Op-Ed
Deep-felt congratulations, comrade Gen Yoweri Museveni, Uganda’s ninth president, for winning the contest for your ninth term (1986-1990; 1990-1996; 1996-2001; 2001-2006; 2006-2011; 2011-2016; 2016-2021; 2021-2026; 2026-2031)! May you rise to your special historical mission this time around!
Surprisingly, a number of your admirers such as Andrew Mwenda have openly told the world you are no longer loved by the majority of Ugandans, but that the state resources of big money, weapons and security apparatus, and outright rigging always lead to your being declared the winner. They even feel pessimistic about your ability to perform well given your age, cynically categorizing you as going to be preoccupied with the past (‘the gains’) rather than with the future of the country. Indeed, many people have already resigned your latest win of over 70 percent to the judgment of God Himself.
In July 2014, I wrote a full-page newspaper article ‘Was Museveni longevity prophesied before 1800?’ to show that your longevity in power was long prophesied by people like Kakara-ka-Shagama, Queen Mother Kibooga, Rucumita and Kahaibaare before and during the 1800s, as the young man who with colleagues would first hide in the bush (ekihongore) and whose supporters would be throwing the ‘abusive mutinzi’ (the NRM thumb-up) at him and he welcomes it with delight. The prophecies said the end of your long reign would coincide with major changes in global governance.
In July 2017, when Uganda still had the age limits in the Constitution, I wrote another full-page newspaper article ‘Only Museveni can succeed President Museveni’, arguing that you would continue to win elections until you get tired or die, but that none from your extended family should bother themselves trying to succeed you; it would have to be someone from outside your family.
By 2020, when you hastily called me twice to State House, it was obvious that you and your son Muhoozi Kainerugaba were preparing for him to take over the presidency in 2026. Both of you have had to postpone that. With this new win, you have got another opportunity to point the nation to someone to succeed you; someone with potential to unite and develop this country.
Much as I have never quarreled for a rehabilitation package for my pre-Tarehe Sita 1981 assignment, I did request you in 2020 that you meet a retired low-level civil servant from Kabale, Kigezi that had a lot of things to tell you stemming from May 1974. However, that has been in vain up to now.
While working in Jinja town in 1974, this man got a series of visions and commands that included: (a) a young man with a red beret; (b) a yellow rosary that shall have to sponsor the message of peace for the whole world; (c) popularity of the Uganda flag and need for changes to it; (d) the purchase and storage of the medal of St. Martin of Porres (the same as what Pope Francis later gave you as a gift in 2014 in the Vatican); (e) a ubiquitous map of Africa, still following him to date; (f) two types of crosses, one with Jesus on and the other without Jesus but with capacity to fly into the skies (‘heaven’); (g) return of the ‘original’ Uganda flag from Saudi Arabia; (h) the military leaders who overthrow the Ugandan state on January 25 (the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul) and their common duty to return bodies of former presidents abroad; and (i) burying all Ugandan presidents at Kololo. NB: The vision pointed to another January 25 overthrow of government besides the one of 1971; historians confirm that this happened in 1986.
(You may recall that President Idi Amin returned the body of President Edward Muteesa in 1971 though he had militarily chased him from his palace in 1966. Cabinet meeting minutes of 1971 show that Amin actually suggested that all Ugandan presidents should be buried in one place. You too now have the noble duty to return Idi Amin’s body to Uganda, even as you have always stated that you defeated him militarily. There is no reconciliation you can do greater than this act.)
I wish to remind you that you still have to meet this old man of Kigezi because, among other things: (a) the declaration of a forthcoming message of peace for the whole world must be done by him in Kigezi, which includes launch of a book that you should sponsor as the head of state. His efforts to reach you since early 1990s, including sending documents through your minister Kahinda Otafiire in the 1990s, have never born fruit. He is having financial and technical challenges regarding completing his manuscript and having it produced by a professional publisher.
(b) As long as you clothe the yellow colour and you are the president of Uganda, you are enjoined to sponsor a five-year compilation process of a message of peace for the whole world, already announced to start 2026. (This project is totally different and superior to your daughter Pastor Patience Rwabwogo’s Light Up Uganda for Jesus missions that you have been attending personally, and international evangelists that pull crowds in Uganda but never lead to a new dispensation.)
“… We are born again Christians from Austria. During our local fellowship, we had a vision about your country. We did not know even in which part of Africa Uganda was. //According to the vision Uganda is a blessed country. God is in Uganda. The Lord is doing his final work here in Uganda. //Here in Uganda exists a man who is heading this work, who is Elijah, Moses and heir to David’s throne. Also the covenant box is supposed to be in Uganda. Ugandans are to be a special race of God, God’s chosen people. //… According to the vision, the man is on the western part of River Nile. //This is no joking matter….” – Wilhelm Wetzel and Emil Klein (The New Vision, 1992).
P.S. You may not believe or implement what is stated above, but these are matters for historical record.
By John Musinguzi
The author is a retired journalist.
Email: johnmoriginal@yahoo.com
