The reward for sin is death. But even though Museveni has wronged Ugandans in many sheer unintelligible ways, even though he has crippled the economy, murdered Ugandans, and monopolised power, God has not taken him yet; instead, He has punished him with an avaricious son, who is worse than death itself. 

While Museveni, for more than forty years, has cloaked his atrocities in a cloth of democracy, compromise, peace and prosperity, his son, Muhoozi, has unveiled the very secrets the senile man has hidden all this long. After all, the apple does not fall too far from the tree; and no dog ever fathers a rabbit. Muhoozi is a reflection of his father, Museveni.

Muhoozi Kainerugaba is the Chief of Defence Forces, a role he ascended to not because he is competent enough but because he is Museveni’s son, and ever since, he has used his position to intimidate, abduct or murder whoever does not agree with him ideologically, even though he is advertently aware that he is bereft of ideology. 

Muhoozi has become his father’s gun, and now Museveni does not have to shoot directly—Muhoozi does it for him. But this has come with an index of unprecedented consequences. The son has created more enemies—both ideological and political—for his father than he initially had, and he has united Ugandans—victims of the situation—because those he has not murdered, tortured, or vilified, he has detained without charge or trial.

Sadly, a group of self-seekers, who are equally devoid of empathy and acumen, have presented Muhoozi as their next president, and are determined to kill or debase anyone who wakes them up from such a nightmare. Truth be told, Muhoozi, unlike his father, is unfit to even run a village savings group. He has not been shaped by fire, and he is detached even from the basic human realities. Besides, he is a mere child, even at 52. He thrives on flattery and suffers from verbal diarrhoea.

Lately, Ugandans have been cursing after a conscientious soldier, Lt Mabongo, exposed the handiwork of the Ugandan security organs, whose job is less about protecting Ugandans and their properties and more about abducting, torturing, and dehumanising them. 

Lt Mabongo, previously attached to the UPDF and Defence Intelligence and Security, leaked a video of the so-called ‘basement’, revealing several torture victims, some of whom could not even walk on their own, victims who have been missing for months, notably Sam Mugumya, a poet, activist and former aide to Dr Kizza Besigye, who is also in detention without charge.

After Mabonga, who is now in hiding, exposed the video of the basement with torture victims, security organs, which had previously denied ever holding Sam Mugumya, came out, through their mouthpiece, Chris Magezi, to condemn Lt Mabonga for being a traitor, and even denied such victims of torture and the basement ever existing. UPDF, as a country’s army, has once again failed to keep its obligations—protecting Ugandans—when a citizen goes missing, and they are unaware of his whereabouts. This is incompetence. But one thing is clear: the UPDF has mastered the art of lying; they even denied ever holding Kizza Besigye, but they still brought him to court for his trial. 

According to Magezi, Mabonga is a criminal whom they are yet to arrest and charge in court; but this excuse is only to cover up their atrocities. But to Ugandans, Mabonga is a hero—Matigari—a man who has given up his life to expose the rot in the country’s security organs. 

Sam Mugumya was abducted by unidentified gunmen from a hotel in Mbarara, Uganda, on 26 August, 2025, after he had returned from exile in Zambia, where he had settled having served 8 years in Ndolo Military Prison on charges of illegal entry into the Democratic Republic of Congo and organising a rebellion against the Ugandan government. 

Of course, many people and organisations made some noise, demanding the unconditional release of Sam Mugumya, but this noise only fell on deaf ears, as Uganda under Museveni, and with his son as the overseer of torture chambers and safe houses, which in fact are unsafe, has no regard for human rights. 

They expropriated Sam of his life, so that he cannot even take care of his ailing mother, and that right can never be reversed—Sam will never be Sam again; they maimed him, broke his bones, and now he has to start learning to walk, like a baby. Sam Mugumya’s videos circulating on social media are grim; he is malnourished, dejected, and even though he has always fought back to his legs, he is frail this time round.

Amidst Magezi’s concoction of lies, concealing what patriotic Mabonga exposed, Muhoozi Kainerugaba came out and admitted that he is holding Sam Mugumya and that he is going to shoot him to death, confirming the very truth they have concealed all along regarding the whereabouts of Sam Mugumya.

“People are feeling sorry for Mugumya’s legs? I am going to shoot him to death,” drunk Muhoozi tweeted on 2 October.

But Muhoozi is not just going to kill Mugumya; he has already killed him. He has killed his future. He has stripped him of his rights. He has killed his body by torturing him. He has killed his voice. And if Uganda were a normal country, Muhoozi would be hanged for dehumanising Mugumya for his truth and politics. People like him have no place in a normal society—they should either be dead or isolated. 

Muhoozi is bloodthirsty, but we hope he can still release Sam Mugumya, and may this be an awakening to all Ugandans that the country is indeed dead, and that no one can ever save them from Museveni and his family unless they put down the belt of peace and wear one of defiance. May Ugandans learn to confront Museveni’s insolence and idiocy; and may the wells of hunger for justice flow through their hearts. Until then, Muhoozi will continue to dehumanise Ugandans.