UGANDA: Identifying Museveni's under priviledged security personnel

IDENTIFYING MUSEVENI'S UNDERPRIVILEGED SECURITY PERSONNEL

By CHANGE OF GUARDS

"At the right time and with your permission, I intend to move a substantive motion for the improvement of the welfare of our men and women in uniform and I request all of you members to support my motion when I bring it because I believe that in many ways that their living conditions cause some of them to treat us so inhumanely. I believe that if we treat them right, we shall have the moral authority to demand that they treat us humanely."
Hon. Bobi Wine on the floor of Parliament last week.

But who are these security personnel whose living conditions are dire?

1. Many of them bribe their way to be recruited because they have no Godfathers in government and security forces.

2. Those, who upon completion of basic training are deployed in insignificant positions.

3. Those whose promotion is at the mercy of their superiors as opposed to merit.

4. Those who can't access further training and skills development courses on merit.

5. Those who earn peanuts in terms of salary.

6. Those who have to bribe their superiors so as to be selected for Peace Keeping missions where remuneration is very high.

7. Those who sleep in grass thatched tents, uni-ports, mortuaries and toilets-turned into residences, and dilapidated structures.

8. Those whose salary can't cater for the basic needs of their immediate families.

9. Those whose meagre salary is compulsorily slashed every month under the guise of SACCOS but only to be swindled.

10. Those who are serving under fear of selective injustice under military courts.

11. Those who are used, abused and retired without any reasonable package.

12. Those who are recalled from retirement whenever the regime needs manpower, used, abused and discarded thereafter.

13. Those whose retirement packages and survivor benefits are swindled in billions with impunity.

14. Those who are publicly assaulted and humiliated by their superiors with impunity.

15. Those who are forcefully evicted from barracks to give way to 'investors' without provision for alternative accommodation.

16. This who guard private businesses, residences, farms and construction sites of their superiors.

17. Those who are deployed to violently evict citizens from their land and other property.

18. Those who are deployed to violently suppress political dissent.

19. Those who are deployed to provide backups in the torture and guard victims in Safe Houses (secret torture chambers).

20. Those who desert the forces for genuine reasons but their names remain on the payroll as their superiors continue to draw their salaries.

21. Those who hide the dead bodies of their children in boxes as they use public transport to take them for burial in their respective homes.

22. Those on whose behalf the annual defense budget has always been skyrocketing but with no impact on their living conditions.

23. Those that are used to fight the regime's external wars of aggression.

24. Those that are used by the regime to do multiple voting during elections.

25. Those that are subjected to constant surveillance and scrutiny over their loyalty to the regime.

26. Those whose lives are endangered in field operations when their superiors having diverted financial and logistical resources.

27. Those that are victimised and branded subversive whenever they attempt to air their genuine grievances.

28. Those that don't have the privilege of serving under Museveni's elite SFC whose welfare is preferential.

They are the silent majority.

ITS NOT:

1. Those who earn a higher salary, manage huge operational funds which they swindle.

2. Those who make deals in fake defence procurement.

3. Those who have huge business empires managed by their spouses and other family members.

4. Those whose accommodation is paid for by the taxpayer yet the same houses are owned by same beneficiaries.

5. Not those who create and benefit from ghost personnel.

6. Not those who acquired and continue to grab government property.

7. Not those whose retirement benefits are in hundreds of millions of taxpayers money.

8. Not those who benefit from looting and from external wars of aggression.

9. Not those who benefit from inflated security threats and the huge operational funds.

10. Not those who serve under Museveni's SFC whose welfare is preferential.

11. Not those who have Godfathers within the forces who influence their promotion and deployment.

12. Not those whose children and families can afford private schools and hospitals.

These are the loud minority. 

“We don’t want any kind of support from Honorable Kyagulanyi. The officers are fine and are not complaining. The UPDF is already adequately represented by 10 MPs and 3 Ministers of Defense and Veterans Affairs, who are putting all the necessary energy for the betterment of soldiers’ welfare.
These are sufficiently representing our interests and there is no gap. Let him represent the people of Kyadondo East who sent him there (Parliament) not the UPDF. We don’t want it."

INFORMATION IS POWER AND THE PROBLEM OF UGANDA IS MUSEVENISM