Former State House operative in charge of political affairs Charles Rwomushana has warned the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) legislators to be careful in dealing with the passing of the controversial Sovereignty Bill 2026 noting that chances are high that they might be the first victims of the law once it’s signed by the President.
He claims that the reason why president Museveni who is also the NRM national chairperson is pushing for the passing of the Sovereignty bill is because of the huge amount of money that was used during the 2026 general elections especially in the NRM primaries where his intelligence cited foreign invisible hands in the said cash.
“ Don’t think that my uncle (Museveni) is very stupid seeing very rich politicians like Mike Mukula, pulling out of the NRM Central Executive Committee (CEC) competition, deputy speaker of parliament Thomas Tayebwa crying over the huge source of money in the NRM primaries campaigns. He knows that this opposition of yours you’re talking about is far away from power and those close the power can use that foreign money to overthrow his government. By the way, he is very serious about that bill and he will make sure it is passed,” Rwomushana said.
Former Speaker of parliament Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga alleged that money was the reason why current speaker Annet Anita Among defeated her on the position of the NRM’s first female national vice chairperson.
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Haruna Kasolo the NRM vice chairperson in charge of Buganda also claimed.that at the NRM delegates conference at Kololo independence grounds, bags of money were smuggled into the venue and used to buy voters to the extent that some people went back home with not less than Shs20m which they received as a bribe for voting.
Highly placed sources in the Attorney General’s chambers where the sovereignty bill was drafted from revealed to Ono Bwino that since the arrest of the opposition strongman Dr Kizza Besigye and his political assistant Haji Obed Lutale Kamulegeya from Nairobi and the evidence brought to the president by security claiming that the accused persons had been mobilizing huge amounts of money to create inflation in the country, and be used to create political unrest, Museveni has been pondering making a law that can be used to tame people who think of using such political routes against his government.
According to evidence that the State disclosured to Besigye’s lawyers, the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Lino Anguzo claimed that Besigye had special dealing with a rich Kurdish community to finance his political struggle against Museveni and once he had taken power, he would help them to use Uganda as a ground to fight for their recognition.
Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group indigenous to a geographic region known as Kurdistan, which spans parts of southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syria.
According to documents, the Kurds are estimated to be a population of 30–45 million people around the world constituting the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East but they are considered a stateless nation.
While originating in Kurdistan, significant Kurdish diaspora communities exist in Europe particularly Germany, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands, as well as in Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and North America.
Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka tipped on this issue when he was submitting before the Committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs and the Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Internal Affairs when defending the sovereignty bill insisting that the law is needed to tame such characters.
The National Unity Platform (NUP) Secretary for diaspora affairs Marvin Saasi insists that the bill is targeting his principal Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine). He claims that Museveni was shocked seeing him running his 2026 presidential campaigns and funding his party candidates for different political offices without government’s Inter-Party Organisation for Dialogue (IPOD) money
He also explained that without IPOD money, Bobi Wine commanded a fundraising drive locally and internationally and the billions of monies he received from Ugandans and other well wishers from abroad was used by the party in the campaigns that is why they are closing that avenue of getting money.
Other highly placed sources told Ono Bwino that Museveni was disturbed when told how his foreign enemies use Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to fund Bobi Wine campaigns and he was scared of the Maandamano demonstrations which took place in Kenya and demonstrations in Tanzania during the 2025 general elections.
The political succession battle is also cited to have influenced the sovereignty bill as sources claiming that money will be a big factor in determining Museveni’s successor
“Money has been a big factor in Museveni succession battle, professor Gilbert Bukenya and Amama Mbabazi created a number of sources and wealthy foreign contacts thinking that they will fund their political ambitions to replace Museveni. Museveni followed their plans closely as he is doing now and closed them at once. He is currently doing the same thing because he knows how people close to him stole public funds and invested it in foreign countries thinking that they will use it to disorganize his political succession plan,” another source told Ono Bwino.
Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister Norbert Mao said that Museveni understands what money means in politics and it is the reason why he promised to give Shs100m to the newly NRM elected legislators to prevent them from being compromised during the coming parliamentary speakership elections.
Political scientists Samuel Odonga Otto said that the only option to survive the sovereignty bill is for religious leaders, opposition leaders, cultural leaders and opinion leaders to seek for a meeting with the President and plead with him to stop the bill noting that if passed, they are going to be heavily affected.
Former Ugandan representative to the East African parliament Fred Mukasa Mbidde said that him and a number of lawyers are closely following the process of passing the sovereignty bill into a law noting that they are very ready to challenge it at the Constitutional Court on grounds that violates the country’s supreme law which is the constitution
Dr Chris Baryomunsi the minister in charge of information and national guidance, assured Mbidde that government’s lawyers are ready to deal with him and other private lawyers in the Constitutional court insisting that the law is urgently needed to protect Uganda’s sovereignty.
