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Kato announced Monday night that he was “going back to the roots” after failing to realize his aspirations in the NRM.
In a video posted on his social media platforms, Kato apologized for “betraying” his former friends and colleagues.
Looking back at the past three years, he said, he regretted “losing everything, including my friends and family, my father (Bobi Wine) and best friend Isma Olaxes."
“I will never forgive myself, I lost my fame and popularity, my platforms and numbers and fans and followers; I now feel like I am dead and gone,” he said.
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“On my knees, to everyone that I betrayed…all the comrades I left in the struggle, I am so sorry, and the time is now. I am coming home.”
Kato abandoned the opposition NUP party, then known as the People Power Movement, and announced joining the NRM party in May 2020.
This was after a picture of him posing with President Yoweri Museveni and NRM mobilizer Balaam Barugahare surfaced on the internet.
Kato had been a friend of the NUP leader Bobi Wine and a key mobilizer of the opposition outfit. He founded Ghetto TV, an online platform that helped move Bobi Wine’s message in his 2021 presidential race.
In his announcement yesterday, Kato said he had fallen out with the NRM because President Museveni refused to fund his project that was meant to help Kampala ghetto dwellers.
The project involved erecting high-mast flood lights in the major city ghettos to rid them of darkness.
Kato said this initiative had been successfully implemented in neighboring Kenya in Kibera, the world’s biggest slum as well as other parts of South Africa where it proved essential in fighting crime.
Kato said President Museveni had liked his idea and promised to fund it, but three years down the road, nothing had come to fruition.