It is scary how France Museveni’s old writings are now becoming true.
Try as hard to ignore this facebook-famous France Museveni guy, I just can’t get to terms with the fact that a lot of things he said and I dismissed as cheap BDP propaganda have come to prove true. I am still not comfortable allowing myself to believe the things he writes but I cannot ignore the fact that I have been one of the people he made to eat humble pie when a lot of the things he wrote we swiftly dismissed. I write this because this time I think things have gone too far. The day he wrote that Ndaba Gaolathe was in South Africa being bought by Ian to dump talks with BCP and work with the UDC, I thought Museveni had gone bananas. With what I thought and believed of Ndaba and Mmolotsi, I immediately dismissed such talk as desperate propaganda, believing that under no circumstances would Ndaba and Wynter choose the UDC over the BCP. Even when we saw Duma Boko post a picture of himself with Ndaba, and Museveni labelled it a side moment at the meeting of Ndaba and Ian, I dismissed the Museveni post as another desperate act to link the picture with Ian. Although at the time I was not so sure about the meeting between Ian and Gaolathe, I was so sure no one could make Ndaba join hands with the UDC. The Museveni chap had repeatedly written that Ndaba would soon dump the BCP for UDC. It just never bothered me as I was convinced AP and UDC would never work together. When long after all that time talk emerged that indeed AP was dumping the BCP for talks with UDC, I was left numb. I just did not believe it was happening and a part of me did not want the matter to become true because that would make me change my mind about Museveni for his future posts and others. I was in denial that what I dismissed as utter nonsense from Museveni was happeing. Not Gaolathe Ndaba. It just did not make sense. I had heard in the past these men from the Alliance for Progressives (AP) speak some sense and conviction about the UDC on issues of democracy, governance and tolerance among others, and that they would not even work with a party that was selling Botswana to the highest bidder. I recall at the launch of Gaolathe on the eve of the 2019 general elections in Gaborone West how Mmolotsi emphasised the need to stay clear of Boko and Moti, saying they would rather lose elections than be seen to be in cohorts with a Boko who was selling the country to a controversial South African. Thinking of all these, I could not bring myself to believing Museveni when he said we should watch the space as the way had been paved for AP to be under the UDC. We were warned that they would come up with some reason to make us believe that working with the BCP would be a mistake. I have really tried to convince myself that Phenyo Butale and his mates have a valid point to cross over to the UDC, but something just does not aad up; or maybe what confuses me is the fact that during the time I thought the AP and BCP talks were at an advanced stage, Museveni was already saying AP was negotiating with UDC and Ian, and I did not believe one bit of it. I try to comfort myself everyday that maybe it is just a concidence. The reason all this scares me is that there are other things Museveni has said and we dismissed, yet they came to be true in the end. Like when he said Unity Dow was just passing time she would soon announce she is leaving the BDP. As I write this, I hear Dow has called a press conference to discuss the future of her political career. I am scared
she might just say something that would make me trust Museveni’s posts against my will. He has foe weeks been writing that Dow is working with Khama to undermine Masisi and soon Dow will resign from the BDP. Museveni has long said Ian was working towards forming a new political party through which he will join the UDC as one of the affiliate party presidents and hence a telling influence in the direction of the UDC, with the eventuality of returning to the presidency. It is now an open secret that a new party is emerging and said to be associated with Ian. It is happening. Now should we then conclude that indeed Ian is going to take control once the UDC is in power, as Museveni has been saying? After Ian fled to South Africa, this Museveni chap said his brother and other family members would soon follow. We dismissed that but soon they were gone. This Museveni chap was all over telling us about the deals Boko had with Moti once the UDC took over power and we dismissed what he said as some propaganda crap. Now a renowned investigative publication in South Africa has hinted at all those things in a report they did on Moti. We now learn Ndaba, Butale, Mokgware and company have been promised all manner of things to work with the UDC. This after Museveni had been dismissed for saying such ‘crap’ again. Trust me, I am not here to praise Museveni. I do not wish to sanitise the things he says. Neither am I concerned if he is a DIS operative or not. What bothers me is the things he keeps saying are going to happen and they do. It bothers me now that he has said other things I do not wish to see happen, but I am scared. I pray that Boko and company do everything to ensure Ian does not have a sniff of power. Museveni suggests that Ian’s fight for entering the UDC as President, whether of BPF or a splinter party, is so that he sits in the top table of decision making once UDC takes over, and that soon he would demand the position of Vice Presidency, and eventually President. Aaargh, this can’t be true. France Museveni is lying through the teeth! Is can’t!