Moses Byaruhanga a Senior Presidential Advisor wants Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) Chief Executive Officer Nyombi Thembo to take action and punish Makerere University law don Godber Tumushabe for branding Museveni’s letters on politics and economy as ‘comedy’.
Byaruhanga a long servicing State House boss insist that it is indiscipline and immoral for a person of Tumushabe’s calibre to openly on a public forum to declare the President’s statements as ‘comedy’ noting that he should be punish
A furious Byaruhanga claimed that Tumushabe is not going to be the first person to be punished by UCC since another social, political and economic commentator was disciplined when he made similar statements on Capital radio.
He advised Tumushabe to withdraw the statements to avoid the eventualities but the law don insisted that he said nothing which could be labeled as annoying the president noting that whatever he told the public through KFM was the truth.
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He defended his statement noting that since 1996 elections, Museveni has been writing and making statements that there is no opposition in Uganda but when political campaigns start, he spends billions looking for support.
He thus wondered that if there is no opposition, why is he spending his money, that is why he branded the situation as comedy.
He added that after the 2021 general elections, Museveni claimed that National Unity Platform (NUP) principal Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine) stole his votes in Buganda, yet even though he did not provide any evidence or orders of the arrest of all individuals who participated in the crime of stealing his votes.
In Defence of his boss, Byaruhanga boasted that Museveni being the President of the country receives a lot of classified intelligence information, and stealing his vote is part of the information that is why he shared it with Ugandans so that they understand why he didn’t perform well in those areas he mentioned.
He insisted that if UCC doesn’t punish Tumushabe, there will be a problem with them in executing their obligations.
However, KFM’s hot seat moderator Patrick Kamara challenged Byaruhanga to prove that Tumushabe’s statements were undermining the person of the president.
He put him on notice that he is available to defend his panelist while awaiting to see the evidence which Byaruhanga will take to UCC to support his complaint.
