{UAH} Nail in Mwenda's Microcephally

     Quote 'THIS IS FOR THE CHILDREN BORN IN THE 90S WHO DON'T KNOW MWENDA
Mwenda was a 23-year-old young man who bust into a media scene like a crocodile leaving an egg shell. In the mid-nineties when radical and 'bearded' journalists like Obbo and Oguttu were brutally critical of this regime's sectarian and misleading policies, Mwenda was the only kid playing alongside them. Around that time, Mwenda wrote mind boggling articles that, left the Obbo's look like amateurs in the struggle for freedom. Mwenda earned himself love, popularity, respect and fear within the regime and the opposition.
The regime feared Mwenda more than it did Obbo and Oguttu combined. At one time, Mwenda single handily interviewed Uganda's first prime minister, Milton Obote who was in exile in Zambia. This story shook the regime to the core. Then, Mwenda attacked the regime's polices, its institutions, leaders and supporters without mercy. Together with Obbo, he challenged the law on sedition and won. In fact, it was safer for the regime handlers to meet Kony rebels than being interviewed by Mwenda. Mwenda was combative, aggressive, forceful and brutally bare in his writings. He was loud and very articulate. He never lost an argument.
In the monitor where he worked, editors and reporters feared Mwenda. His views were regarded as correct. No editor would dare refuse to run a story that Mwenda wrote. He had a column. He moderated a talk show. He wrote feature stories. Any big story had Mwenda's by line. He became some kind of cult in the Monitor. So when he accuses the pro-democracy campaigner for championing a cult, Mwenda had a cult personality at Monitor.
In the early 2000s, Mwenda continued through his so called reliable sources to expose the regime's alleged rot in the military and government. Then, when Monitor started a radio station, Mwenda earned himself a program called Andrew Mwenda live. In this show, guests were 'roasted', humiliated and harassed. At one time, the political officer in this regime had to restrain Mwenda when the later made very wild allegations regarding the helicopter crash of South Sudan revolutionary leader, John Garang. The regime arrested Mwenda. He spent a few days in the prison. Then, he bounced back with the so called prison diaries in attempt to expose the so called rot.
Mwenda continued to build his cult personality at the monitor. He wanted to be bigger than the paper and the radio. At one time, when Aghan couldn't tolerate his conduct anymore, Mwenda presented a long emotional resignation letter. In his letter, Mwenda paraphrased the words of South African revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela claiming that, if needs be he would accept to die for ideas he holds dear. Of course, he also blamed the regime for putting Aghan on pressure to sack him over the so called critical stories. The regime denied this allegation.
Out of the Monitor, Mwenda opened his magazine, the independent. Here, he continued to feed the public with stories from the so called classified intelligence. Even then, the circulation figures of the magazine didn't break even. In fact, critics said Mwenda became more popular than his magazine. Although he positioned his magazine to be critical of the regime, it said little about championing the cause for the freedom of the opposition. He was also very sympathetic with the Rwanda government.
Then enter the social media. He balanced his time as social media commentator, expert on great lakes region, critic of the regime etc. Mwenda earned himself titles of the old man of the clan. He was invited to radio and TV shows to comment on current affairs. At this point, he continued to use his old strategies of expose, shame, attack and undermine. Little did he know most of his strategies were no longer applicable in the information age era. He was growing old. Other young and critical youth came with better ideas. This young people had opportunity to get information anywhere and anyhow.
The old man of the clan continued to swing in the wildness of out dated lines like "next week, we shall expose them. We have information. According to highly placed sources etc". In desperation to remain relevant the old man of the clan turned against the hand that made him- the opposition. He starts smear campaign against pro-democracy campaigners like Kizza Besigye etc. He accused the people's leader of leading a cult party. He attacks peace loving and freedom fighters are radical extremists. Mwenda intensified his campaign from attacking the regime to attacking leaders of peace, justice and liberty. Little is know, why the old man of the clan turned his guns on pro democracy campaigners.
In blindness, Mwenda attacks social media spirit called Tom Voltaire Okwalinga. As an old man, he should have known human beings don't attack spirits. The spirits of TVO, expose Mwenda as sick and a liar. The most feared journalist, the man who had highly placed sources, a renown great lakes expert who ate with the presidents falls flat on his own sword with out any iota of resurrecting his 22-year-old integrity. If he had hopes of winning favor from the regime, the old man of the clan lost miserably. No one in the opposition will trust him anymore. So where does this leave our old of the clan?
For 22 years in active Journalism, a career of young man comes crushing down like a park of cards. No journalist will be trusted, if society concludes his word is a lie! As Mwenda enters the evening years of his life and exiting the stage of journalism, his integrity has been put on the spot line. When he retires in the valleys of Fort portal and takes a rest under the mango trees, Mwenda will recall indeed nothing can stop truth, justice and freedom from flowing. Truth travels slowly like river Nile but it will still arrive safely in the Mediterranean Sea.
OGARAM'

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