Museveni is getting weak, says Besigye

While talking to the media on Tuesday, April 18 2023 at his offices on Plot 6 Katonga road in Kampala, Besigye, who was being accompanied by Forum for Democratic Change deputy vice-president for Buganda Region Erias Lukwago said the crisis in Uganda’s politics is severe, and that everyone is noticing President Museveni is weakening.

“The crisis in politics is severe and everyone is seeing that Museveni is getting weak and he will go whether he wants it or not,” he said.

Besigye added: “That's why his son is moving around being active contrary to the law with the MK movement, which people seem not to understand. In Uganda, we don't have an election, we have an auction. The highest bidder winners. The whole system is built on political corruption. President Museveni can't fight it because he started it.”

“Those around Museveni are worried about whether he will wake up. Their concern is about how to maintain the state capture. The objective of what we are doing is the need for a reset of the whole state to get it out of the state capture and then the restructuring will happen when ownership has been changed.”

He also gave his views on the current corruption scandal involving Government ministers who benefitted from the iron sheets meant for the Karamoja sub-region, saying that the arrested ministers are not the real thieves.

“The mabaati issue is one of the significant corruption scandals that is happening in this country. The people in mabaati were noticed because it was visible but those are not the real thieves,” he said.

“The state we are dealing with is a collapsed state. Even the police that has always been chasing us doesn't have fuel and papers to write on.”