Those who have proved to be deaf enough not to hear this warning, and consequently attempted to grab the carcass from the man who hunted it for himself, have ended up regretting embarking on such a useless venture..

Such day time dreamers include Museveni’s pals. One is Prof. Gilbert Baalibaseka Bukenya. Just because he had named himself Mahogany, breathed the clean air in the corridors of power and happened to be the dad of a military graduate. Bukenya who until then was a copycat of Yoweri’s mannerism of speech, gait as well as dress, thought quite wrongly that he had grown stronger enough to grab Yoweri’s yummy carcass from its avowed owner.

Well, the jolly medic yanked off the gloves, and walked off the ring as spectators were eagerly waiting for the showdown to proceed.  Although Bukenya chickened out of the duel and proclaimed from the rooftops how Yoweri was the only man blessed with the vision of delivering the other clueless forty million Ugandans to the land of milk and honey, the owner of the carcass wasn’t amused at all by those olive branch gestures.

Yoweri quickly made up some criminal charges for his former number two in cabinet. And we all know well how Bukenya ended up changing addresses from Kakiri to Luzira prison where he chilled for quite some time. But, that was not enough reprimand for Bukenya. Museveni took the battle to Bukenya’s political base in Busiro North. That’s how the hitherto revered second citizen lost the constituency to the political rookie in Galabuzi.

The then scarcely known young man earned quite handsomely from this war of beef. Apart from the MP Job, Galabuzi joined cabinet as Bukenya started on his journey to political oblivion. We all know well the humiliation starting from losing the premiership which John Patrick Amama Mbabazi suffered when he attempted to engage Museveni in this battle of the game meat, to deserve further elaboration.

Suffice to state that Mbabazi lost the political glamour which was attracting stadiums of false cheerleaders and crumbs seekers to him upon losing the favor of Yoweri. The former so-called super minister is actually grappling with how to get rid of the political rust he has gathered over time and at the same time fighting harder to get back into the corridors of power as we speak.

The fact that Dr. Warren Kizza Besigye offered free medical services to Yoweri during their five year bush war was not worthwhile enough to spare him from the humiliation and hounding when he attempted to dip his long fingers into the cooking pot. To these ones above, you can add Gen David Sejusa formerly Tinyenfuza who, was once the all-powerful top spy, and Lt Gen Henry Tumukunde too.

Much as the duo were held in awe during their days in the sun as minders of the country’s intelligence, we all witnessed how they were shabbily handled after they were deemed to be eyeing the delicious game meat that is the preserve of Yoweri.

We are not going to waste a lot of time and space going through the hell experienced by the people from the opposition who literally committed the mistake which Mbabazi and others in NRM committed by vying for the national presidency. The bad experience they went through can be expected. They were members of the opposition who were even sleeping while the likes of Sejusa, Tumukunde and Besigye were risking their lives shooting guns in the bush to restore peace for the rest of us.

Kadaga:

We now return our focus to the subject of this article, Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga, the immediate outgoing Speaker of the Uganda Parliament. Yoweri had suspected for quite some time the woman from Busoga to be building networks in readiness to take his seat. That she was using her big budget in parliament to buy political support from MPs and their voters.

Those MPs who didn’t toe Kadaga’s line, were allegedly being denied chances to travel abroad thereby denying them an opportunity to partake of the fat per diem that comes with such foreign trips. She was also accused of offering the floor of parliament and much time to the opposition MPs, using it to dress down Museveni’s regime.

That her trick was to disparage Museveni and his administration while promoting herself as someone who fights for the causes of the common man and one more accommodative of contrary views in comparison with Museveni who doesn’t purportedly entertain opposing views. Kadaga did not help matters when in a fit of excitement revealed how she was actually interested in real power as opposed to something that looked like it.

To this end, Kadaga sneered at moves by the President to make her his deputy at the end of her ten year term as the speaker of the Uganda parliament. She noted how the vice presidency of Uganda is an amorphous thing devoid of any power. That actually the real power resides in the presidency.

She praised the office of speaker of parliament as a more powerful office than that of the vice president. She advised that such powerless offices should be reserved for people who don’t mind being white elephants so long as they get positions. Before dropping the above bombshell, Kadaga had dared Yoweri to explain why bad things were taking place under his watch.

One such thing which Kadaga required the President to explain was the invasion of parliament by the military during the divisive debate on the opening of the presidential age limit. Following the raid, Kadaga sent a strongly worded letter asking Museveni as the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, to explain why he had let loose the military in parliament.

The Ssaabalwaanyi in Museveni doesn’t want to be treated in the manner Kadaga was treating him. He was obviously pissed by Kadaga’s missive which he did not respond to, but instead cast on the dustbin to gather dirt. The other time was when Celine Nebanda, the former legislator of Butaleja, died of what was rumored to be a dose of poison.

Kadaga following the demise of Nebanda insisted on an inquiry into the cause of the death to be conducted by parliament led by her even when the President demanded the same to be conducted from outside the country. So serious the rope pulling between Kadaga and his party chairman was that the latter vowed how the former was going to do what he was insisting on doing over his dead body.

Nebanda’s death was suspicious given how she had put up a spirited fight in parliament to the extent of questioning views Museveni sought to insert in the law relating to the country’s oil. A furious Nebanda is understood to have even asked the First Lady to shut up when she (First Lady) raised to deliberate on the debate. Janet Museveni was an MP at that time.

This is presumably why the rumor mill went into overdrive with claims that her death could have been work of the government. But the court found Nebanda’s boyfriend culpable for her death. Kadaga would also awe the country and annoy the President when she chided the military for shooting dead a total of fifty four Ugandans during the just ended presidential elections.

Museveni doesn’t want to hear anyone likening his army to the past armies which he says were murderous. He can at least stomach such talk if it is directed towards the Uganda Police Force which he routinely labels a good-for-nothing force. These brave incidents and a host of others, much as they endeared Kadaga to Ugandans, consequently placed her right within the firing range of Museveni.

He waited patiently for the opportune time when he was going to pull the trigger and finally deflate the ego of the first female to hold the office of the speaker. That opportune moment arrived when Kadaga’s term of the speaker of parliament finally expired and she returned to the NRM party to seek an extension of the same.

The baptism of fire which Museveni and his lieutenants unleashed on Kadaga during the process of asking for the extension of her term, is still fresh in everyone’s memory, one need not go through it all over again. That Kadaga lost the office of speaker together with the power she was yearning for, is common knowledge by now.

But the President did not stop there. He has dealt another blow to Kadaga’s ego by appointing people far below her political stature as well as experience to be her bosses. Going forward, Kadaga’s bosses in cabinet will be Jessica Alupo and a certain Robinah Nabbanja. Alupo is Museveni’s new Vice President while Nabbanja is the new Prime Minister.

Kadaga will now be taking orders from Alupo much as she has been despising her office as a toothless one. She will also be answering to Nabbanja, the new leader of government business in parliament, since she (Kadaga) has been appointed merely as the deputy premier.

Kadaga will also have to appear before her former deputy of ten years in Jacob L’okori Oulanyah to seek approval for her new cabinet job. Oulanyah got the job of the speaker of parliament after embarrassing Kadaga in an election that was held at Kololo airstrip. Now, this is not only funny, but humiliating to Kadaga who became a legislator way back in 1988 when Alupo and Nabbanja were still in their teens.

She has managed to scale the political ladder going on to clinch the speakership of parliament. Before that, she had served in cabinet at different levels at a time when Alupo and Nabbanja were unknown in the world of politics. Kadaga’s profile is intimidating. She is a graduate of law and one of the finest legal minds around. She boasts of a first class Masters in law from the University of Zimbabwe.

She is credited for having been the first female lawyer to set up the law chambers in Uganda where the likes of Abdu Katuntu cut their teeth in legal practice before turning into one of the fine legal minds as well as acclaimed legislators. Her admirers in fact advise how the President should have appointed Kadaga to the post of attorney general as opposed to Kiryowa Kiwanuka and Kafuuzi who aren’t as experienced and grounded in law as her.

But, Kadaga herself misread the signs regarding the political tsunami that had encircled her and was moving in to drown her. For one, she insisted on running for the speaker of parliament as an independent candidate as opposed to Museveni’s advice who wanted her to leave the floor for Jacob L’akori Oulanyah.

Museveni doesn’t fancy defiance. He was not going to entertain defiance just because the author of it happened to be Kadaga. Kadaga has been around for a long time to learn and never ever forget this. As if rebelling against his boss wasn’t treasonous enough, Kadaga uttered other uncharitable statements that stirred Museveni’s ire a lot more.

She not only advised that a speaker isn’t  appointed by Museveni five years in advance, she also elucidated that MPs aren’t supposed to be herded together in the same way a cattle keeper herds his cows. She was of course talking in parables. But, even people of average knowledge know she was sending the strong message to Museveni who is the biggest cattle keeper in Uganda.

Museveni treated this as further contempt by Kadaga. Little wonder he elected to deflate her ego once and for all when the opportunity finally arrived. Failure to take action he took would have encouraged other members of NRM to engage in defiance which Kadaga engaged in knowing their boss was incapable of taking such action.

To cap it all, Kadaga will have to appear before her former deputy of ten years in Jacob L’okori Oulanyah to seek approval for her new cabinet job. Oulanyah got the job of the speaker of parliament after  embarrassing Kadaga in an election that was held at Kololo airstrip.

This, after we understand how JPAM rejected the job of Vice President that was being dangled at him, dismissing it as petty for a man of his age, political stature and experience. Mbabazi, who is naturally aloof, likens the job of Vice President to that of the errand boy of the Principal because it is kind of ceremonial.

In fact, while he served in cabinet, JPAM used to hold in contempt, the holders of that post right from the less-serious Dr. Gilbert Baalibaseka Bukenya. The CJ job fell vacant after His Lordship Justice Bart Katureebe Magunda attained the mandatory retirement at the age of 65 last Month.

Katureebe took leave of office on June 19^th 2020 having been appointed CJ on March 5^th 2015.  Deputy Chief Justice Owiny Dollo is now holding the office of CJ simultaneously with his official job. “Yes, our man is interested in the job. He has all the qualifications to be appointed the next CJ. Indeed he is overqualified for that job,” sources close to the former super Minister, brags.

Mbabazi is an advocate of the High Court and the courts above it. He served as an Attorney General in the reigning regime just like the immediate outgoing C.J Katureebe. Before that, JPAM had served as the minister of Defense, among other such big cabinet posts before being elevated to the office of Prime Minister who, is also the leader of government business in Parliament.

We have been informed that JPAM is not willing to take political offices anymore after the degradation he suffered when he antagonized his Master and the same found no problem firing him. When JPAM proved too bigheaded for the President to tame, his boss simply carried out a mini reshuffle and dropped him minutes before he hopped onto the next jet for international duty. And just like that, the man who had been christened the SUPER MINISTER, fell from elegance to a sprinkle.

“He (JPAM) wants a job where he is assured of security of tenure. A job where he will be independent of anyone or any authority,” our impeccable sources offer. The holder of office of CJ is independent of anyone and he is assured of security of tenure. He can only be fired on grounds of criminal culpability, ineptitude and grave illness, among others, but even then, following a rigorous investigation process. And therein lies the problem.

By his nature, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni loathes centers of power. He cannot therefore entrust such a big office as that of CJ with a man of independent mind lest such hardnosed Justice ends up making unsavory judgments to his detriment. Museveni has experienced firsthand, the problem of hardnosed justices such as William Tsekooko and Arthur Oder who even had the audacity to annul the big man’s poll victory.

The other one was John Bosco Katutsi who dismissed rape charges against opposition guru Dr. Warren Kiiza Kifeefe Besigye and even took time off to make uncharitable remarks against the establishment. Nonetheless, the entry of Mbabazi into the C.J fray has really toughened things for Kaguta.

JPAM was once his trusted pal and the man is believed to have reformed following the big tiff the two principals were holding in the past. Now that he is reformed and back to the fold, Museveni can only appease him with a befitting compensation in some juicy office like the one he (JPAM) is longing for.

Other contenders

On the other hand, Kaguta is desirous of recruiting Justice Richard Buteera for the job because he has been a loyal cadre ever since he was holding the office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP). This is the time that Buteera would sanction any criminal file against any opponent of Museveni no matter how crude the case was.

But we also understand that the son of Kaguta is pondering on bagging more support from the women folk by naming either Stella Amoko or any other Lady Justice of the Supreme Court, as the next CJ. Museveni became the first President in Africa to name a lady in Dr. Specioza Naigaga Wandira Kazibwe, as his vice. He has since supported the elevation of other women to many powerful positions. One of such is Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga, the current and first lady Speaker of Parliament.

Well, Museveni is an experienced political master and the last when it comes to sensitive appointments like that of the CJ. He has found himself in such tight corners before, like when MPs refused to accept his man Steven Kavuma as the Deputy CJ. Kaguta refused to sanction the appointment of Katureebe as CJ until Parliament caved in and accepted Kavuma.

This is when Museveni signed Katureebe’s appointment letter.  So the Mbabazis and others can go on dreaming about becoming the next CJ, but the son of Kaguta will ultimately have the last word on this matter.

This scandal has been carefully kept under wraps for close to a decade as this website now reveals. This has been possible because one of the alleged perpetrators of the rip-off John Patrick Amama Mbabazi (JPAM) was untouchable being a top blue-eyed lieutenant  of the president until his drop from the slot of the premier and that of the secretary general of the ruling NRM party.

It all started way back in 2006 when the National Bank of Commerce (NBC) started   to encounter statutory capital requirements problems. Such development forced Bank of Uganda, the regulator of financial institutions in Uganda, to raise the red flag on a number of occasions.

The same in turn forced NBC’s  owners notably JPAM), the current Premier Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, Pepsi Cola tycoon, Amos Nzeyi as well as Mathew  Rukikaire, the former junior finance minister in charge of privatization, to go into overdrive seeking for a core investor to resuscitate the now redundant financial institution.

Just around the same time it so happened that a wealthy Arab, Ahmed Darwish Dagher AlMahar was also looking to establish an Islamic bank in Kampala. JPAM using the political influence he wielded at that time would grab the God-sent opening by diverting the investor into buying a big stake into the ailing NBC.

To sway Darwish into to investing in NBC, the Amamas are said to have told the Arab how theirs’ was a viable, credible and well operated financial institution. This did the trick as Darwish abandoned his previous plan of opening up an Islamic bank in town.

Following the verbal talks, Darwish and the Amamas decided to put pen to paper. We came across the agreement they signed. It was drafted on June 1^st 2008. It names Amama and Nzeyi as the vendors of 76{0945c2a372ac1e8bbfe7cc3e10f9b82eb0b8ae872b07368d754f0396b6ef2afe} of what was indicated to be their issued and paid up shares in NBC while Darwish who was trading as International Investment House and Emirates Africa Link for Strategic Alliance LLC is named as the purchaser of the shares. Rukikaire represented NBC in his capacity as the chairman of that bank.

According to the agreement, Darwish was to pay USD9, 445,714 for 48.702519{0945c2a372ac1e8bbfe7cc3e10f9b82eb0b8ae872b07368d754f0396b6ef2afe} worth of the shares that the Amamas purportedly contracted to sell to him. Of that, the Arab paid USD870, 000 on the signing of the document. He was required to clear the balance before or not later than June 30, 2008.

While he claims to have paid USD6, 053,027 of the agreed purchase price already, he adds that the Amamas have since failed to issue a single share certificate to him. The vendors have since changed and are actually only willing to give him less than half of the shares they contracted to sell him.

The Arab has taken to the courts of law to make the vendors make good on the contract or return the dollars they took from him with interest as well as damages for failure to live up to what they undertook to do under the agreement. Keep your eyes glued on this website for more shocking details.