By Ivan Kaahwa

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni expressed confidence in applauding the security forces for effectively overseeing the Nyege Nyege festival without encountering any serious incidents, including terrorism. He asserted that infiltrators deployed by remnants of the ADF in Congo aimed to disrupt the event of the Suspected sinners (Participants in Nyege Nyege), downplaying advisory warnings from Americans and British discouraging their citizens to come to Uganda. Museveni labeled these advisories as unwarranted panic and stressed that it is the responsibility of Ugandan forces to issue advisories if the situation demands.

The President boasted about the security’s preparedness to handle any eventualities and criticized foreign advisories that interfere with Uganda’s internal affairs. He argued that incidents of terrorism in Africa are either created or sustained by external actors attempting to police the globe. Museveni referred to chaos in various African countries, such as Libya, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, and Chad, attributing it to Nations issuing advisories.

He expressed amazement at the UN’s supervision and coexistence with killers in Eastern Congo for the past 20 years, blaming it for creating a free space for various malicious elements leading to training rebels, stealing resources from Congo and Killing people which undermines the economic future of the Great Lakes.

He commended the move by the President of Congo, H.E. Tshisekedi, to allow UPDF to deal with the terrorist threats in Congo. Museveni highlighted recent successful operations that neutralized infiltrators and led to the arrest of prominent rebel commanders, including Njovu, who was remanded until November 17th 2023.

“We shall finish all of those inside Congo, working with the Congo Army and our brothers and sisters, the Congolese,” he declared.

Museveni recounted an incident at Kasiindi on the Congo side, where civilians reportedly burned a dead body out of anger against terrorists. The website featured a story where Congolese citizens, in an act of discontent, reportedly feasted on a dead body in a carnivorous act, expressing their anger against the atrocities committed by the rebels in DRC.

He revealed that an individual identified as Abu wa Kasi, an Arab from Tanzania, sent individuals to carry out attacks on children at Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School where over 40 students were burnt in a dormitory, tourists in Queen Elizabeth National Park, and a tour guide.

Quoting the Book of Matthew in the Bible (Chapter 7:6), Don’t give to dogs what is holy and don’t throw your pearls to the pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, then turn and attack you”.
Museveni justified referring to the ADF as “pigs” and emphasized that rebels who choose criminality over a living will pay with their lives.

He questioned the persistence of such criminality in Africa, a continent where prominent figures like Nyerere, Nkrumah, Mandela, Musaazi, and Lumumba fought for liberation. Museveni acknowledged Uganda’s capacity to make a decisive contribution in the neighboring parts of Africa.

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