Let Sejusa, Mbabazi, Bukenya form a new political party But why don’t you leave matters of generals to the generals?” I complained, trying to sound as much as the original man who made that statement as I could. The maids were excitedly discussing the return of Gen David Ssejusa to the country as a free man, just a few weeks after he had issued another of his daring statements against the government. I really did not expect housemaids to make any informed analysis about the options of a military general who has been considering overthrowing the government, and I didn’t expect to benefit anything by listening to them. “ But if this particular general has been calling on all of us to join efforts to overthrow the government, we must discuss how we can follow him now that he is being received by the security chief of the very government he wants us to fight,” answered the minister’s maid. He has shown them that he does not fear them,” shouted my naïve maid. “Why can’t they arrest him if they are real men? Instead they are so scared of him that they sent an ISO commander to welcome him at the airport!” I decided that the best thing was to ignore them and let them chatter away until the next soap came on TV to attract their attention. But what my maid said next stopped me in my tracks. And now Amama Mbabazi is also showing them what he is made of,” she said. “I think these two guys should form a new party which can defeat your NRM!” Do you know what you are talking about?” I asked cautiously, trying not to sound too apprehensive about entertaining such loose talk in my house. “Sure, Mbabazi would be chairman and Sejusa the secretary general since he is already a general,” insisted my maid. But Mbabazi might not accept to have a powerful secretary general,” the minister’s maid said in disagreement. “Nobody wants a powerful secretary general. That is why ten thousand delegates democratically voted against having an elected secretary general. They democratically preferred to have the secretary general appointed instead. They girls went on with their wild talk as if I was not present. But since they would want to appear more democratic then the NRM, the new party must have an elected secretary general and they should let Gilbert Bukenya vie for the post,” the minister’s maid went on. After all he is the only one who has declared that he wants to stand for president, and yet the NRM only has room for one candidate and that candidate is not Bukenya.” I could not resist the temptation to enter the discussion if only to correct a few of their naïve impressions. And you seriously expect Bukenya to join hands with Mbabazi?” I asked. “Even if you were too young to remember Bukenya’s talk of the mafia trying to finish him, at least you should remember that he jubilated when Mbabazi was dropped from prime minister’s job three months ago.” Maybe he was celebrating because Mbabazi was finally approaching a situation of having to join him in a new political deal,” she shot back. I abruptly mumbled an excuse to go upstairs and left them alone. monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/Let-Sejusa--Mbabazi--Bukenya-form-a-new-political-party/-/689364/2564066/-/mp9km1/-/index.html
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