KAMPALA– President Museveni sounded an ominous massage about the fate of youth in custody over Tuesday’s Anti-Corruption march to Parliament.
In an address given in a series of post on X, formerly Twitter, Mr Museveni thanked security forces for foiling the widely mobilised march and citizens who stayed away from it.
But he was ominous in discussion the fate of those arrested during the peaceful march, saying some of the organisers and participants were planning “very bad things” against the people of Uganda.
“Those very bad things will come out in court when those arrested are being tried,” he said.
“It is possible, that some of the participants did not know of the planned foreign funding and the planned bad things. That is why they should have listened to the police advice, not to go on with the demonstration. But they rubbished the police advice.”
Museveni’s warning comes on the heels of the ongoing anti-corruption demonstrations which started on Tuesday and over 60 anti-graft crusaders have been jailed, facing prosecution for being “common nuisance, idle and disorderly.”
On Thursday, security officers including soldiers and anti- riot police, some in camouflage uniforms, were still out in force to contain demonstrators as March to Parliament anti-graft protestors returned to Kampala streets.
Museveni said that “foreign forces were responsible for the youth-led demonstrations that have rocked the country. He outlined the threats posed by the demonstration.
“That demonstration had two bad elements: funding from foreign sources that are always meddling in the internal affairs of Africa for the last 600 years – slave trade, colonialism, neo-colonialism, genocide, economic exploitation,” he said.
Museveni identified two primary concerns with the planned protest. The first, he claimed, was foreign funding from entities with a history of meddling in African affairs, including the slave trade, colonialism, neo-colonialism, genocide, and economic exploitation.
“The second element was that some of the authors and participants of the demonstrations were planning very bad things against the people of Uganda,” Museveni said. He said that even the police who were charging those arrested with causing disorder and being a nuisance did not appear to know the gravity of the matter.
