Museveni warns on spreading falsehoods

Statement by President Yoweri Museveni on Irresponsible People Spreading Falsehoods - Social Media


My dear country men and country women,

About two or so weeks ago, I made a voice recorded message that I caused to be transmitted to the listeners over the social media network known as WhatsApp that some irresponsible people have, apparently, been using to spread falsehoods.

That time, the message was in Runyankore-Rukiga (part of the Runyakitara or what I proposed to call Kinyanja ─ North, as opposed to the Kinyanja of Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique), because the irresponsible people had used that dialect to propagate their falsehoods. I call these dialects Kinyaja ─ North because they are mutually intelligible dialects in the Great Lakes area.  

Those that are mutually intelligible are used by a population I estimate to be about 60 million people if not more. On that occasion, I used the words: Abasiru, Abashema and Abazigu (stupid, uninformed and enemies) to describe the authors of that sectarian and criminal altercation.

Although I had strong suspicion that the authors, were criminal opportunitists who were using sectarianism to try and profit politically, I reacted as if the actors were uninformed villagers that needed education about the powerful, ancient interlacustrine (the people of the Lakes ─ Amayaanja:─ Nalubaale, Mwitanzigye, Masyooro, Kioga, Rutshuru-Butuumbi) peoples who had advanced agriculture (crops and livestock), fishing, industry (metal work, ceramics, leather-working, wood-work, textiles, etc), had symbiotic societies but were badly governed by the, sometimes, parasitic and tyrannical chiefs who were responsible for our colonization by failing to unite us so as to face the colonial forces.  

About a week ago, the intelligence service brought me a forged letter that I was supposed to have written to the late Gaddaffi on the 25th of January, 2010.  In that forged letter,  I was supposed to be informing Gaddaffi about my political intentions and plans in Uganda, denigrating some of my comrades in the struggle and showing a sectarian attitude towards one of our Ugandan communities, the Bakiga ─ i.e. the same Bakiga of the other sectarian recording.

Fortunately, this time, the intelligence services and the vigilant NRM people were able to discover who the authors might be and who the propagators were.  Indeed, the Police already have some suspects.  I would like to inform the listeners and those who follow the goings on, on the social media that that letter is a forgery.  




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Statement by President Museveni on Irresponsible People Spreading Falsehoods - Social Media by The New Vision