President Yoweri Museveni has blasted social media critics who have taken to social media to attack Speaker Anita Among.
Museveni described the critics as puppets and traitors who are serving the interests of ‘bad’ foreigners.
“Our problem is not Anita Among or MPs, it’s the traitors who are working for foreigners. Those are the real traitors. They are not mistake-makers, or learners who need advice, they are outright traitors,” Museveni said.
This, he said, while addressing a rally at Emokor Grounds in Bukedea where he had gone to officially open Bukedea Teaching Hospital and Bukedea College of Health Sciences. Both institutions are owned by Speaker Among.
For the last two weeks, social media has been awash with unsubstantiated information from a syndicated group of activists regarding Parliament expenditures and accountability under the hashtag #UgandaParliamentExhibition. According to the President, the motive of the activists is ill-bent to cast Speaker Among in bad light as a corrupt, extravagant and hated leader.
Museveni said the activists behind this social media exhibition are European puppets who must be exposed. He said intelligence services are monitoring their activities.
“They work for bad foreigners, homosexuals, imperialists who want Africa to be enslaved again. So I am monitoring them through intelligence service. How can you talk so much about Anita Among, how about those who are working with foreigners? We are going to expose those traitors,” he said.
Museveni lectured the critics about the law of separation of powers which he said has been manifested well in Among’s era.
“…But for people who don’t understand, they take separation of powers to mean separation from the country as if you don’t belong to the country. That is dangerous. When Anita Among came, she now works closely with the whole system. That is why you don’t hear standoffs. Therefore, I salute Anita Among,” he said.
“Whatever she may not know I will tell her because we are all here, we all live here. So, putting Anita Among on social media means there is something wrong with you.”
