Andrew M. Mwenda
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The president & First Lady are such a wonderful couple & truly should be an inspiration for other couples. He is the president and most important man in Rwanda but still finds time to spend with his family and u can see they are comfortable and reflexed around each other. Fifi
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Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile, this great architect of Uganda’s economic recovery, this titan of our banking industry, this intelligent, magnanimous and generous soul, this friend of all and enemy of no one, rested this morning at 5.30am. RIP my friend! You have been a true giant!
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I am driving with
@mkainerugaba
in his car and we are stuck in traffic. Yet I see wannabes driving with loud sirens, intimidating people on the road and even violating traffic rules by driving on the right side of the duo carriage way. A disciplined soldier, MK leads by example.
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These siamese twins where delivered at Mulago Hospital, were successfully separated in surgery. But their home back in Hoima is that poor hut which is not safe for their survival. We are raising money to build a new home for them, interested parties can contact me here!
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The
#COVID19
crisis in Tanzania is now critical! Zambia has closed its border with Tanzania! A well placed source in Dar es Salam claims they have 16,467 cases tested positive, 1,293 dead and only 118 recoveries! 40 people are dying of covid19 daily! Thank you Magufuli!
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Listen to
@ivankagame
, son of president
@PaulKagame
of Rwanda talk about the future of Africa through entrepreneurship! Good stuff!
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This morning, the Col Gen and The General
@mkainerugaba
flew to Kapeka for a two day conference with another general, SS. Details of the deliberations are all classified! Merry Xmas to all of well wishers!
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My grandson
@HEBobiwine
this is to wish you a very happy 39th birthday. Even though you rigged me out of the NUP presidency and for party candidate for president, which led us to lose to
@KagutaMuseveni
, I am not bitter. May the spirits of our ancestors bless you abundantly.
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This morning
@mkainerugaba
and I held a conference in Munyonyo with
@PaulKagame
to thank him for always leading the way, being ready to reach out and find solutions to our problems. His visit to Uganda to attend MK’s 48th BD is a act without precedent! We love and honor you, PK!
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This kid is talented! I love this video, watch it. If u don’t have data, send me your mobile money number I will send you some cash! And whoever knows this kid should ask him to come see me! I will ride him on a boda to a kafunda and buy him beer in violation of
#Covid_19
rules!
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I am at Kigali airport. In the last 30 minutes they have announced Rwandair flights to Lagos, Cotonou, Libreville, Accra, Nairobi, Entebbe, Cape Town, Lusaka, Bujumbura and Juba. Rwandair is going to become a regional giant. In 10 years people will be asking how it happened!
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I have talked to the director of CID who has agreed to open a case to find out the person who allegedly raped singer Sheeba Kalungi. Police are going to call her and ask her to reveal the offender. Sheeba is being disingenuous in hiding the true rapist as social media lynch me.
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With such images and video scenes of widespread violence and death on social media, we MUST ask why
@KagutaMuseveni
organizes these elections at all. Have we adopted a system of selecting leaders that is injurious to our stability? M7 went to the bush alleging electoral fraud!
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I have just been informed that
@HEBobiwine
was selected “unopposed” as NUP presidential flag bearer! NUP knew that I had picked forms which I was filling and did not inform me of the “deadline”! This is a rigged and anti democratic process! I am going to challenge it!
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Today I am traveling by a Kiira bus from Kampala to Fort Portal, the product of Uganda’s engineering built at our own Nakasongola. There are many haters to do not appreciate this dream but it is one thing I feel Uganda should throw her weight into. And we may succeed!
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#COVID19
The situation in Tanzania is getting critical! Reports say hospitals are flooded, people are dying and being buried at night! People have sent me videos of this but I cannot share them coz Magufuli traces videos to source! News media banned from telling the story!
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Yesterday, the colonel general held yet another conference with two other generals -
@mkainerugaba
and Salim Saleh at Kapeka (yes, at Kapeka) to discuss matters of national interest!
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This afternoon, police without firing a shot or tear gas, arrested
@HEBobiwine
hooligans who had gone to Kalangala to cause mayhem. BW was flown on a helicopter to Kololo airstrip and escorted to his residence without incident. Thank you Paul Lokech, police is working well now!
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America has just elected a 78 years old man who was senator for 36 years, Vice President for 8, a total of 44 years in power! Uganda will next year elect a man who is 76 years old and has been president for 35 years. What do u think of this comparison? Let me hear your say!
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I want to wish a happy birthday to Dr Kizza Besigye, a giant of our politics, a man of great courage and impeccable integrity, a tenacious warrior for his beliefs. Colonel, even though I disagree with many of your views, I admire your character. May you live to be 110 like me
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This is to inform our family, friends and in laws that my auntie, Princess Damali Adyeri Komukyeeya, has just passed away due to
#COVID19
. She was in good health last night. This morning she got breathing difficulties, was taken to hospital but there was no oxygen. So she died!
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My grand children
@mkainerugaba
and
@HEBobiwine
meeting the good old days. As the Old Man of the Clan, I want to organize another conference like this where we can discuss the 2026 election and how to move this country forward! Do u read me??
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I have talked to
@mkainerugaba
who has promised to call Sheeba and offer her all the protection she needs in case she is afraid that revealing the person who raped her would be risky. The singer now has no excuse to fear to collaborate with police to arrest this rapist!
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Former Guinea President, Alpha Conde, began his retirement yesterday. He is seen in this photo relaxing in a sofa after announcing his retirement. No shoes, loose shirt and enjoying his time with his body guards. Other African leaders need to follow his example😜😜😜😜
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Yesterday I met MP Zaake and I can confirm he was badly beaten. I do not see how such a beating could have been a result of self defense by soldiers who we went to arrest him. Government should stop burying its head in the sand claiming he is faking his pain. The beating was real
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Clearly Tanzania has become an exporter of
#COVID19
to the region! For the last 14 days no one inside Uganda has tested positive of covid. All new cases are been truck drivers from Tanzania! The same applies to Rwanda! Let us all thank President Magufuli for his wisdom!
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Tonight
@KagutaMuseveni
claimed boda bodas are not an effective means of public transport! Who decides this: the president or commuters? Ugandan commuters have consistently voted with their wallets - for boda bodas as the most convenient and effective means of public transport!
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Our elected representatives allocated themselves Shs 200 billion for luxury cars but only Shs 50 billion for food relief to their poor voters suffering from Covid restrictions. It makes me wonder whether democratic accountability is not an illusion in a poor peasant society.
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Salim Saleh’s quiet revolution at Kapeeka industrial park is Uganda’s future as a manufacturing nation. Floor tiles, bathroom ware (cisterns, toilet seats, sinks, bathtubs, etc) are being produced there, plus plates, teapots, cups: 95% of the raw material is locally sourced
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Yesterday I visited my son and friend Sudhir Ruparelia at his palatial home in Kololo where he has been holed up for two months coz of
#covid19
! I found he has grown a beard that makes him look like a professor, not a property mogul! No social distancing, he needed some covid😜
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I love these two maps. In grey are the countries which have NOT imposed sanctions on Russia. The next picture says it all about the so called “international community.” This cultural hubris is so engrained in the western psyche, they don’t even see it!
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The arrest of Joseph Kabuleta for “offending the president” is archaic, intolerable and unacceptable! Ugandans have every right to offend the president. They hire him to serve them. They should be free to express their anger at how he is running the country justifiably or not!
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The Old Man of the Clan and The Old Man with a Hat held a conference at state house Entebbe this afternoon! Both old men agreed to respect social distancing and keep masks on! The nation gets better when elders meet to discuss matters of national importance!
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I love my grand daughter Miria Matembe… she is real! And raw!
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BREAKING NEWS: LRA leader, Joseph Kony, has written to
@KagutaMuseveni
asking him to reopen peace talks with the defunct rebel group. Kony even lists names of the team President Museveni should send to negotiate with him, among them deputy speaker of parliament, Jacob Oulanyah!
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This is the crowd
@AmamaMbabazi
got when he campaigned in Arua in 2015! So
@HEBobiwine
be careful when making projections and/or conclusions of your potential votes based on huge crowds! They can be quite misleading. What is decisive ultimately is infrastructure on the ground!
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This is the new model of a sedan built by Kiira Motors, Uganda’s unsung motor company that will be producing locally made cars. At 2pm tomorrow I will be taking it for road testing on the Entebbe expressway! Come one come all and witness this Uganda’s engineering feat!
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Today I learnt of a very successful cassava farmer in Lira with more than Shs 300m on his bank account but who still lives in a grass thatched hut, with rammed earth floor and mud walls. So next time you see someone living in such conditions, don’t conclude they are poor!
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In a debate on
@nbstv
in 2018,
@HEBobiwine
said if there was chaos in Uganda, I would be the first to run abroad. Last night he evacuated his family to USA leaving millions of his supporters in the very chaos he is plotting with his hooligans! My family and I are staying here!
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We have always thot bodas worsen traffic! Now they are absent from Kla and traffic jams are ten times worse. Clearly bodas reduce congestion as people park cars and move around on bodas! Today everyone who has to go anywhere has to do using a car hence chronic jams paralyzing Kla
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Uganda’s own designed and made car by Kiira Motors has just arrived at Speke Apartments along Wampewo Avenue. We are taking it on a road test in a few minutes. Elegant in looks, it drives smoothly and is evidence of Ugandan genius in innovation and engineering!
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#COVID19
This morning I woke up with a cough, flu and temperature! I quarantined myself at home and called ministry of health. They sent a team who tested me for the corona virus. This evening results returned and I am negative. Please do the test if u feel the symptoms!
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CEC has recommended Jacob Oulanyah for speaker. Some MPs are urging Rebecca Kadaga to defy CEC and run as an independent. That is political suicide coz she has no chance. My advice to Kadaga: officially and urgently pull out of the race tonight and you will be made Vice President
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This afternoon, i visited my friend, brother (don’t ask how), comrade (he is still a communist) and nephew (according to social media), Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Keinerugaba, on the eve of his 46th birthday! Once again HBD! May you live to exceed my current age of 107 years!
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Last night police arrested and detained NBS news anchor,
@SamsonKasumba
allegedly for sedition! This law was thrown out by the constitutional court under my petition in 2009! But why act this dictatorially! Please
@PoliceUg
stop acting paranoid and urgently release Samson
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If I may ask the chief justice with all due respect: If as an Ugandan I go to Acholi region and buy or lease or rent land from an Acholi clan or family to rear my cows, what is wrong with that? He, like many of us, owns a house in Kampala. Did he grab Baganda land?
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I am shocked Ugandan journalists are angry at being terrorized by security forces alongside other citizens as if they are a special category entitled to an exemption. This is a story of the state use of arbitrary violence against citizens, journalists only being a part!
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Against all odds, Sudhir has achieved the impossible: in just one year, he has built and is completing a 3,800 seater convention center at Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort, complete with 16 breakout rooms attached to another 16 in the old structures! He deserves this big tight hug!
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Meet Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, new leader of Afghanistan. Trained by USA to fight USSR as mujahideen in 1980s; fights USA as Taliban in 2000s. 2010, arrested, taken to Guantanamo prison. Released, rejoins Taliban 2018. Today meets CIA director as Afghan leader. What a career!
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Watching the UN Secretary General condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine only reminds me of how this institution is an arm of US foreign policy. Where was the UN to condemn the US invasion of Iraq, the bombing of Serbia, Libya, etc.? The Russians are good students of US behavior
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Our next president
@HEBobiwine
does his thing! Who says we still need old men discussing culture and ideology. We need young celebrities high on weed, rapping the evenings away and posing on expensive cars! These are the people who will make every Ugandan rich and happy!
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So for the many Ugandans on social media who have always denounced the healthcare system as filled with corruption and incompetence, what explains success at containing
#COVID19
? I think is it because we always obsess with our weaknesses and ignore our strength!
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Why do Ugandan security agencies use methods last employed by Idi Amin’s goons to arrest people? Couldn’t they have invited Lawrance Muganga, the vice chancellor of Victoria University, to police for questioning and then detain him? What is so hard with acting civilized?
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Jacob Oulanyah’s son Andrew has just won the by election for Omoro, to succeed his father. Oulanyah never planned this! Museveni doesn’t have to plan for
@mkainerugaba
to succeed him. The hand of destiny, the desire for the familiar, can just create such a situation
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On this day 29 years ago, a genocide against the Tutsi began leaving one million dead. Many still shade crocodile tears over this event even when their actions and friendships undermine reconciliation in that country. Here
@PaulKagame
gives a moving testimony of his experience
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I congratulate my friend, brother, comrade, nephew (according to social media)
@mkainerugaba
for his well deserved promotion to general. He has served our country with dedication and distinction and he deserves much more than it has given him so far! The struggle continues!
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The campaigns for 2021 are is high gear! President Yoweri Museveni today made a stop on his way to Makindye East to play football with a group of local kids. We hope he also allows
@HEBobiwine
to hold such concerts on the streets. That would add to an equal playing field!
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Recently our opposition spent an entire week in media discussing me wearing a UPDF uniform; this week they took it to parliament. It may be flattering to my ego to be given such national profile but I find it strange that for all our vital issues, the opposition choose this👇🏾
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Dear naysayers, what do you to say about this 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Sebei event?
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NRM had endorsed Anita Among, a former FDC politician, as its candidate for speaker. Jacob Oulanyah was UPC, joined NRM and rose to the top. While the opposition fights everyone who disagrees with them, NRM embraces its opponents and gives them top posts!
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This is one of the most powerful quotes an African leader has made: mindset, mindset, mindset! Our marriage to external dependence is like a plague! The day we see our potential, have the willingness of tap it and the patience to nurture it, we shall be unstopable!!!
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This morning, my friend and comrade, Maj. Gen. Paul Lokech, who has also been deputy Inspector General of Police, died suddenly and unexpectedly of a blood clot. I last talked to Lokech on Thursday at 8pm and he was very fine. Uganda has lost a true giant of a general!
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Rebecca Kadaga must be extremely naive or ignorant to believe that she can openly defy Museveni and NRM and still win. If she won, she would have set the stage of a deadly political struggle, coz the “system” cannot allow her victory to stand! Often it’s prudent to let go.
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The portrait
@KagutaMuseveni
should use in his head to head campaign to win the youths away from
@HEBobiwine
! This hairstyle brings him closer to the youths who see him as outdated! 🙇🏽♂️😒😊😃🙈
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My cousin, my son, my best friend, my playmate, my advisor, my confidant - my everything, Sabastian Noah Kakiiza Adyeri Rubani, had just died in a motor accident. Why does death strike a nice soul like him at his tender age??? How does one cope with a loss so devastating?
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Happy birthday Gen Salim Saleh, aka, Caleb Akandwanaho, a man of many parts: a general, a philosopher, now a policy wonk, and recently a musician😜😜. May you live long and longer!
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President Paul Kagame has given a moving speech that has left everyone here spellbound. It is difficult for me to fully express its depth and meaning and its fullness. Briefly: Africans should value African lives first before expecting others to value us as much. Inspiring!
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President Paul Kagame will host Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba for his 49th birthday this April, 24th. Invited guests from Uganda have been informed.
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BREAKING NEWS: ISO Director General Kaka Bagyenda has been fired forthwith. This follows after President
@KagutaMuseveni
sent SFC to open his safe houses and release the victims of his torture leading to a shootout! Kaka has also been fabricating intelligence, polluting the air
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The state of election campaigns in Uganda!! The people versus the state.
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Bobi Wine with a $1,300 Louis Vuitton bag ready to board KLM’s business class to Uganda to fight for the poor. If Museveni has stifled Ugandans from prospering, how did Bobi Wine make so much money from his talent to live in a castle, drive expensive cars and carry luxury bags?
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Kabila is a political genius! He has done what we ask of our leaders in Africa: an “opposition” candidate won d presidential election & he handed over power peacefully. This is d first time an incumbent president in Africa has subverted democracy while upholding its procedures!
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Students at Makerere University have an exaggerated sense of entitlement. Students at private universities in Uganda, like UCU and Nkozi, pay much more in fees and get much less in education than Makerere but we don’t here them striking over high fees.
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I am in Kigali to commemorate 30 years since the genocide against the Tutsi. But more importantly it is to celebrate the extraordinary come back of this nation: from a collapsed state and economy and torn-apart society to the most promising country in Africa.
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I am in Kigali, seen this.👇🏽Meanwhile yesterday I visited a construction site, got tyres of my car very dirty. While driving on Kigali’s clean streets, a traffic police officer approached us and asked why we were driving a dirty car making the street dirty. Kampala, do u read me?
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Last night my grand daughter
@MargaretMuhanga
visited and we sang, danced and dedicated this song to
@rkabushenga
and all the Bakiga. Critics are saying my singing of Rukiga and dancing of Kikiga traditional dance will go right into the textbooks as the best ever!
@cobbo3
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#COVID19
Magufuli can intimidate those trying to publicize the tragedy unfolding in Tanzania & Twitter can help him block videos exposing this mess. But as police & ambulances pick dead bodies from homes daily, these scenes and sounds of sirens cannot be hidden from Tanzanians!
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This is to congratulate my friend, brother and comrade,
@mkainerugaba
as the new CDF! This is the third phase of the struggle to transform UPDF. This is a new broom coming to sweep defense headquarters. Those who have been involved in dirty deals, beware what is coming.
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To People Power supporters: 138 of u thanked me 4 my tweet confirming & condemning the torture of MP Zaake. Can u join me 2 condemn your colleagues who threw bottles & chairs at Bebe Cool? Do u agree with me these are hooligan acts? Let me see if u hold any principles!
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ICC, which kept silent about US mass murders in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria, etc., which kept silent on US tortures in Guantanamo, Abu Greb, and other black sites, now claims it is investigating Russia for war crimes. The level of Western hypocrisy has hit a new low
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We are at kololo airstrip all fired up and ready to do a marathon to celebrate
@mkainerugaba
48’s birthday! Better hurry before the train leaves you. We are doing aerobics first and then we shall have MK flag off the marathon in a few.
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This thug, Ashraf, assaulted a police officer on duty with a harmer trying to murder her. He is
@HEBobiwine
’s supporter protesting his leader’s arrest! What does Bobi Wine have to say about this behavior? The good news is that now Ashraf is in police custody.
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A birthday to remember! Thank you
@PaulKagame
and
@FirstLadyRwanda
for hosting us, for making your home such a relaxing place for our delegation!
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This morning, I ran 20km from Serena Hotel, Kigali to Kanombe International Airport and back. Running in Kigali is like running in Dubai or Singapore or a Tokyo - the streets crisp clean and tidy. At 110 years, this is not bad.
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I know of no one in Uganda who could be the best envoy to
@PaulKagame
and meaningfully discuss the issues between Kigali and Kampala other than my brother
@mkainerugaba
! First he believes this relationship is of great strategic value for both countries and for Africa. Second…
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When protestors in Sri Lanka invade the presidential palace & the residence of the prime minister, forcing elected leaders to resign, that is democracy. When protestors do it in Washington DC (January 06, 2021) they are terrorists, are jailed and prosecuted! Amazing world.
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I am at capital shoppers garden city mall, they have run out or sanitizers. Mega supermarket above is also dry. Carrefour is also empty. Uganda has run out of sanitizers, demonstrating that either some smart businessman is hoarding to make a killing or we take health seriously
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I thot my grandson Simon Kagwanjala was inviting me to speak about the MK movement! Anyway this movement is the game changer! Whoever doesn’t watch this show tomorrow will be stripped of their citizenship and sent to North Korea😜😜
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This is not acceptable democratic protest. This is hooliganism and pure thuggery. These hooligans ransacking parliament should be stopped; and the crackdown should be immediate, swift and decisive. Where is the Kenyan police and army? Abdication of duty?
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Here are Tanzanian government officials burying someone who died of
#COVID19
in the dark of night! Even the minister of justice has died of covid! Magufuli is carrying out a very dangerous experiment that does not only affect Tanzania but the entire East Africa!
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When Obama, Cameron & Sarkozy led rebels against Gadaffi, I criticized them. The Twitter mob lynched me. 8 years later Libya is a mess. Today I sound a warning against mob rule in Sudan, the mob abusing me. Sudan needs democracy, not mobocracy. Order is the foundation of liberty
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Early this morning while walking inside Butabika Hospital I meet this mentally ill man sleeping on the road where he probably spent the night.
These two neighborhood dogs came and slept on each of his side keeping guard over him. The things the spirits of our ancestors can do!!
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The Russian attack on Ukraine had been caused by USA insensitivity to Moscow’s security concerns and the stupidity of Ukraine’s leaders in failing to avoid getting entangled in the rivalry among the big powers. Couldn’t they see that joining NATO was a red line for Russia?
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To our friends in the western world: please keep out of this debate. We appreciate your solidarity but we don’t need your support. Your involvement with sanctions and travel bans distorts the whole issue, making it like you want to impose your values on Uganda.
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Thank you
@mkainerugaba
and
@PaulKagame
for your efforts to bring sanity to this relationship
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As you can see from the number plate in downtown Kampala, this boda cyclist has a flat screen TV on his motorcycle, for his passengers to watch! Indeed
@KagutaMuseveni
has failed this country😏😏🙇🏽♂️🙇🏽♂️
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