During weekend, President Yoweri Museveni appointed singer Buchaman, real name Mark Bugembe, as a presidential envoy on ghetto affairs. He is supposed to popularize the NRM ideology among the youth living in ghettos.
Buchaman is a former close associate to musician turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine.
Museveni made the announcement on Saturday while meeting Ghetto Youth Groups who are under their umbrella organization known as NRM Youth Camp at their Kibuye headquarters in Kampala District.
He also launched the NRM empowerment office for youth living and working in the areas of Kibuye and Katwe.
“The office will be a registration point for SACCOs and will make it easy for us to support the youth in their different productive groups,” Mr Museveni said.
At the same event, the President also appointed singer Catherine Kusasira as his advisor on Kampala Affairs, in a move Kyagulanyi termed as ‘desperate’.
“For 34 years, this man impoverished, marginalised and ignored the ghetto people. He evicted them from their land. He didn’t care about their health, their education or their lives. He over taxed them, tortured them and killed so many of them. He thought the ghetto didn’t matter,” Kyagulanyi said on Sunday.
Kyagulanyi aside, Buchaman revealed – of his appointment – that he was ready to fulfill the responsibility accorded to him but one thing he will not do is to report to the President.
“Yes I was given a responsibility but as a leader I will not report to President Museveni and I will not write any report regarding my work because I’m my own boss,” he said during an interview with CBS radio station on Monday morning.
“I can even do this work at a free cost because I have always worked for my ghetto people.”
Buchaman also noted that he does not belong to any political party.
“I’m the ghetto President, my role is to bring all the ghetto people together irrespective of their political affiliations.”
It should be noted that the Kyagulanyi, 37, has championed the term ‘Ghetto President’ for over 10 years, portraying himself as a champion of the poor and everything Ghetto.
As Ghetto President, Kyagulanyi had Buchaman as his ‘vice president’.
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