Get ready for change now, Gen Sejusa tells Busoga

Gen David Ssejusa addresses mourners at the funeral of Yokosani Musenja, father of DP’s deputy youth leader Moses Bigirwa (R) at Kagulu Sub-county in Buyende District at the weekend. PHOTO BY MOSES MUTAKA

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BUYENDE. The former Coordinator of Intelligence Services, Gen David Sejusa, has called on the people of Busoga sub-region to stop supporting the ruling NRM party “blindly” and get ready for change.
Gen Sejusa, who is rallying support for the Opposition to dislodge President Museveni come 2016 claimed that Mr Museveni and his party are facing defeat in 2016.
Gen Sejusa made the call last Thursday while speaking in Budoola village in Kagulu Sub-county, Buyende District, during the burial of Mr Yokosani Musenja at the weekend.
The deceased is the father of the deputy youth leader of the Opposition Democratic Party (DP) Mr Moses Bigirwa. “You are here ever chanting NRM slogans and taking pride in the yellow T-shirts that you are dressed in yet on some days you go on empty stomachs while others are eating juicy things,” he said.
Gen Sejusa, who was introduced as the chief mourner, made the remarks in response to the actions of a group of NRM supporters who were clad in the party’s yellow colours and kept on showing him the thumbs up sign.
The group also called on him to rejoin President Museveni and the NRM instead of trying to take the country on a track of political unrest. Gen Ssejusa lashed out at the ruling NRM accusing it of deeply stratifying the Ugandan society and widening the gap between the rich and the poor.
He hit back at the group of NRM members, saying they are only remembered during elections. He accused Mr Museveni of fueling corruption, nepotism and individualism while hypocritically singing about the need for patriotism.
“President Museveni has no love for Uganda but instead has kept on stealing money from Uganda no wonder he is among the 50 richest men in the world,” he said without illustrating the claims

Stop making noise
Gen Sejusa encouraged the people of Busoga to move out of what he described as the politics of “noise making” and being fans of a government, which does not care about the region and fight for their power and authority.
Former presidential adviser, Hajji Nasser Sebagala, who was also one of the mourners, also called on the people to rally behind the Opposition.