Friends, my avid readers, join me we welcome the return of the Baganda Kabaka- King, to the land of his ancestors skulls. As long as Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi is around, and Buganda thriving, Uganda will always be peaceful.
Many of you often wonder how Mr. Museveni has managed to rule over us for 4 decades now. Look no further. He made a covenant with Buganda and Baganda people to restore their “Bwakakaba- kingship” and they, in return, promised to support his presidency.
Forget completely what you hear from not- so- serious people. The above is what has guaranteed Buganda’s current status and ultimately Museveni’s longevity.
The bush war had three essential ingredients (articulated agendas):
– Take power in Kampala and
restore sanity in Uganda
– Restore kingdoms
– Help the return of Tutsis to
Rwanda
It was these agendas that gave the NRA “Kalampenge- daredevils” who fought not for glory but to achieve those three objectives.
The Tutsis are back home and long restored as bonafide citizens of Rwanda; Buganda kingdom (and others) is thriving and got back most of its assets the previous regimes had commandeered. And Mr. Museveni and friends got their long-cherished dream of ruling over Ugandans.
Therefore this arrangement has no sign of changing as long as Mr. Museveni is in power even beyond. Do you see an MK or a Bobi presidency changing that?
ABOUT THAT CORRUPTION MARCH TO PARLIAMENT:
The myriad of problems we’re currently encountering as a nation, emanates solely from not understanding the perilous history of our country.
For starters, President Museveni has chosen to work with people (not even fitting to be called sycophants) who have no idea why Uganda is the way it is. He calls them ” my cadres” but in reality are vampires and largely ignorant folks.
Secondly, Uganda is falling victim to the excesses of ‘certification education’ which Mwalimu Julius Nyerere hated with all his guts.
It is even surprising that when the Mwalimu started hating on this education, he wasn’t even aware that schools and colleges will, in the future, involve themselves in disseminating ‘fake’ education. Mwalimu wasn’t even aware that universities like “Nasser Rd” will one day take over education.
He had mentored Yoweri Museveni whom he encouraged to concentrate on liberation rather than becoming an intellectual. And Mwalimu was once again right. Museveni has ruled over those who took the path of intellectualism until many died cursing their own lecturers.
Friends, that above, is what is causing animosities in Uganda.
When our ‘intellectuals’ wrote our constitution in 1995, they decided that only the ‘educated’ shall join the national Parliament and rule over the illiterate. They never included anywhere that such folks had to have exceptional character and be patriotic to boot.
Now we have a Parliament and a cast of characters President Museveni surrounds himself with who have no idea what it is they’re supposed to do for their citizens.
Essentially Ugandans are being let down by their MPs (Members of Parliament) whom they choose with the mistaken beliefs that are humans whereas not.
It is our daughters and sons; our brothers and sisters; indeed our mothers and fathers who are now presiding over our misery. They seat in that beautiful building with a great history and plan how to fleece the rest of us.
Ironically enough, I have many friends in that house; decent people you would invite in your home to chat with your children. But once they scale those steps and enter inside that edifice of history, they become unrecognizable.
They spend their time inside there plotting how to become excessively rich an essential ingredient in Uganda if one wants to last in politics.
Uganda no longer has time for poor but great politicians like Chango Mancho, Yoweri Kyesimira, Mayanja Nkangi, Ken Lukyamuzi, Phellimon Mateke, Eteker Ejalu, Ofono Opondo, Ogenga Latigo, Dan Wadada Nabudele, Kabwegere, among a host of great nationalists.
Today we meet the children of those men walking on streets with great names but having nothing to show from being children of the men and women who helped build the Uganda we’re currently scattering!
Today you come across a young man with no history of politics in his family but leading a major ministry. He owns a portfolio of great properties way above his pay grade and Mr. Museveni doesn’t see a problem with that?
That is why I am saying that it will be foolhardy or a travesty of common sense itself for President Museveni to join the ‘March2Parliament’ ostensibly to help root out corruption. No! He shouldn’t join!
President Yoweri Museveni has presided over, indeed encouraged, the excessive accumulation of wealth by Ugandan politicians. He knows them, through intelligence, that they’re as poor as a church mouse when he appoints them in those positions. After a year or so, again through his intelligence, they inform him how his ‘son’ or ‘daughter’ has become stinking rich.
He knows the embezzlers; their houses and concubines including their apartments in foreign lands. No! He shouldn’t join the march to Parliament.
Friends, I was very hurt when I saw President Museveni with a stick (it has magic, I hear) on the anti- corruption march to Kololo which was organized by Madam Nakalema. The people walking beside him had bulging pockets with money they had signed earlier in order to join the march!
President Museveni is aware that no bill or any business of his, for that matter, can go through Parliament without “kakitu kidogo- bribery” now long termed as “Tambula nga Omuganda” a clear sign where corruption originated from.
It is a fact, as day following night, that Baganda are the Jews of Uganda. They don’t get government tenders and contracts but you find their companies doing the jobs.
And this is wrong. That MP who jokingly said that “owekitibwa- honorable” means the corrupt, was right after all. I saw his friends laughing but in a shameless manner.
About that endemic corruption in Parliament, the president knows what to do but he feigns ignorance.
Didn’t he see with his own eyes or from intelligence the most expensive house owned by an MP from the East, built in the middle of nowhere? Doesn’t the President see or told by intelligence about Solo heights owned by his blue-eyed boy who, a few years ago, was a mere district speaker with not a bicycle registered in his name?
Let him take a silent tour disguised as a milk seller in and around Kampala. He will surely know who owns what and of course getting to know about the people, very rich people, who never pay any taxes!
BY WAY OF CONCLUSION:
I have no shame that I joined rebel leader Yoweri Museveni to help restore hope and sanity in Uganda.
I also have no shame to inform you, my reader, that I have not worked with government on any assignment ever since I left the NRA to do other things. I think I even serve my people better being an outsider with inside information.
You should join me we peacefully and orderly call for a change in the status quo. I am not calling you we change government because I know that leaders are chosen by a higher power. I am simply calling upon you to become a better citizen who loves his or her country dearly. This country is NOT for Mr. Museveni as it was NOT for Milton Obote or Idi Amin Dada!
In these pages, almost on a weekly basis, I come out with topical issues as my second liberation to my country. We need information in order to make informed decisions.
I don’t hate Bobi Wine or thinks that Gen. MK should become our next president. I don’t even think that President Museveni should wait to become senile then give up the presidency.
But I believe very strongly that President Museveni should shut the Parliamentary building and send everyone home. If need be, all those more than 1,000 people sponging on Parliament should be enrolled in the army and deployed to Somalia or to DR Congo.
Yes, Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has that power. A man who can appoint his son CDF and his wife in charge of the education of our children, that man is no ordinary man. He CAN shut that Parliament perhaps until the next election when the people can choose responsible leaders.
Therefore there is absolutely and unequivocally no need for the president to march to Parliament in order to stop corruption.
Who will then lead the other marches to KCCA, Land Registry, passport office, to police, URA, UNRA, UIA, NEMA, Ministry of Finance, Justice, Mulago hospital, name all, to help stamp out corruption?
LAST WORD: “If people say he was a good leader; just know that his regime was a failure!”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Adam Kamulegeya
adamkam2003@gmail.com
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