Muntu vows never to fight for change with gun

PIC: Maj.Gen.Mugisha Muntu chats with Wadri Kasiano during the consultative meeting in Arua (Credit: By Robert Ariaka)

POLITICS
 
ARUA - Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu has vowed never to pick a gun to fight in order to take over power from the current leadership of National Resistant Movement (NRM) party.

Speaking during a consultative meeting in Arua town on Monday, Muntu said he will never pick an AK47 gun to fight for change. He was addressing members of the civil society organisations, politicians and other members of the public at Hotel Cafeteria.
 
"Do not expect to see me carry an AK47 to bring change in Uganda and for those who want to pick guns to bring change, I will keep praying for them," Muntu said.
 
He said time will come for natural calamity to catch up with President Yoweri Museveni, which will leave NRM in a crisis. As a result, Muntu called on the Opposition to structure itself to take over power with strong leadership.
 
Muntu noted that currently in Uganda, there is a leadership crisis, which calls for understanding institutions and its leaders that have been manipulated by the ruling Government.
 
He urged Ugandans to stop focusing on individualising parties, but focus on policy settings to groom many through parties that are institutionalised for a stronger power change.
 
The former fighter said President Museveni does not believe in building institutions, but believes in himself as a person, which will make the NRM party collapse when he is no more.
 
Muntu said the best way to take over power from the current regime is to form strong party structures.

Muntu chatting with Dick Nyai (seated) as Wadri Kasiano listens. (Credit: Robert Ariaka)
 
"We focus a lot on regime change, but we also need to focus on cultural change, where people's mindset is changed," Muntu said.

He alleges that President Museveni is selfish leader, who has created divisionism and nepotism.

"People still think I am planted by the NRM in the FDC part, but those who know my track record in the army know my position. We worked with Gen. Museveni, but we later separated on grounds of principal and I have no plans of reuniting with him.
 
On the issue of the internal fights in the FDC party, Muntu said unless the party resolves the wrangle, they will be wasting their energy.

According to Muntu, those who believe in defiance should be left to continue with it, while those who think building structures and party systems are also given the leeway.
 
Wadri Kasiano, the former MP for Terego County, said Muntu sacrificed his life for Uganda and kept his dignity. He said the people of Uganda expected much more from President Musevni regarding protecting the Constitution, but he has let them down.

According to Kasiano, 80% of Ugandans said no to the amending of the Constitution, but the MPs went ahead and messed with it.
 
Kasiano decried the level of impunity where people are intimidated because they did not fight in the guerrilla war that liberated Uganda. He cited the collapsing education system, health status and the high inflation rate in the country.
 
Yuma Manase, a senior politician, said Ugandans misunderstood politics after taking over power from the British, saying the leaders should let all Ugandans participate in politics freely.
 
Manase said all Ugandans from the various regions should consider living as brothers and sisters and consider having rotational leadership so that the country achieves regional balance.
 
Dick Nyai, the former MP Ayivu County on UPC ticket, said Uganda is full of rats that have failed to bell the cat. He said there is only one cat in Uganda that has become a huge challenge for Ugandans to overcome.
 
Nyai believes Ugandans to join efforts to come out of the mess they are into.