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I Gave Them Transport Money and They Left: Museveni’s Strange Meeting with Kenyan Gen Z Riot Experts

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has revealed details about his strange meeting with a group of Kenyan Gen Z riot experts.

According to Museveni, the Kenyan youths had come to Uganda to help their fellow Gen Zs and activists organize riots.

When President Museveni told the 25th Ordinary Summit of the East African Community Heads of State in Arusha Tanzania that the Kenyan Gen Zs had come to offer technical assistance, those listening to him in the conference hall burst in laughter.

“Recently I met some Gen Zs from Kenya. They came to Uganda… that they are experts in organising riots and they had come to Uganda to give technical support to the Ugandan Gen Zs about how to riot,” Museveni said.

At the event where Museveni, 82, took over from William Ruto as East African Community (EAC) chairman, Museveni said some Ugandan youth had confirmed the visiting Kenyan Gen Zs to meet the ‘old man’ for some chat.

Museveni agreed to the meeting and asked the youth what their grievances were. Corruption, they said.

“They told me how they are experts on riots. I said ‘okay, I can join you. But what are we rioting for?’ They said it is about corruption,” the president further shared.

He then argued with them about how the fight against corruption, alone, would not help the situation.

In his view, there had to be deep structural economic reforms in the region to expand markets and production for the economy to work for Gen Zs.

The solutions to their grievances, Museveni advised the Gen Zs, would be in promoting regional integration.

“I urged them to go back and talk instead about the East African Federation,” he narrated.

Museveni also revealed how he called President Ruto and told him about the Gen Z riot experts from his country.

He then decided to give his visitors, the Kenyan Gen Z riot experts who had earlier seemed angry about corruption, some transport money to go back home.

Museveni has in recent days been sharing some stories about his encounters, including how Besigye taught bush war fighters to safely use chloroform during their attack on Kabamba barracks, and how he recently survived an accident as he drove himself in Kisozi. (See Details Here and There).

Samuel Kamugisha

Samuel Kamugisha is a Ugandan journalist, editor, translator, language instructor, poet, fiction and non-fiction writer. A Makerere University graduate of Journalism and Communication with a decade-long experience in news reporting, writing and editing, Kamugisha is Editor at The Pearl Times. His other journalistic work was published by The Observer. When he is not doing journalism work -- which is rare -- Kamugisha will be reading or writing a short story or a poem, or caught up in the writer's block. His new children's book 'Friends of Plastics' has been published by Room to Read and Reading Association of Uganda and can be read here: https://literacycloud.org/stories/7887-friends-of-plastic/

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