people like Muhammad Ssegirinya and Allan Ssewanyana – opposition Members of Parliament.

As we have always said, criminal despot Museveni thrives on violence, chaos, and terror. Even when people are at peace, he finds a way of wreaking havoc, sowing divisions amongst them, as a ruse to get rid of the people he deems enemies, mostly opposition politicians and their supporters.

I am just a former NRA Kadogo.