WHY WE MUST ALL CELEBRATE HON. AMAMA’S SACKING FROM PM’S OFFICE: And choice of the beach for the party should be yours. WE Ugandans never cease to amuse or disappoint ourselves. We are now obsessed with the sacking of Hon. Amama Mbabazi without any in-depth analysis. For me, I was not endowed with the wisdom to study the more challenging hard stuff like the “pure” natural sciences, mathematics and statistics so I took refuge in ARTS-that is why I will ask you to excuse me for my naivety at failing to correctly appreciate how scientifically we are being governed in Uganda today and how we react to issues. Secondly you can even see I almost failed to get the appropriate title for my message today. But with my limited literature in English-ARTS- I could have used my simple application of metaphors to critic the Amama case, with the saying that: there is no smoke without fire. First, in the analysis I would ask myself; what causes the smoke? What about the fire? The answers would be just around and deep in the the “fire triangle” made up of three things; Oxygen; fuel and; an object (s) causing the spark. In this way we would be able to identify the immediate and root causes of the smoke or if it is Hon. Amama. There after I would advance to the consequences like: 1. What impact can the fire cause in cause if it went wild? 2. Do you come with a petrol tanker to put if off or a fire extinguisher? 3. Then what cause the smoke? 4. Then why do we see the smoke? 5. What is the impact of the smoke? 6. What are the after effects of that fire? 7. In case that fire caused arson what do you do to the arsonist? And so on, that way we would have many thinking citizens to solve our countrys problems. Unfortunately these are Arts like questions, they won’t help us much. So we find ourselves (the majority) opposition or pro-government alike joining hands with our tormentors to celebrate the humiliation of their victims as they continue being juggled us like balls i.e. Rugundu for Amama to silence a certain group and keep them suffocated, then drop Amama after using him to fight his brother Besigye. Make Kajura in Hoima Tinka’s enemy and Tinka, King Iguru’s enemy –Lukumu- no-see Birahwa; Baitera-must-fight Otada; Amama fight Kadaga before he is dropped and call for cooperation in Uganda or Bunyoro and the game continues on and on. But fellow citizens should we continue in this vicious cycle revenge and mockery without pointing at the actual causes of our problems, manipulation and our own failed civic responsibility. I think by now we should have learned a great deal from our anti-politics and its costs, which we unfortunately call politics, then the common sense and the little experiences we have. I believe there are many others outside there that are better than me in understanding. But I think we need to start exploring new pathways that are more civil for our country. To learn to protest and at the same time to propose and also look at things much deeper than face value. Is it possible that in our country there no good leaders deserving appreciation and therefore a descent send off-Kiseka, Wapa, Awori, Adyebo, Besigye, Bukenya, Amama mention them all are a waste according to one constant factor. This cannot be a laughing matter and it shouldnt really matter who it affects be it NRM or FDC, former blue eyed or red eyed. This should be the time for us to seriously reflect on what is happening in our motherland; the time to put human beings and civility at the beginning and the end of all our motives. Put our country above individuals and political parties. We should be resisting all those forces aimed at destruction of peoples’ careers, lives or country just for the sake of self-recreation and renewal. For me I am an advocate for the creation of space for thought and reconciliation in order for us to always have a fresh start, if it means that is how we can change our country. Not that we should condone evil though!!!! But I believe if one is in opposition, he should work hard to win over members from his/her competitor and when one is rejected from another party our work should be to rehabilitate them, but first, we must welcome them during such a difficult time. I know one may argue that what difficult time is it. But you can only appreciate it when you have been there and then humiliated by the style of your removal. We have been manipulated so badly that we have succumbed to the current fictitious democracy that has been built on manipulation and systematic organisation of injustice, inequality and exclusion. We mock people who have problems, we laugh at the unemployed, we also laugh at those who have been unjustly denied their property and rights, we undermine the poor even when it is not their fault and exalt knowingly or unknowingly our tormentors. I think that is uncivil. We should know that the current political inventions and systems that we allowed to grow over time were built to serve a particular and private interests, and for now only those who have the means for those particular interests can survive in it- never was it meant to be Amamas, nor Rugundas or we Banyoros who take pride in voting 95% year in year out. I tell you it is not for us the never the most vulnerable. No. So we must reconsider addressing our failed civic responsibility. Otherwise, we all buttressed the system that is now eating us one by one-Amama inclusive-in one way or another. Let us all turn to the drawing board. Thank you.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 01:40:29 +0000
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