Buganda Kingdom through the Minister in Charge of the Kingdom Parliament issues and special assignments in Premier’s Office Owekitiibwa Noah Kiyimba has updated the world on King Ronald Muwenda Mutebi’s sickness.

For weeks now, Buganda Kingdom administration led by Premier Charles Peter Mayiga has been under pressure from people on social media who demanded to see their King.

Others claim that the King has returned from abroad where he had gone to receive further medical attention but Mayiga doesn’t want him to appear before the public.

However, responding to the said allegation, Kiyimba on behalf of Owekitiibwa Israel Kitooke Kazibwe the Kingdom Information and Mobilization minister explained that King Ronnie is still abroad receiving medical care and he will address the public at the right time following the advice of his doctors.

“You know, the King himself warned us concerning people who claim they love the Kingdom so much. So we must be careful with such people because they are the ones on social media making such allegation,” Kiyimba said.

Mayiga informed the Kingdom that King Ronnie traveled abroad in March 2024 and it is the reason why he missed his 69^th birthday run and other Kingdom activities including the Buganda Kingdom clan football tournament.

However, there are voices within the Mengo establishment claiming that last week, Kabaka Mutebi returned back into the country and he is resting at his Banda palace.

King Ronnie’s health troubles started in 2020, and he was rushed to Kenya secretly.

Mayiga was forced to come out and clear the air. He told Baganda that their King was suffering from an allergy.

The King himself also blasted people for pronouncing him dead on social media and assured them that he is still around.

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni also intervened and King Ronnie was rushed to German to meet the specialized doctors who established that he is suffering from cancer.

Medical specialists from Kenya, Uganda, German, India, United Kingdom are all monitoring the King’s health condition.

Mayiga recently assured Baganda that everything is under control.

By Hadijjah Namagembe

Internal Affairs Senior Minister Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire has confirmed that President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has picked interest in and directed him to lead investigations into allegations that there is a group of people including police officers involved in and facilitating human trafficking of desperate Ugandans.

Otafiire revealed that investigations will be expanded not only to police officers but other Ugandans especially politicians since preliminary investigation have shown that they are the biggest beneficiaries from the vice.

Highly placed Security sources told theGrapevine that Museveni was briefed that a number of people connive with police officers who fake their arrests, undress and handcuff them and place them in police cells where they take their photos and record them on video crying for help.

This is presented as evidence of torture from Museveni’s government because of their support for the opposition.

Sources divulged that police officers not only stop at faking arrests and detention, they also fake police references and police bond papers showing that the said person has pending criminal charges in Uganda.

After getting police support, the said Ugandans connive with the opposition political parties especially National Unity Platform (NUP) who give them recommendation letters after paying some money which they use as evidence when they are applying for visas and other travel documents to go and seek political asylum in European countries, America and Canada among others.

Museveni was briefed that currently, Uganda is one of the leading countries when it comes to people asking for asylum based on hostile politics back home.

“The situation these police officers created in connivance with asylum seekers placed President Museveni’s government in bad light because it shows that Ugandans are not happy with his leadership and he is using a high hand to lead them,” a source said.

Maj. Gen. Otafiire also confirmed that human trafficking of Ugandans gives Uganda a bad name on the international scene and it is going to become very difficult for serious Ugandans who want to travel abroad for education, medication, research to be given documents to travel in those countries because of fears that they will disappear in those countries.

During the briefing, Museveni was given a detailed report narrating how former CBS radio presenter and comedian Patrick Mujuuka connived with police officers to get documents he used to secure a visa that helped him to go to the United States of America.

Sources claim that Museveni was told that Mujuuka alleged that his life was in danger because Museveni’s government wanted to finish him for being a staunch supporter who uses his radio position to promote National Unity Platform (NUP) and former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine).

“The explanation and documents helped him to get an interim stay in the United States and he is getting good money through doing a number of jobs,” a source said.

However, other sources at CBS radio said that Mujuuka decided to run to the United States because his job at CBS was threatened so he had to plan early before being fired permanently.

The issue of trafficking Ugandans comes at a time when former NUP Chief moblizer Sulaiman Kidandala is holed up in South Korea facing charges of trafficking Ugandans into South Korea.

If convicted, he is likely to be sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.

There is also a group of concerned citizens who petitioned the Canadian Premier Justine Trudeau to review the application filed by Ugandans who seek asylum based on political persecution claiming that many of the applications were based on false grounds.

Senior presidential advisor on media Joseph Tamale Mirundi also twisted the issue of human trafficking revealing that majority of Ugandans taken for greener pastures are sold to business people in different countries so that their internal organs are harvested and sold at a high price.

He revealed that Museveni is also investigating allegations that powerful people in his government in involved.

He explained that Museveni is going to be very tough on people who are trafficking Ugandans because for the last one year, he is on the drive of cleaning his name.

Such allegations have resulted into sanctioning of top government officials by United States, Canada, United Kingdom and other European countries.

Minister Otafiire said that the long arm of the law will catch any one involved in human trafficking of Ugandans and police officers will be expelled from the force with disgrace.

However, shadow foreign affairs Minister Muwada Nkunyingi rubbished Otafiire’s allegation that NUP is involved in human trafficking. He threatened that very soon, he will table on the floor of parliament the names of powerful government officials involved in the said crime.

He further explained that those government officials hide under labour exporting companies to traffic Ugandans and sell them into slavery abroad.

Ronald Muwenda Mutebi the Kabaka of Buganda recently warned youths to be very careful with people who entice them with ideas of going abroad to work.

The King warned that some of these people harbor bad intentions against them because they are only looking at how they can financially benefit from them.

By Sengooba Alirabaki

Men in Kiruhura district and the entire Ankole Sub Region are panicking and pleading with their girls of the soil not to resort to witchcraft as medicine to tame their partners’ sexual appetite.

The vice which can lead to sexually transmitted infections and diseases like cancer in men resulted from a phone audio recording where one of the girls of the soil who is married to a top junior minister in president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s government was discussing with her mother on how to execute the advice from the witch doctor to feed the minister with her pubic hair and nails.

In the recording, the soft spoken young lady was heard briefing her mother in Runyankole language on her recent travel to Iganga in Busoga where she went to see the witch doctor who gave her medicine to work on his man who she branded as a womanizer.

In the phone call, the woman revealed that her journey to Iganga kicked off early in the morning and she was driven in a posh car by a close relative who picked her at Lugongo, a long Kampala-Jinja road.

“Mummy the journey was tiresome but it seems that man works because immediately when I entered his shrine, he explained to me all my personal details from my childhood and why I was before him,” the minister’s wife narrated as mother assured her of how powerful the witchdoctor is.

She further revealed to mother how she paniced when the witch doctor directed her to remove all her clothes. She narrated that thought that he was going to rape her because they were only two in the shrine, but she accepted because she needed his services.

The minister’s wife further narrated that dressed in backcloths, the witch doctor started checking in his old polythene bags.

He removed some voodoo things and tied them in small clothes after mixing them with his saliva. He picked a razor blade and he started making small cutting on her body while smearing the voodoo mixer on the wounds ritualistically.

Surprisingly, her private parts were not also spared.

“I feel a lot of itching when the herbs mixed with the blood inside my body and he told me to be strong because we had just started the rituals. He also told me that the war is not easy because the man has also gagged himself spiritually,” she said.

She further explained that he performed other rituals on her and gave her some herbs to swallow. After, she told her to give him Shs500 shillings so that he can buy a new razor blade.

She narrated that because she did not have any money on her, she moved out of the shrine and picked the money from her relative who was seated in the car.

Upon returning to the shrine, the witch doctor insisted that the money should be hers because the rituals he was performing were for her.

She remained in the shrine naked, until the witch doctor come back, gave her a razor blade and directed her to cut her pubic hair and nails and after give them to him.

As she was performing the rite (of cutting the pubs and nails), the witchdoctor moved out and came back to the shrine with burning charcoal. He asked her for the pubic hair and nails and started burning them together.

After, he collected the ashes, put them in a cloth and directed her to put on her clothes. He them gave the ashes to her and directed her to make sure that she mixes them in the minister’s food and drinks before going to work and do the same thing when he comes back in the evening.

“He is done, I’m telling you mummy,” she boasted on the phone.

In 2021 the minister was introduced to his wife’s parents in Kiruhura but they later had a misunderstanding after she got information that he had other women with children including two who dragged him to police and court for neglecting them.

He used his influence in government to strangle the cases but he learnt his lesson and he is now taking care of them.

The Minister’s wife feels his marriage is threatened because of the many mistresses he has and he always travels with one of them whenever he travels abroad.

The official wife and her mother were badly condemned on different WhatsApp groups for resorting to witchcraft yet their family is a known religious family in the area.

The mother always prayed to God to help her daughter so that the rituals work which kept people were wondering why she didn’t advise her daughter to pray to God instead of going into witchcraft.

However, the wife’s friend who is also a wife to a top officer in the ministry of defense, blasted them and praised the old woman for helping her daughter fight to save her marriage.

She blasted one of the woman who is alleged to be a mistress to a top official at the NRM Secretariat who hired IT experts to hack and tap the minister’s wife’s phone and she is the one who is circulating the controversial audio conversation on different WhatsApp groups.

“That mistress will pay for it I’m telling you. She was a mistress to the minister, he left her and moved in with another woman because she was playing him with that NRM top boss. She still wanted to play the minister with other UPDF Generals and wanted to fail my friend’s marriage. You people, everyone here has privacy and people are doing more deadly and dangerous things to protect their marriages so stop attacking her,” she said.

She further revealed that the said mistresses also hacked into the phone of another top boss in NRM. She rallied her colleagues to gang up and deal seriously with her to save other people’s marriages.

She also disclosed that the NRM top boss has over 27 girlfriends and 10 of them have kids yet the official wife resides in Makindye Division a Kampala suburb.

theGrapevine has established that since the audio went viral, the minister is very confused and his relatives who objected to his marriage to the bewitching woman because she is not his tribes mate are advising him to divorce her.

Others are comforting him that such things always happen in marriage and he should deal with it like a real man.

The youthful minister according to sources is under pressure to take a strong decision which is likely to affect his political career because he married the Munyankole woman to be connected to members of the deep state from Ankole Sub Region.

“I do not think he will leave the woman, she is very connected and he always uses her to score political goals including getting connections and deals from members of the first family,” a friend to a minister told theGrapevine.

By Sengooba Alirabaki