Stop calling Museveni your boss - Besigye
Dr Kizza Besigye receives money from his supporters during his rally in Kayunga Town last Friday. PHOTO by FRED MUZAALE
Kayunga. Contenders for FDC presidential flag Kizza Besigye has asked the electorate to stop calling President Museveni their boss.
By virtue of his position, Dr Besigye said, the President is supposed to serve citizens as per their wish.
“Mr Museveni is your servant because you are the ones who pay for the food he eats, the fuel he uses in his car, the clothes he wears and even the salary he gets. Why do you continue calling him your boss?” Dr Besigye asked hundreds of people who turned up at his rally in Kayunga Town last Friday.
He added: “However, because you think he is your boss, every time he comes here, most of you even quake, while calling him, our boss, our boss.”
However, head of media and public relations at NRM secretariat Rogers Mulindwa said Dr Besigye was free not to call the President his boss, but has no authority to force others not to do so.
“Is that something he should tell people? If he doesn’t want to call the President his boss, he is free not to do because it does not add anything after all,” he said.
Dr Besigye, who emphasised the need for Ugandans to regain their power, said as long as citizens don’t do away with fear and build self-confidence, they will not cause regime change.
“Because the voters in Kampala City lack power, is the reason why those with power removed the Lord Mayor whom they voted overwhelmingly,” he said
He scoffed at government’s plan to fight poverty among Ugandans, saying he gets disturbed when he sees poor women trekking long distances to receive goats and piglets distributed under the National Agricultural Advisory Services (Naads).
Dr Besigye is contesting together with Maj Gen Mugisha Muntu (FDC president) to become party flag bearer in the 2016 presidential elections and consequently President of Uganda.
Fourth time lucky?
If endorsed, Dr Besigye will be making a fourth attempt at the presidency, having contested in 2001, 2006, and 2011 and lost to President Museveni. Dr Besigye went to the Supreme Court to challenge Museveni’s 2001 and 2006 victories. In both cases, the Court ruled that although there had been rigging, Besigye failed to provide sufficient evidence that the rigging was significant enough to alter the final result. He has since vowed never to go back to Court and promised he would “appeal to the people of Uganda.”
