Besigye: Uganda is led by mad people

Veteran opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye has told Ugandans they are being led by mad people.

A medical doctor by training, Dr Besigye has recently been giving his views on President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government’s handling of the Covid19 crisis.

Last week, he rebuked Ugandans, labelling them fools.

Besigye: Ugandans are very foolish and stupid people

And on June 21 morning, Besigye accused Museveni, to whom he was a personal physician in the bush war years, of having no Covid19 plan.

Besigye believes part of the escalation of Uganda’s Covid19 crisis emanated from the management of the 2021 presidential and parliamentary elections.

Ruling NRM party primaries had preceded the general elections, with both characterised by disregard of standard operating procedures in campaigns and polling days.

In May 2020, Museveni told NBS TV it would be insanity to hold polls when the Covid19 pandemic was still around.

“To have elections when the virus is still there… It will be madness,” the president was quoted as saying.

Yet the elections were held.

As has become normal in his Covid19 discussions in the media, Besigye has kept reminding Ugandans they are led by mad men.

“Mr Museveni said that if the pandemic was to persist till June, then it would be madness to hold an election,” Besigye noted while appearing on a morning show on Pastor Aloysius Bujjingo’s Salt TV.

“Ugandans should now learn that we have mad people running their country!”

Translation: Courtesy