Ugandans from all walk walk of life on Tuesday launched a scathing cyber attack on Rwanda state owned newspaper for what they termed as propagating “yellow journalism and foolish propaganda” against their President, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
Publishers of The New Time Rwanda, for some good days have opened a fake news campaign against Uganda as an avenue to play victim of the ongoing impasse between the two East African Landlocked nations.
The conflict which had brewed for sometime erupted last month resulting into Gatuna border post closure by Rwandan authorities.
The blockade denying Ugandan goods into Rwanda later was followed by ‘reckless’ and ‘misguided’ verbal artilleries unleashed by Kigali’s envoys.
Their baseless accusations were that Uganda was supporting, hosting and laying a soft ground for rebels to attack Kigali.
With their leader Paul Kagame joining a bandwagon to openly issues stinging rebukes against Uganda, his counterpart Yoweri Museveni gave them a deaf ear and preferred not to discuss the matters in the media even when he was provoked by journalists on several occasions.
As a kingpin in diplomacy, Museveni opted to address his issues in a letter sent to Kagame on March 1 and later published by Ugandan newspaper- The New Vision.
Whereas all the claims raised by Kigali were responded to in the letter, Museveni had his own reservations.
He wondered why Kagame couldn’t reply his October 2018 letter, why Rwanda agents were operating to distablise Uganda and some elements in Kigali involved in elimination of citizens.
The New Times on Spot
After the letter was published, Kigali’s leading propaganda machinery The New Times described the letter as “leaked” and also published a Ugandan passport allegedly belonging to Charlotte Mukankusi a member of RNC, a rebel outfit seeking to topple Kagame.
However, Ugandans were quick to discredit New Time’s publication of the passport as forgery and also questioning its professionalism after referring to Museveni’s letter as leaked.
Running under a headline, “After denials, Uganda’s President Museveni admits to hosting Rwandan dissidents” this story has prompted Ugandans to take to social media to expose lies and fabrications.
Below are some of the unedited comments of Ugandans who responded to New Time on its official Facebook Page.
Hickman Evans: kagamism at work. so everyone in rwanda must like kagame? if not you die,run to exile be called fugitives and dissidents? they are so many and strong out there. kagame must be so worried. rwanda existed long before kagame. i believe those rwandese out there must fight by all means to get back to there beloved homeland.
Joel N David: I have never seen a new paper reporting and giving opinions at the same time. This is disgusting.
Emanuel Hogwal: Well, Kagame, RDF and Rpf ruling class were once dissidents in Uganda. Kagame needs to address the root cause to some of these things, otherwise, the country is going to have more & more dissidents.
Kaly Rashid Sinan: OK, the president of Uganda did “admit” about meeting the dissidents… Now, tell us when the president of Rwanda will also come out to “admit” the stories his Ugandan counterpart is talking about…
Sammie Kay II: But the letter was in a government daily just yesterday, how was it then leaked?
One of the challenges of the beautiful country Rwanda is censorship, they elevated their president into a demi Gods. They deliberately feed their citizens on crap a reason they are at war in their minds with Uganda.
Willis Namara Kabuye: Dont you as a national newspaper have anything else to talk about rather than Museveni???
Kasubo Sarah: Don’t think that we are all stupid to believe in this foolish propaganda of yours. We are wise enough please.
Apollo Kazibwe: New Times you are so fake and you should be ashamed of your unprofessionalism. Come to talk of yellow-page-journalism. Your DMI agents feeding you with such crappy stories should go back and do more research about the Ugandan passport document. It has the validity of five years yet the one that you purport M7 to gave issued Mukankusi is of a five year duration. That alone brings to question your plausibility and truthfulness. You are just spewing nothing but hate. I pity the Rwandans whom you feed this daily dose of sh&t that your misconstrue as “news”.
Edgar Kiiza: The President of Uganda caused the publication of that letter in the Government owned newspaper the NewVision. It is absurd for you to allege that it was leaked. There’s a much Free Press in Uganda certainly better than your autocratic regime.
