I will want to take the comments from Godfrey Onentho seriuosly.In his comparison of the variuos Uganda leaders,he singled out Idd Amini and Museveni as the most daring dictators of sorts.But unlike Idd Amin Dada,the "conquarer of the British empire" as he called himself,Museveni is avery cleaver dictator.He has perfected the art of having two faces.One face is that of a democrat and a reformist.This is the face that the donors and other friends of Uganda see,and it has earned him a good name with many of them.He has received lots of praises and support from the international community.The other face ,probably the one that faces Uganda is of a dictator,who do not respect the constitution and the rule of law.
His wits are growing by the day,and from my presumption,Museveni is seeing the bigger picture of his schemes when many other people are still taking his actions as unculculated.Why am I saying this.
After rescuing Uganda from the ravage of civil wars in 1986,23 years down the line he still considers himself the Messiah for Uganda.I heard some person saying he is still paying himself for the trouble and pain he went through to bring Uganda to what it is now.That is the reason why at one forum,he had the audacity of asking people where they were when he was in he bush fighting.Were you not busy sleeping with your families in your houses?.He will ask.And Janet Museveni,his wife will tell the people,less they forget that God sent Museveni to save Uganda...And the saviour should carry on.
You might differ with me,but I read red,when I see Museveni`s governemnt enact very punitive and restrictive laws for the NGOs.NGOs has been the voice of the people and a close partner of development of the people.I read red,when he is clammping down on the media,and now the picture is becoming more clearer,when he appoints his wife Janet, a first time MP for Ruhaama County as a minister for the Karamoja region and his brother Salim Saleh as his defence advisor.Promoting his friends to various cabinet and junior cabinet positions and sidelining those not supportive of him.
Is it an advance form of manipulation before the 2011 election?.Does he want to leave office anytime soon?By the way recently he bought the most expensive presidential jet in Africa when Uganda bearly have an airline of its own.He has also build a very luxurious state house in Entebbe and with the discovery of oil and romour of minerals in Karamoja.Is he ready to leave all this to another person? I dont know.
If he is truely streamlining governace and fighting corruption,why sack the finance minister and retain his friend and loyalist Amema Mbabazi;yet all of them were involved in the same land scandal at Temagala?
Is this a wider scheme for remaining in governance beyond 2011 or is it a normal act of governance?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
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