UGANDA: KCCA'S Musisi resigns - a tale of a burst condom

KCCA'S MUSISI RESIGNS - A TALE OF A BURST CONDOM

“I have appointed this woman Musisi to clear up the mess that has been caused by the opposition in Kampala city management for decades, and you people should just wait and see what she is going to do."

Museveni told the people who gathered at Kkindu Catholic Church grounds for the thanksgiving celebrations on July 25, 2011.

On 5th October, 2018 while touring Kampala city, Museveni told residents that;

"You sent me away for 20 years now. When someone hangs themselves, we don’t cry for them.” He was referring to Kampala City's being an opposition stronghold.

He said the leaders they elected could not help them solve problems adding that the voters only contributed to their(leaders) getting rich and were not rewarded in return.

According to Museveni, when he realised the city had gone to opposition, he used powers vested to him by Ugandans to create the position of the Kampala Executive Director to manage affairs of the city.

“The mayor(Lukwago) was now left with ceremonial powers,”he said.

On 16 August, 2016 we ran the following article;

MAYOR LUKWAGO IS FOUGHT BY MUSEVENI AND NOT JANIFFER MUSISI

At 4:37 PM

When the opposition strongman Eriasi Lukwago was elected by the people in 2011 as the Mayor of Kampala, Museveni refused him to take up his office. Museveni used the Kampala Executive Director, Janiffer Musisi, the Minister In-charge of Kampala, Frank Tumwebaze, some Councilors, and the Police to enforce his wishes. Lukwago's unrelenting commitment to opposition ideologies and his close association with the firebrand opposition leader, Dr. Besigye swelled his popularity among the predominantly opposition leaning residents of Kampala city.

The recent overwhelming vote for the opposition in Kampala amidst the fear for the much anticipated mass protests against Museveni's rigging of elections forced Museveni to rethink his stand on Lukwago. In his accurate estimates, Museveni rightly knew that by continuing to block Lukwago from accessing his office, he was preparing the fuel that would ignite the anticipated mass action. There is no doubt that behind the scenes efforts to lure Lukwago into distancing himself from Dr. Besigye were made. It is highly probable that such approach involved threats of dire consequences on his life and political future.

The only people who could sweet talk Lukwago must have been Gen. Kayihura or Gen. Saleh. That is why Gen. Saleh has been and continues to pitch camp in Lukwago's back yard of Rubaga Division. From the trend of events, it is most likely that Lukwago did not give a definite answer but at least a ceasefire deal was secured. This is what gave rise to a series of cosmetic attacks by Museveni on Janepher Musisi's alleged maladministration of Kampala City Authority.

The appointment of Betty Kamya, a Muganda though he had lost at the polls, as the Minister of the newly created Ministry of Kampala city, was meant to neutralize the power and influence of both Lukwago and Janiffer Musisi. We are yet to see who of the two will act as the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Kampala City!!!! Betty Kamya has the task of diffusing and dismantling the opposition influence in Kampala as a counter measure to the threat of mass protest under the defiance campaign. Therefore Betty Kamya is Museveni's political mobilizer for Kampala City.

The public was taken up by debates of whether Lukwago will this time round work with Janifer Musisi but forgot that the latter was only fighting Museveni's proxy wars against the former. Without Museveni's interference the two can amicably work together.

However, because of the billions of taxi revenues generated by KCCA, the land grabbing, the need to contain the influence of the unpredictable Buganda Kingdom, and the containment of the politically hostile residents of Kampala, Museveni has to poke his nose into the running of Kampala city.

Therefore, its only Museveni who allowed Mayor Lukwago to assume his office just as a counter defiance campaign measure. Once he will have diffused the threat of Defiance Campaign, there is no doubt Museveni will once again be on Lukwago's neck unless the Lord Mayor dances to his tune.

INFORMATION IS POWER AND DEFIANCE IS THE WAY TO GO
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In most cases a condom is used and discarded at the pleasure of the user. However, in some rare cases a condom can burst and cause harm to the user.

Museveni used Janepher MUSISI to fight Lukwago but her resignation is to some extent politically hurting Museveni. Musisi could have learnt about her impending discard and sought to save her C.V by preemptively resigning. Whatever the case, Musisi knows that her appointment had been solely to fight Mayor Lukwago.

Therefore her lamentation over reconciling the competing interests between political and developmental strategies; lack of political support in transforming the city etc as her grounds for resigning are baseless.

Both the intact and burst condoms are USED CONDOMS which at some stage must be discarded.

INFORMATION IS POWER AND THE PROBLEM OF UGANDA IS MUSEVENISM

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