You can’t ban witchcraft, otherwise it will burn you

Mr Godfrey Mutabazi, the executive director of Uganda Communications Commission, has a way of doing things. Even in a formal communication, the tone and delivery of the text is always angry and threatening.
His latest engagement with radios and TV stations was a threat to close them if they don’t stop hosting witches on their platforms. The challenge of this directive or threat is how he will deal with religious leaders, whose messages on these platforms also border on fraud.
Mr Mutabazi knows that these pastor guys will hide behind the façade of freedom of worship to challenge him. My advice is that the people, who are trusted to shape the destiny of their country by electing the President should be left to make choices with their money. And in the unfortunate event that there are issues related to obufere (fraud), then the police would come in.
Bwana Mutabazi, even if you chase ‘us’ (witches) from your TVs and radios, you and your government will still have to deal with the phenomenon that drives these things; because it will remain. And by the way, we could still create a colony on social media.
I am called the ‘Witch of Kiburara’ because I have made some near-perfect predictions. My specialisation is security, government and politics.
So, if Mr Godfrey Mutabazi does not change his ways, I may be tempted to call on the gods to punish him. Yes, I may ask the gods to guide the appointing authority not to renew his contract. You ban us, we burn you.
A comedian in the name of Isaac Kudu was excited by one of my predictions. Given the near accuracy of the prediction, he brought a business proposal: For a fee, we predict results for those who bet on football matches. We would use radios and tvs adverts.
Below is the prediction that excited Isaac Kudu. It was about the rumoured feud between Gen Kale Kayihura and Maj Gen Henry Tumukunde. It was published in this column on Saturday June 25, 2016.

Please read on: The appointment of Lt Gen Henry Tumukunde, a ‘securitised personality’, as the Minister for Security is curious. He will superintend over the two near-dead civil intelligence services: ISO and ESO, which are likely to resurrect.
But this expected resurrection would be coming at a time the police is very assertive in the security and intelligence community; so assertive that even the UPDF is seen as playing second best to the police.
So, we are likely to witness a clash between the police and civil intelligence services. The police will be ‘expected’ to retreat to their traditional mandate of preventing and fighting crime. They (police) will be expected to leave security (in the traditional sense of the word) to the real owners of the word ‘security’. But which police will retreat? IGP Kayihura won’t let go without a fight; neither will Tumukunde cede.
Unfortunately, unlike my beloved Uganda Police Special Branch (which was merely wished away), ISO and ESO cannot be thrown out by an administrative instrument; because they were established under an Act of Parliament.
But my trouble with Henry Tumukunde is that he looks like someone more disposed to act as a Service Chief than a Cabinet minister. He may want to supervise (manage?) the two services the way IGP Kale Kayihura does his thing.
So, we are likely to have the Minister for Security physically securing the public from a fight between boda boda riders (like IGP Kayihura always does).
And if there were to be any clash between Police and the Civil Intel Services, our Tumukunde will have to court the UPDF. You get?

Mr Bisiika is the executive editor of East African Flagpost.