{"id":53867,"date":"2025-04-14T13:27:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/motorcycle-taxi-rider-announces-presidential-bid-to-unseat-museveni-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T13:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:27:24","slug":"motorcycle-taxi-rider-announces-presidential-bid-to-unseat-museveni-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/motorcycle-taxi-rider-announces-presidential-bid-to-unseat-museveni-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle taxi rider announces presidential bid to unseat Museveni in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

80% of our economy is a “boda boda” economy which means we live in a hands to mouth economy. People leave their homes when they actually don\u2019t know whether they will earn something,\u201d Mawejje, 30 said.<\/p>\n

Describing his as a “boda boda” manifesto, he said the current setup of the country can only be referred to as a boda boda economy that he said pretends to grow steadily but \u201cgets stuck somewhere because everyone is in debts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are desperate to an extent of thinking that if they spend hours in betting clubs maybe God will do miracles. Government has reduced its valued tax payers to beggars where everyone thinks in someone\u2019s pocket,\u201d Mawejje said.<\/p>\n

He decried that youths who are vital in the development of any country are flying out for greener pasture leaving a generation that is not productive, and those who stay behind spend most of their times in discussing the \u201cPremier League\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have medicines in hospitals, police and military officers sleep in dilapidated units, roads are in a poor state and civil servants are paid pea nuts, not because Uganda is poor but because there are those who think they can eat anything that exists,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n

Mawejje said he aims to introduce a seven-point program that he said will liberate the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to tackle unemployment among youths, improve the health and education sectors, reduce the number of districts, constituencies, ministries, departments and agencies, put in place constitutional reforms to give voting rights to diaspora and prisoners and also clip the president\u2019s powers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"President<\/figure>\n
\"Francis<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the 2026 political fever continues to heat up, Francis Mawejje, a motorcycle taxi (boda boda) rider has announced his presidential bid to unseat the incumbent, President Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000085682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000085682,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-04-14_at_13.07_06.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-04-14_at_13.07_06.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-04-14_at_13.07_06.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-04-14_at_13.07_06.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-04-14_at_13.07_06.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-04-14_at_13.07_06.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53867","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\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000085682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53867"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53867"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}