The political forces have been building up since Odo Tayebwa, the FDC man won Bushenyi-Ishaka axis. The seismic forces sent NRM reeling backwards and almost sank the party off the shores of Lake Victoria in Bukoto south.

Clearly something is amiss. The rigging and terror machinery was no longer a vote “winner”. The people had long seen through the facade of NRM tricks. More important the nation was progressively waking up and walking. Only NRM was deep in a slumber. For the last three weeks in Kasese woman MP by elections, Kasese was politically charged. The people in Rwenzori Mountains were rumbling. Col. Kiiza Besigye called this political environment as a political earthquake. Besigye says that the political earthquake is inevitable in Uganda and the people of Kasese are some of the most fearless groups of people in Uganda. But the government has failed to see that its intimidation, political arrests, harassment and torture was not going to work in today’s Uganda.

On the 8th day of August, 2012, a smiling FDC candidate in the Kasese woman district woman MP race, Winnie Kiiza, climbed to Stanley peak and did the impossible. She hurled down Museveni, his defence Minister Dr. Crispus Kiyonga, inspector General of Police, Lt. Gen. Kale Kayihura and Gen. Aronda Nyakairima’s military machinery and the Museveni’s NRM was left to pick the election pieces.

On Chapter 25 of the book called the Prince, an Italian philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli compares fortune to a torrential river that cannot be easily controlled during flooding season. “Well President Museveni, it seems the people of Uganda withdrew their love from him a long time ago, now they have withdrawn their fear of him and they look prepared for political earthquake and tsunami,” Besigye says.