Facebook Banned; Ugandans Can Live Without Facebook - President Museveni.

President Museveni has said Ugandans can exist very well without Facebook.

He was speaking during the reception ceremony for Ugandan medallists are Kololo Independence Grounds on Wednesday.

Museveni bragged about shutting down Facebook in Uganda, clarifying that the ban has not stopped ‘cows from being milked, bananas from being produced or fish from existing in the waters.’

“I shut up Facebook. So, I went and check the bananas…are they still yielding? Yes. I checked the cows, are they still being milked? Yes. So, we can live without Facebook,” Museveni concluded.

Facebook ban.

Museveni banned Facebook and other social media platforms in January 2021 as the country prepared to hold presidential elections.

Addressing the nation in Kampala, Museveni accused Facebook of being arrogant.

This came after Facebook closed the accounts of two Museveni supporters locally known as Bajjo and Full Figure over what it called misuse of their accounts.

The closing of his supporters’ accounts did not go well with Museveni, especially after Uganda failed in its efforts a few weeks ago to make Facebook close some accounts that the state deemed dangerous to the county’s security.

He criticized Facebook for being against the government to the extent of closing some of its accounts and said Facebook has no right to say who is good and who is bad in Uganda

“Facebook decided to block NRM message centers,” Museveni said in his speech.

“Why would anyone do that? I told my people to close it. If it is to operate in Uganda, it should be used equitably.”

He said that closing Facebook and other social media platforms was unfortunate but unavoidable.

Social media was also closed down when the country went to the polls in 2016, to the disappointment of users.