“Museveni has been speaking about democracy, but where is that democracy he speaks of if he can't tolerate those who criticise his government? What is happening in villages undermines the same democracy he talks about,” Ssenyonyi said.
The competition aims to encourage every Ugandan to confidently sing the National Anthem while promoting the use of Kiswahili and increasing appreciation of the East African Community anthem as Uganda advances regional integration.
The constitution now limits citizenship by birthright only to persons whose parents or grandparents belong to one of the indigenous groups of Uganda. Meanwhile, Uganda has 56 tribes, and about nine Indigenous communities formally came to be recognized in the 1995 constitution amendment of 2005.
The East African Community is made up of eight countries; currently among them are Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, the DRC, South Sudan, and recently added Somalia.
The controversial bill has since attracted comments from different political analysts in the media, where some have maintained that the bill is set to promote democracy while others have stressed that it’s a blank cheque to the NRM party to antagonize the opposition.