Odrek Rwabwogo’s poster mesmerizes Ugandans while others are puzzled

Odrek Rwabwogo poster depicting him as the next President of Uganda appeared on various groups on WhatsApp. The poster has since mesmerized Ugandans while others are puzzled.

Many who saw the poster sighed, saying that was it not conflicting with what was overheard in the corridors of power? Reports in the corridors of power claim that the first son Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba is the next on the queue of power.

This poster leaves many disturbing questions on the minds of Ugandans. First, who is behind it? Secondly, has succession issue been resolved?  However, the truth is that the existence of this poster shows some individuals are flaunting Odrek Rwabwogo.

Information available shows  that Odrek Rwabwogo was born on September 17, 1969, in Uganda, went to a nearby primary school, then on to Rwampara for his secondary school at Bujaga and later to Mbarara for high school in a new makeshift private secondary school in 1988.

Rwabwogo is among the new blood added to the small list of the president’s special advisors. He is  married to Patience Museveni, the second eldest daughter of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tubuhaburwa.

He has lived at his Bwesharire farm for the last 47 years and raised his children there too. The additional name of ‘Bwesharire’ on the farm is of the ‘ Abahwezhu’ clan from which he comes from in Ankole.

Bwesharire is the great-great-grandfather of them all who led them out of the old Mpororo kingdom wrangles to the present day rich and lush Sheema district in the greater Bushenyi, western Ankore. He was a good leader, a calm negotiator, a good listener and a fighter.

Many of his relatives still live in Sheema. Within 10 years of settling on the land, Tomosi and Erina became one of the largest sellers of matooke (Bananas of all kinds), fruits and Vegetables. They also had a small herd of cows averaging 80-100 and were simple, comfortable Christians resisting the pressure of the world to conform.

In 1997, the farm was expanded when he finished school (he was fortunate to go to a competitive Makerere University then and study economics and political science and later took a scholarship to the University of Wales Cardiff to study Media and journalism) before beginning the fencing, paddocking and putting separations of acreage from land for animal rearing and crop and fruits growing. In a way, a sense of Specialization begun to take root for the farm to make sense.

He met Patience Museveni in 2000 and got married in 2002 and soon after, in 2002, as second-generation owners of the farm, his wife and him begun the improvement of the animal breed from long-horned Ankore cows that give less milk to second category cross breeds, especially of the Dutch Friesian and Holstein type. This, our entire area of farmers were largely doing the same to take advantage of the milk market that had become clear, starting around 1994.