NRM Cadres at Kyankwanzi Petition CEC to Handover Power to Gen Muhoozi

A section NRM cadres under the Mwangaza Fraternity  have issued an urgent petition to the Central Executive Committee of the National Resistance Movement, demanding that the party deliberately prepare for the day when President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni relinquishes power and fronting General Muhoozi Kainerugaba as his successor.

A few days ago,  a CEC meeting sat down and the resolutions of the meeting are yet to be officially communicated, but its reported the said meeting was about who would succeed Gen Museveni, when he reires from the biggest office of the land. It’s further reported that Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s name was suggested in the same meeting.

The petition, dubbed the Kyankwanzi Nyekundire Declaration, was adopted on Friday 13th November 2026 at the National Leadership Institute, Kyankwanzi, after several days of deep and heartfelt discussions by Cohort 3 on fundamental matters affecting the Ugandan and African homeland.

The cadres, speaking in their own name and in the name of thousands of comrades outside Kyankwanzi, said they are deeply conscious of their fundamental duty to the Ugandan and African people, to themselves as offspring of the African Liberation Movement, and to their posterity, and therefore solemnly petition the NRM CEC that the Movement, the Ugandan people and the Revolution should very deliberately prepare for the day when their beloved leader Mzee Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni relinquishes the duties of President of Uganda.

They further petition that when Mzee relinquishes, Comrade Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba should be elected to the Office of President of Uganda in accordance with the Constitution of Uganda, the Constitution of the NRM, and the express guidance of Mzee from time to time.

A section of the cadres at NALI after a training session/ Courtsey Photo

The petition seen by our reporter states that Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba is supremely and eminently qualified in his own right to serve and serve well as President of Uganda, noting that he has made an extraordinary and outstanding contribution to the Ugandan Revolution, to the peace and stability of Uganda, the region and Mother Africa, to building the great capabilities of the UPDF and the welfare of its officers and men, and to a relentless war against corruption.

Copy of the petition as seen by our reporter/ Courtsey Photo

Most important, the document says, his contribution is firmly anchored in a deep commitment to the discharge of the Historical Mission of Uganda and Africa. The cadres add that a Muhoozi Kainerugaba Presidency shall ensure change but with continuity, in the continuing journey with accelerated political and economic African integration for prosperity and security, deeper into the knowledge economy, digital, space and nuclear age.

The Mwangaza Governing Council also warmly saluted the NRM Pressure Group, PLU, for bringing necessary pressure to bear upon the situation, thereby helping outline very urgent tasks on the question of the leadership of the Movement and the Revolution after Mzee.

They propose that the preparations for transition should be most dignified and respectful, in salutation and warm recognition of Mzee’s outstanding and extraordinary leadership in a most complex theatre of military, political and economic campaigns and battles spanning the length and breadth of Mother Africa for over 60 years.

The declaration further proposes that between now and 2031, Mzee assisted by Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba should institute a National Conference of all Political Forces to revamp the 1995 National Democratic Consensus and consolidate broad consensus on a National Strategic Doctrine reflective of the National Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy, embodying elements such as the acceleration of the political integration of Eastern Africa, a National Defence and Security Doctrine, a National Economic Doctrine, Regional Government, Establishment of a National Council of State and other matters.

Within the NRM itself, between now and 2031, Mzee assisted by Gen. Kainerugaba should work to harmonize and unite all members around the necessary strategic path into the future and constitute committees to feed into the proposed National Conference.

On their part, the members of Cohort 3 who passed out from NALI Kyankwanzi have committed themselves to be disciplined, patriotic, united and exemplary in their conduct and to go back to their communities as Ambassadors of Mwangaza and defenders of the Revolution in all its strategic goals.

They affirm total support for the political leadership of Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba as successor to Mzee, pledging to stand with him, to work with him and to defend the Revolution under his leadership, and they resolve that Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba be formally requested to become the Patron of the Mwangaza African Revolutionary Study Groups.

Col Emmy Katabazi, Senior Cadre Yakoub Gowan, Mr David Mafabi, Col Okei Rukogota after a training session at NALI/ Courtsey Photo

This declaration gives formal organizational backing to what Senior Presidential Advisor on Security and Intelligence Col. Emmy Katabazi has been preaching this week at both Kyankwanzi and Rwaniro Sub County in Kiboga District.

Col. Katabazi, the former Deputy Director General of the Internal Security Organisation, told the mammoth gathering at Rwaniro on Thursday that Uganda has already crossed the Red Sea under Museveni and that Gen. Muhoozi will deliver Ugandans to Canaan. He thanked Gen. Museveni for the peace and prosperity he has brought to Uganda but said the rest of the remaining work would be accomplished by his bonus son Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, whom he described as a wise man like his father.

Col Emmy Katabazi in Kyankwanzi on Thursday afternoon/ Courtsey Photo

Col. Katabazi said the main activity in Kiboga was endorsing Gen. Muhoozi and registering cases under the PLU Legal and Business Advisory program, and he urged the people of Kiboga to support Muhoozi because of his spirited fight against corruption, which he called Ugandans’ biggest enemy right now, adding that whatever Minister Balaam Barugahara is doing is the work of Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba.

Col. Katabazi also warned that the enemies of Uganda usually support weaker leaders to use that opportunity to fail the country for their benefit, wanting Uganda to remain only a source of raw materials like coffee and minerals without value addition.

Col Emmy Katabazi at Rwaniro Sub County in Kiboga District with PLU members/ Courtsey Photo

He said that is why the training at Kyankwanzi is meant to decolonize the mind and create a pool of cadres who love their country by supporting their revolutionary leaders to survive, which he said is the meaning of patriotism.

He noted that the war revolution was successful and what will follow is the industrial revolution which will solve all economic issues as a country, and he said when leadership says no corruption it will go, adding that he now feels a breath of fresh air when he sees the CDF declaring no corruption.

He further said Gen. Muhoozi will amplify his father’s dream of one East Africa and the East African Federation, which he said is key for prosperity and security.

Gen Museveni has led Uganda for the last 40 years, and his son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba is seen most likey as the heir, according to the political atmosphere in Uganda today.

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