{"id":51080,"date":"2024-07-25T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/museveni-says-he-is-ready-to-participate-in-patriotic-anti-corruption-protests\/"},"modified":"2024-07-25T14:52:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T14:52:57","slug":"museveni-says-he-is-ready-to-participate-in-patriotic-anti-corruption-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/museveni-says-he-is-ready-to-participate-in-patriotic-anti-corruption-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Museveni says he is ready to participate in patriotic anti-corruption protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Museveni made the remarks on Thursday, July 25, 2024, while accusing \u201cimperialists\u201d of sponsoring the protests witnessed in the country on Tuesday, July 23, 2024.<\/p>\n

In a statement shared on social media, the Ugandan Head of State said he had received credible intelligence that the protests were sponsored. He warned that he won\u2019t allow \u201cimperialists\u201d to meddle with the internal affairs of Uganda.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll those involved should know that Uganda is not a neo-colony where those shallow schemes can be deployed,\u201d President Museveni stated.<\/p>\n

Museveni noted that organizers and participants of the demonstrations were \u201cplanning very bad things\u201d and the \u201cevidence in court will shock many\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose very bad things will come out in court when those arrested are being tried,\u201d Museveni said as he lauded the security forces for foiling the demonstrations.<\/p>\n

He argued that if the protests were patriotic, peaceful and coordinated with the police he would have been the first to join.<\/p>\n

The President contrasted the failed protest with a past anti-corruption march in 2019 organized by Ugandan military officer Lt. Col. Edith Nakalema, saying he was ready to participate in a similar exercise.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the year 2019, Nakalema organized us and we marched from the city Square through Kampala Road to Jinja Road and went to Kololo. So many people were there- Bishops, Soldiers, Wanainchi, etc.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026Nakalema can co-ordinate with the genuine anti-corruption fighters for a similar effort, especially on a Sunday,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He, however, emphasized that heavily populated suburbs in the country should never be used for demonstration as they will \u201cdamage the little wealth creation that our people are painstakingly building up\u201d.<\/p>\n

More than 70 youths accusing members of parliament of graft were arrested on Tuesday during a march to parliament. <\/p>\n

The protesters stormed the streets of Kampala after drawing inspiration from weeks of youth-led protests in Kenya that forced President William Ruto to dissolve his cabinet and withdraw proposed tax hikes.<\/p>\n

The Ugandan Head of State had warned against such demonstrations, saying those behind the plans were “playing with fire”.<\/p>\n

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Uganda\u2019s President Yoweri Museveni now says he is ready to participate in anti-corruption protests in the country, but only if they are patriotic and coordinated with the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000073183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-51080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000073183,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/231019120648-yoweri-museveni-120421.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/231019120648-yoweri-museveni-120421.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/231019120648-yoweri-museveni-120421.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/231019120648-yoweri-museveni-120421.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/231019120648-yoweri-museveni-120421.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/231019120648-yoweri-museveni-120421.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000073183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51080"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=51080"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=51080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}