President Museveni is either so forgetful or is economical with the truth or is sick from the neck upwards. ========================================= I watched the interview of President Museveni with Mr Kaikai on NTV and I was shocked at the lame & stupid answers Museveni gave to every question put to him by Mr Kaikai. In that interview, Mr Museveni defended the removal of Presidential term limits from the constitution of Uganda and went at length to justify his overstay in power. Museveni thinks that Ugandans are so stupid to have forgotten what he personally said immediately he came to power. This is the same Museveni who in 1986 said that Uganda in particular and African in general are poor because we tend to have leaders who want to be presidents for life. He said his new NRM brand of leadership had come to change all that in Uganda. He said his was a fundamental change and not just a mere change of guards. I wish Mr Kaikai had reminded him of that. Museveni also went to considerable length to explain why he needs to still be in power in Uganda as he has not yet finished laying a foundation for the country. It is only Museveni who needs 30years to lay a foundation. In the 25years Museveni has been in power, Uganda is still one of the least developed countries of the world. The country’s manufacturing, agricultural and service sectors are not only dangerously under-performing but also rudimentary in setup. Uganda’s public sector is rotten to the core with corruption, nepotism, maladiminstration, inefficiency and tyranny. The social & economic infrastructure is either nonexistence or dead. Uganda’s population is unhealthy though increasing at a rate of 3.4%. Democracy is still an illusion and justice is dispensed according to which region you come from or party you support. Our education system was thrown to the dogs by Idi Amin and Museveni. In Uganda, we now produce many ignorant half-baked graduates who are either completely incompetent or incapable to help their countrymen & women see light out of the tunnel. They are power hungry. Majority of these are very selfish thugs and others can’t be bothered to use their brains to think independently. These are the sort of people leading the security forces (Police & Army), the intelligence service, the local leaders, etc. No wonder, they all sing “Museveni mpaka last”. Among all these blind people, Museveni the eyed-man seem to be the king. Uganda’s main problem is that our Political leaders on the ground– many of them graduates, lack the vision, capacity and competence to practically understand the problems we face as a nation and have no solutions to those problems. Many of our leaders are power hungry. They are in power for selfish ends and have not used that power to politically and economically empower the citizenry. 25 years on and Museveni is still talking of still laying the foundation of Uganda – politically, socially, economically and militarily. Only a retarded man would need 30years to lay a foundation of a country like Uganda. If Museveni thinks that it takes 30 years to lay the foundation of democracy, then he must be sick from the neck upwards. After all, when he came in 1986, Uganda already had democratic structures & institutions in place. A constitution was in place, constituencies demarcated, districts set up, the judiciary was in place, a police service in place, a parliament in place, the civil service was already in place, ministries in place, the media was in place, the electoral commission was there and all that was needed was to enhance & improve on what was already on the ground. Museveni deliberately destroyed these very structures because he had a hidden agenda of staying in power as long as he can. First, the destruction of these national institutions offered him a blanket cover to rob the country and enrich himself. Secondly, it gave him a cover to install his friends & cronies in positions that matters so as to aid his future political manipulations. Third, it was his grand plan to make ordinary people poorer as rich people are hard to govern. A classic case is the killing off of the cooperative movement in Uganda. With the killing of the cooperative unions, abject poverty immediately entered every rural home where 80% of the population lives. Fourth, it gave him cover to re-write the country’s history and portray himself as a man of vision for the country yet the reality is everything he is trying to put in place now is completely identical to what he destroyed immediately he assumed power. For example cooperatives are being re-created today yet he killed them himself in the first instance. The Railways & Airline talk of today is a cover for the fact that Museveni destroyed these institutions as soon as he came to power. On a worrying note, Museveni’s analysis of the way the Security Services have been handling the demonstrators on the streets leaves a bitter taste in the mouth of any intelligent observer. Either this man’s mental faculty is on leave or he is demented. What Museveni said must have been picked from the same political school as where Gen Idi Amin Dada got his version of the killing of Archbishop Jonan Luwum. Both men put up a brave face to spin blatant cheap lies in the public without shame. Museveni talked about the opposition leaders failing to lead by example. He talked of police cars being destroyed by Besigye’s supporters. He blamed the opposition for not informing the Police about their gatherings. He wondered why the opposition leaders are not civilized & don’t want to cooperate with the police whenever they are told they want to question them. And he said, opposition leaders have been treated very well by any democratic standards. Museveni never offered any apology or comforting words for the innocent lives lost at the hands of his security men. That said a lot about Museveni the president. Mr. President, I don’t think anybody should ask police for permission to walk from home to work. I don’t think police should be wasting time on such petty issues. If you have any intelligence to suggest that they are not walking to work but rather they are going to assemble at a certain point, then deploy police at that point. As long as they are walking on pedestrian pavements and not interfering with traffic on the road, then I don’t think they should be stopped from walking. The heavy handedness of the police in this matter is of grave concern to us all. The buck stops with you because you are the micro-manager cum president of Uganda who wants to have his fingers in every problem. They always say that Sorry is the hardest word. Mr. President, you owe us all an apology for the lies you and your wife have peddled about the opposition in these matters. I am not a fan of Dr Besigye but I think your hate & contempt for Besigye - the person, is blurring your judgment as a leader on many issues that matters especially if the FDC is party to those issues. Viva la Presidente Sunday Geoffrey Kisangara A London based Ugandan Freelance journalist This article was first produced on 6th May 2011
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:55:47 +0000
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