The newly formed liberation organisation the Freedom and Unity Front (FUF) has said that there are no peaceful means left for removing president Museveni from power.

According to the “The London Evening Post,” the recently formed Ugandan Freedom and Unity Front (FUF) tells Ugandans and the world community at large that the death of the rule of law in Uganda has virtually foreclosed any peaceful avenue of removing the 27-year old dictatorial regime of President Yoweri Museveni.

At a press conference at the London School of Economics where the organisation launched its manifesto, the FUF told the world audience that having bribed and intimidated the country’s parliamentarians in changing the constitution and removing term limits, and given that Uganda has never had a peaceful transition since independence, that decision to amend the constitution so as to allow Museveni to remain in power for as long as he wants, simply meant that a peaceful change of leadership in Uganda is no longer feasible.

The FUF manifesto, lists 14 points that expose what has taken place in Uganda since Museveni came to power in January 1986 and it accuses Museveni of reneging on promises to the people of Uganda that he would put into place a constitution that would remove what Museveni himself at that time called Africa’s major problem; rulers that want to overstay in power.

The FUF manifesto exposes that president Museveni has made Uganda his personal state, just as the Belgium’s King Leopold did in 1885 when he made the then Congo Free State which later became two countries, Congo Brazzaville and now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) his personal property.

The FUF charges that by removing presidential term limits in Uganda, President Museveni not only made a mockery of the ideals for which those that fought alongside him in the 1980s bush war had sacrificed their lives for, but also showed that his intentions were to do away with institutional checks on power so that he could entrench himself in power as a dictator.
The Manifesto reveals how State House, the official residence and office of Ugandan president has now been turned into “the hub and fountain of corruption” from which Museveni removes sacks of money to take with him on tours around the country so that he can bribe people to support him.

It further shows how President Museveni has “bred and nurtured despair” in all sectors of the country except among those close to him. In the same manifesto, the FUF included how Museveni ordered the elimination of “real or imagined rivals, associates of opponents and those perceived not to support him” like his former Energy Minister Dr Andrew Kayiira, the former commander of the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces, Maj. Gen James Kazini, former Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, Brig Nobel Mayombo and former National Resistance Movement (NRM) MP Cerinah Nebanda and how the fear of being eliminated by President Museveni has not spared his own cabinet ministers who, according to the FUF manifesto, “live in terminal fear of being poisoned” on Museveni’s.

It shows how and why President Museveni has curtailed freedom of association” through the Public Order Management Bill and how he has unleashed “a system of terror on the media because of his fear that they would expose his misrule.

The manifesto warns that land grabbing in Uganda is threatening a civil war in which people will fight to get their land back and that the millions of unemployed youth in the country is likely to be another source of instability.
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