President Yoweri Museveni has maintained as “unacceptable” the impunity exuded by Minister Mwesigwa Rukutana last Saturday.
Rukutana has Tuesday been remanded to Kitalya mini-maximum prison, 300kms away from his home Ntungamo District until September 15 when Court will hear his bail application.
But Museveni says the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) should challenge Rukutana’s bail application since there is enough evidence incriminating him.
“In the case of the Rukutanas, the Police did not give Police bond because, according to the Police, the evidence is clear and they should go for trial. I hope the DPP will also oppose bail. The image of impunity is not acceptable,” Museveni said in his new letter.
Below is full letter:
Countrymen, Countrywomen and, especially, the Bazzukulu.
I am still reading the responses to my communication of
yesterday on the NRM Primaries. I will reply in detail later.
However, I want, for now, to repeat a few points. By going
back to lining behind candidates, the NRM laid a good trap
for the cheaters (the riggers). The voting is done and
concluded in each village and the scores are witnessed by
hundreds of People. It is shallow criminality to think that
you can enter false numbers on a piece of paper known as
DR form and that that will give you the flag. You will end in
prison for forgery and subversion instead of Parliament. An
audit of village by village will expose you.
The villages have not shifted. They are still there. Even if
you bribe the agents of the victim candidate to tell lies, the
People who voted are there. They will bring out the facts.
The lining up method was used until the 1995 Constitution.
It had stopped rigging that time. Rigging came back with the
secret ballot that covered most of the loopholes except the
corruption of the election officials and the low vigilance of
the population. With the national elections, these two
loopholes will be covered by the digitally read fingerprinting
verification machines.
The Party cannot afford those machines. Hence, our answer
is lining and at village- level. With the Confident Hon.
Rukutana and others, the skepticism of some responders
such as Kagaba, pmneyponsi, Joel, Arthur Lukyamuzi and
others that they suspect that the NRM will cover them up, it is because these young People do not know the history of the
NRM/ NRA and how it brought peace to Uganda for the first
time in 500 years.
The Bazzukulu have grown up in total peace and freedom
and until COVID-19 came in to suppress their free lives of
ebikeesa (transnights), ebimansulo (naked shows), games,
music concerts etc., they were living uninhibited lifestyles.
The freedom was brought about by the firmness and proPeople position of the NRM against wrong-doers. That is
why the Bazzukulu, rightly, see the few actions of mistake
making LDUs as terrible. In the past, dead bodies floating on
the River Nile or dumped in Namanve were non- events. You
can witness some of those pictures.
Never Joke with NRM.
In the case of the Rukutanas, the Police did not give Police
bond because, according to the Police, the evidence is clear
and they should go for trial. I hope the DPP will also oppose
bail. The image of impunity is not acceptable.