Understanding the succession plans & MK Projects

If you want to understand the succession plans and MK Projects, you must read this first.

After this generation of President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement (NRM) cohorts; there is a new generation that has been, naturally and politically, nurtured to take up the mantle of businesses in Uganda, including politics.

It is natural because God has allowed it that way. In every big family here in Uganda, there is only one nurtured boy to take up assignments from the aging parents.

You begin with the first family; the family of President Yoweri Museveni. Lt. Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba is the only flaunted boy-child, reportedly nurtured to take up all assignments from his father, Mzee Museveni. The Ssabalwanyi might be having other boys, but Gen Muhoozi is the only bull exposed to Ugandans for the reasons well assumed. That is why you are seeing birthday parties and MK Projects.

Gen Salim Saleh’s eldest son Alexander Mukonzi Akandwanaho is the only flaunted boy-child among Gen Saleh’s children.

Anselm, a son of the four-time Presidential candidate, Kiiza Besigye and Winnie Byanyima, is also flaunted. No any child of Rtd Col Besigye is flaunted like Anselm.

Sam Kutesa’s son Ingah Kutesa who was recently appointed Oman’s Honorary Consul to Uganda is among the new cohorts.  Ingah is a businessman.

Late Bryan Bukenya was also on this arrangement, but fate had its role. The list goes on but the most important issue here is that gajja bigeleke empale teyita mumutwe. 

This is a principle that has led to the birth of MK Projects, which many believe aims at bringing MK as next president in this country, which started with birthday hashtags.

The birthday hashtag came with two others: #MK Projects and #MK2026. The MK Projects one has been around for almost a decade.

Museveni’s son is currently Commander of the Special Forces Command, a 10,000-strong battalion most recently deployed against supporters of Museveni’s presidential rival, Bobi Wine.

An army general, David Sejusa Tinyefuza coined the term in 2013, alleging that there was such a project, and senior army officers opposed to it were at risk of being assassinated.

Tinyefuza spent more than a year in self-imposed exile in Britain. But he was later was arrested for insubordination in 2016. Unrepentant, since 2014, he remains unretired but with no deployment.