President Museveni has directed security to arrest anyone who pronounces him lifeless, in particular on social media
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Several social media structures have in the past few weeks been awash with reports saying Museveni dead whereas others have indicated that he had been admitted in a essential circumstance in a neighboring u . S ..
The reviews indicated that the president had shrunk the deadly Covid-19.
However, talking at the swearing-in of ministers at the Kololo independence grounds, Museveni said it is wrong to announce someone who is alive lifeless.
“Social media seemingly has been pronouncing that Museveni is lifeless. The other day after I went to that facet of Bombo to lay a basis people have been looking at me (with shock) because they were advised by social media that Museveni is useless or some thing like that,” Museveni said on Thursday.
“The safety provider desires to additionally solve that hassle. I want to check with them in order that we locate speedy folks that tell this type of story because you waste people’s time. We must move for you. We must find in which you are and opt for you. If you’re in Europe, we denounce you and say go to hell.”
President Museveni has for the past few years loved a love-hate relationship with social media in Uganda.
In April 2018, Museveni directed the Ministry of Finance to introduce a now defunct social media tax referred to as “Over the Top” tax in a bid to curtail what he known as ‘gossip’.
The tax become but scrapped in June 2021, after failing to comprehend both its monetary and ‘curbing’ objectives as social media users within the united states of america keep growing.
During the run-as much as the 2021 fashionable elections in the u . S . A ., Museveni additionally directed the Uganda Communications Commission to dam important social media web page, Facebook and although this stays closed, Ugandans maintain to get right of entry to it with the assist of Virtual Private Networks.
Commenting about the safety of the united states, the president boasted that the organization that became terrorizing the u . S . Has been busted, to usher in a brand new generation.
“Now we've broken that organization. Three of them have been killed as they had been looking to fight the police and sent them to hell. And to terrorists, I warn, you, if we come for you don’t run, surrender. If you try to run, you are useless,” he said.
Museveni’s comments come on the returned heel of the seven people who had been arrested via protection over the tried assassination on the Works Ministry, Gen Edward Katumba Wamala.
Security remaining week announced the arrest of Kamada Walusimbi aka Mudinka, Siriman Kisambira aka Mukwasi, Juma Saidi, Juma Sserwadda and Muhammad Kagugube aka Bafumoya while Hussein Wahab Lubwama aka Master and Mustafa Kawawa Ramadan aka Amin have been shot useless as they allegedly attempted to get away.
According to the deputy Inspector General of Police, Gen Paul Lokech, the organization became part of the Allied Democratic Forces(ADF) mobile in Uganda that became seeking to restablish themselves, adding that they have got been worried in several murders and robberies in diverse components of the country.
Seven of those group contributors had been on Thursday morning arraigned before court and charged with murder and terrorism before being remanded to Kitalya prison.
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