Raymond Mujuni Political Past Has Refused to Retire Peacefully.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is raining irony on Twitter! This whole drama erupted after former NTV journalist Raymond Mujuni was appointed Senior Policy Adviser at Uganda’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mujuni, who had previously been one of the fiercest critics of Museveni and Muhoozi, was suddenly joining the very government he had spent years criticising. The backlash was inevitable. But then Allan Kasujja, Norbert Mao and other government defenders stepped in to push back against the criticism. What followed was something nobody seemed to anticipate: people dug into Mujuni’s own digital footprint and brought his old tweets back into the spotlight. Tweets in which he had harsh words for Muhoozi, called Museveni a fool, and mocked the president over what he described as drinking expired porridge. Suddenly, the debate shifted. Instead of simply attacking Mujuni’s critics, his defenders were confronted with his own words from the past. And that is the beauty—and danger—of the digital footprint: the internet has a long memory. You can change jobs, change circles and even change your political position, but your old public statements do not automatically disappear with your new appointment. So, let’s go through these tweets. I’ll show you how the digital footprint keeps receipts—and why Mujuni may have a difficult time explaining the contrast between his past public statements and his new role serving a government he once criticised so fiercely.