Wilfred Businge

Your masterly of profanities is what I really concede. I will pivot to the substance and restate as follows: Article 208(2) of the Constitution requires the UPDF to be non-partisan, national in character, and subordinate to civilian authority. Section 16(1) of the Political Parties and Organisations Act (Cap. 178) prohibits a member of the Defence Forces from: -being a founder, promoter or member of a political party or organisation; holding office in one. -speaking publicly on matters of political party or organisation controversy; or canvassing for a political party/organisation or a candidate. - Section 1(2) of the same Act excludes pressure groups and civic organisations from the definition of “political organisation.” A pressure group is a body that seeks to influence public opinion and government action without operating as a party. Section 97 of the UPDF Act (Cap. 330) only requires a serving officer to resign or retire when he or she desires to seek political office. It does not create a blanket ban on all civic association. Article 78(1)(c) expressly permits serving officers to sit in Parliament as army representatives while remaining in uniform — demonstrating that limited, structured participation is constitutionally contemplated. Application to a CDF chairing a civic organisation supporting NRM activities: If the body is genuinely a civic organisation or pressure group that merely supports or influences NRM policy/activities without itself operating “as” a political organisation (i.e., without contesting elections, sponsoring candidates under its own name, or maintaining the internal structures of a party), then section 16 does not automatically apply. The High Court (Justice Wolimbwa, 20 October 2026) has already held that supporting the political ambitions of a serving officer does not, without more, make an organisation an unlawful society. You seem to be trapped in the notion of “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it is a duck.”!

August 26, 2026 Sam Mugumya abducted by armed men in plain clothes at NIM Hotel in Nyamitanga, Mbarara City, bundled into a drone vehicle and driven away to unknown destination.   August 28, 2025 Sam Mugumya’s lawyers to the State before the High Court: Where is Sam Mugumya? Produce him dead or alive.   Lt Col Edgar Musasizi (Director of Civil Affairs at the Ministry of Defense and Veteran Affairs): We (the military) have searched all our detention facilities and records but found no entry relating to Sam Mugumya. The UPDF, therefore, has no knowledge of his whereabouts.   Police: We are not holding Sam Mugumya.   September 5, 2025 Justice Collins Acellam to the State and the UPDF: Produce Sam Mugumya in court or account for his whereabouts within seven days.   October 2, 2026 CDF Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba: Yes, I have Sam Mugumya. He is fine but I will execute him soon.   October 7, 2026 Sam Mugumya’s lawyers to Government before the High Court, again: Where is Sam Mugumya? Produce him dead or alive.   October 15, 2026 Lt Col Edgar Musasizi (Director of Civil Affairs at the Ministry of Defense and Veteran Affairs): Sam Mugumya has never been abducted or detained by SFC or held at any gazetted detention center under its command or control.   October 26, 2026 Judge Simon Peter Kinobe: I have given the State two weeks (until November 9, 2026) to conclude investigations into this matter.   Ugandans: Where is Sam Mugumya?

Andrew Mwenda, with a straight face, falsely claimed that the People's Front for Freedom (PFF) did not win a single seat in the current (12th) Parliament, and the host, Terry Kahuma, did not challenge him. PFF has two MPs in the 12th Parliament: ~Betty Aol Ocan, Gulu City Woman MP ~Asinansi Nyakato, Hoima City Woman MP.