LET US JUST ORGANISE A PRISON BREAK

[Yoweri Museveni]

LET US JUST ORGANISE A PRISON BREAK

HOW TO ORGANISE A PRISON BREAK:

BOBI WINE, KATINTI AND MUWADA: PRISONERS STRUGGLING TO BE KATTIKIRO

(You need 2 minutes to read this. If you don’t have the time, ignore please).

Omar Kalinge –Nnyago

There has been a lot of excitement since Court of Appeal annulled the Kyadondo East elections. Three opposition candidates- Kantinti, Kyagulanyi (Bobi wine) and Muwada seem to be poised for a gruelling fight. This follows quickly on the heels of the crashing defeat of Salaamu Musumba in Kamuli.

Early this week, Col. Samson Mande sent out a post: “IT IS AS HARD AS TRYING TO LIBERATE PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW THEY ARE UNDER OCCUPATION”. It was his interpretation of Harrier Tubman’s famous quote: “I FREED A THOUSAND SLAVES. I COULD HAVE FREED A THOUSAND MORE IF ONLY THEY KNEW THEY WERE SLAVES”.

Let me use my privilege as a Ugandan above 50 NOT TO MASSAGE THE EGOS OF THE INTENDING CANDIDATES, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY OF THE OPPOSITION to which I have belonged since 1986 – and shout: PARTICIPATING IN ANY ELECTION IN UGANDA ORGANISED BY THIS REGIME IS STUPID, HOPELESS, MONEY WASTING, TIME WASTING AND A DIVERSION. DIVERSION FROM THE REALTASK OF LIBERATING THE COUNTRY FROM THE 31 YEAR FAMILY RULE. YOU DON’T TREAT MALARIA WITH PANADOL. IT IS THE TEMPERATURE THAT GOES DOWN BUT YOU MUST DIE IF YOU DON’T TAKE AN ANTI MALARIAL.

If you are familiar with prison, this is a typical race of prisoners in a ward: one them trying to be “Katikkiro”. A Katikkiro is the equivalent of a “class monitor” of a prison cell or ward”. A Katikkiro can actually wield a lot of power inside the prison walls. Above all Katikkiros in a prison is the “Overall” the equivalent of “Head Prefect” in a school.

The purpose of a Katikkiro prison structure is to make the prisoners governable. It is the cardinal objective of the “Overall” to make sure than no prisoner escapes! The overall is given a lot of privileges. He is co-opted by the Manghreza- the prison warders. During our times in jail, we used to call outside using a Katikkiro’s phone or through his ‘arrangements’, for a small fee.

The equivalent of the “Overall” in Uganda today is the Leader of Opposition. In prison, some wards (and therefore their Katikkiros) are more influential than others. In my ward, we used to make our own meals and eat whatever we wanted. We could even have money on us and read newspapers. So these are the equivalents of Muntu, Mao, Akena, Lukyamuzi, Basalirwa and company.

THE FINAL STRUGGLE TO LIBERATE UGANDA WILL NOT BE WON BY PRISONERS TRYING TO BE KATIKKIROS. The task is to break out of this jail that is the current regime of relatives, friends and in laws, who are using our own money to rob, kill, imprison, and divide us.

Do you want me to start choosing between Katinti, Bobi and Muwada? I shall not.

At the end of this diversionary Katikkiro contest, Besigye (another Katikkiro) in his decision or indecision to back one of the candidates, will lose 30% if his support base in Wakiso and Kampala. Simple calculation.

Even if one of them wins, we are the same people going to call them “PIG” tomorrow.

When are we getting out of this confusion, friends? Don’t you realise we are all prisoners?

LET US JUST ORGANISE A PRISON BREAK. Do we have any revolutionaries here?

If you think you are a revolutionary, share this post over and over again. Maybe someone will remember they are in prison.