{UAH} WILL HAJJI SEBAGGALA TAKE COMMAND OF PEOPLE POWER'S YOUTH BRIGADE IN KAMPALA?

WILL HAJJI SEBAGGALA TAKE COMMAND OF PEOPLE POWER'S YOUTH BRIGADE IN KAMPALA?

CHANGE OF GUARDS - The former Mayor of Kampala, Hajji Nasser Ntege Sebaggala has picked Nomination Forms for Kampala City Mayorship race under the People Power pressure group. The People Power political platform is a new pressure group led by the youthful Musician turned politician, Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine. People Power's leader is intending to contest for the presidency of Uganda from Museveni. Bobi Wine intends to galvanize People Power's support base on the youth constituency. Hajji Ssebagala allied with the opposition led by Dr. Kizza Besigye during the 2001 general elections.  Ssebagala mobilised the urban youth, more especially in the capital city of Kampala, under the theme of "Hajji Alagidde" (Hajji had directed). The said directive was premised on an open threat that should Museveni rig the elections, Ssebagala was to lead a Youth Brigade to storm State House and chase Museveni out. Just a day before the polls, Museveni tasked Gen. Ssejusa to convince Ssebagala abandon the plan. Indeed, Hajji Sebaggala made concessions and abandoned hisYouth Brigade at the last hour.

In return, Museveni appointed Ssebagala a cabinet Minister but the appointment was turned down by the Parliamentary Appointments Committee on academic grounds. Instead, Museveni appointed Ssebagala a Presidential Advisor. In January 2015, Ssebagala resigned and declared that he was returning to opposition. At a press conference, Ssebagala said;
      "I wish to express my regret to all my supporters for having changed course from my original stand against dictatorship and joined it. This will never happen again. I am not making any mistake to return home. I supported President Museveni on principle and since he has failed, there is no reason I should continue supporting him now."

Ssebagala's one page letter of resignation addressed to Museveni on January 5, 2015, said;
      "I joined you, Your Excellency, on the understanding that things in the country would change for the better. Unfortunately, matters of the economy, Democratic government and accountability have got worse."

You will recall, this development came at the time Gen. Ssejusa had just returned from exile and was politically very vibrant.  It was thought that Hajji Ssebagala was to join Ssejusa but ever since the General was neutralized, the former has since been inactive.

The big question is; will Hajji Sebaggala revive and take command of his defunct Youth Brigade in the obvious event that Museveni will rig the forthcoming polls!!!  Will Ssebagala not once again abandon People Power at the last hour!!!!
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Here below, we reshare an article we wrote 7yrs ago.
https://changeofguards.blogspot.com/2013/09/tinyefuza-saved-museveni-friom.html

Friday, 20 September 2013
TINYEFUZA SAVED MUSEVENI FRIOM SSEBAGALA'S YOUTH BRIGADE.
The former controversial Mayor of Kampala City, Naser Ntege Ssebagala supported the opposition against Museveni during the 2001 presidential elections. Ssebagala had defeated two of the Museveni sponsored candidates for the mayoral race. Ssebagala had won on the ticket of the traditional anti-Museveni Kampala dwellers more especially the urban unemployed youth and the common low income people.

During the controvercial 2001 elections in which Dr. Besigye gave Museveni a tough challenge, Ssebagala was a symbol of opposition in Kampala city which proved to be an opposition stronghold. During the 1996 elections Kampala city had also demonstrated opposition to Museveni in favour of Paul Ssemwogerere. Then Captain Hudsom Mukasa - Muganda Commanding Officer of the then Mbuya based 7th Batallion had to be reprimanded when it was discoved that his unit was sympathetic to the opposition. Indeed as the Unit was ordered out Kampala, the convoy bemused residents when it chantet pro-opposition songs thus Ssemogerere gira ofuganda Museveni tumukoye.

During 2001 elections Naser Ssebagala while attendinding Hon Ken Lukyamuzi's wedding publicly predicted that the elections would end up in a rerun and then Museveni would loose. He warned that if Museveni refused to hand over power, he would be overthrown by peoples protests citing the case of Yugoslavia's Slobadan Milosevic. As the polling day drew nearer, it became clear that Mayor Ssebagala was busy mobilising his youth brigades in Kampala to storm the city with protests immediately after the resusts would show that Museveni had won. Museveni who was by then residing in the city centre panicked alot. At the time the Police had not yet become a branch of his NRA. His security detail was still manned by the somehow ethinically balanced PPU and had not yet detached itself from the mainstream Army. Above all Col Besigye had claimed that he had 90% support of the army and Museven had threatened to send him six feet underground. Museveni's intelligence estimates indicated that Mayor Nasser Ssebagala's plans of youth protests was a formidable threat. Museveni sanctioned Gen Tinyefuza to talk to Ssebagala with view of convicing him to abandon the youth protests. On the eve of the elections Tinyefuza drove to Ssebagala's residence in Bugolobi in the evening. After a lengthy meeting a deal was reached for the Lord Mayor to abandon the planned protests. Ssebagala without giving reason communicated to the youth who had been on standby to standdown. Museveni at the time breathed a sigh of relief but embarked on a long task of barricading himself against future popular protests.

Following the post 2011 election protests in Kampala, Museveni is hiding behind the cover of modernising the city to get rid of potential protesters. The desgination of Kampala as an autonomous Authority, the creation of the position of the Executive Director, undermining the Lord Mayor and plans to expand Kampala into the teritory of Buganda are all long term manouvers of recapturing Kampala city from being an opposition stronghold. The current controvercial moves to rid the city centre of vendors, bodaboda riders and the common urban unemployed youths coupled by preventive detention of opposition leaders are all desperate manouvers to disable their ease of mobility into an Arab Spring kind of resistance. Museveni believes that at the slightest blink of the eye, Dr. Besigye can lead protesters to take over the city centre hence the 24 hours security survallance around him.

Museveni's worry is that should such a scenarior arise, his security forces will quell it after killing hundreds of the protesters. In turn he will be made a subject of ICC indictment. Hower, if he succeeds in manipulating the AU into withdrawing from the ICC, he will have a free day in gruesomely comitting human rights violations unabetted. He is aware that he has already comitted indictable attrocities in Uganda. He is also aware that he is not yet spared from the ICC indictment over attrocities in the Congo thus the hasty championing of a withdrawing from the ICC by African countries. Criminal proceedings are never time bared. Gadafi survived the ICC but was indicted by God.

INFORMATION IS POWER.

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Rehema
Patriot in Kampala,East Africa:Assalamu Alaikum

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