Laughs at Harvard while Ugandan wishes to exchange Museveni against Nana Addo

General News of Saturday, March 30, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-03-30

A few hours after students protested Yoweri Museveni's speech in Kenya at Kenyatta University, the Ugandan president was honored at Havard University when a postgraduate student expressed his desire to see President Nana Akufo-Addo rule her country instead of one of the oldest service leaders.

Student Hilary Innocent Taylor, during a question-and-answer session after President Akufo-Addo's speech at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, began his question by criticizing Yoweri Museveni.

Taylor, who is pursuing masters in international relations, told President Akufo-Addo: "I would like us to trade against our Ugandan president." He later described Yoweri Museveni, in power since 1986, as a dictator, bursting with cheers and applause. "We tell him that's enough," he says.

President Akufo-Addo was himself immersed in a mixture of laughter and helplessness as the student made his remarks.

In Kenya, Museveni's entrance to Kenyatta University's lecture hall was greeted with the songs of "Bobby Wine" and "Stella Nyanzi" before the police intervened.

These are the more recent symbols of resistance to what some have described as Museveni's despotic rule.

Stella Nyanzi has been in prison since November 7, 2018, on two counts of indictment; cyber harbadment and offensive communication.

Nyanzi described Yoweri Museveni as a "pair of bad" and is accused of hinting that Museveni's mother's belly was "cursed" and should have been "burned to the fetus before birth." [ of Museveni]. "

She has also been accused of disturbing the peace of the President and the First Lady of Uganda, Janet Kataaha Museveni.

A pop star turned into opposition, the Bobi Wine deputy was also arrested in August 2018, where he was allegedly tortured and beaten.

He left Uganda for treatment by the United States for injuries he allegedly received while in detention.

Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, was among a number of opposition politicians accused of treason after the president's convoy was thrown to the ground after a rally for the campaign.