IN UGANDA ANARCHY REIGNS SUPREME

Time out for Museveni

"We have known how to face dangers to obtain our liberty, we shall know how to brave death to maintain it."

Toussaint L'Ouverture, to the
Directory ruling France, 1797

As the world stands and watch, Museveni is making outrageous rampages in Uganda killing peaceful demonstrators and maiming civil right activists and other dissenting voices.

II A sure Idd Amin,Uganda’s late dictator toppled by Museveni is now smiling from ear to ear in his grave awed at the audacity his predecessor can pull.

Yesterday , for fear of granting his fearsest rival Dr.Kiza Besigye  freedom to roam and galvanize Ugandans for a walk to work protest,Museveni in his barbaric grandeur and guts locked him up under what his government spokes person called protective custody.

What the president is not aware is that you cannot suppress an oppressed people for long. There is always an elastic limit to everything. If he got his history right Museveni will remember the Santo  Domingo slaves revolution of 1791 led by the famous - Slave Army of Toussaint L'Ouverture.

The revolution that began as mere rebellion by an oppressed people went down into history as the most successful revolution of the centaury. It happened in Haiti it can happen in Uganda.

Unlike Kiza Besigye who looks robusts and daredevil, Toussaint L'Ouverture was born sickly yet a clever commander whose tactics and sheer guts was instrumental in helping the slaves of Santo Domingo break into their freedom. Great emperors like the Napoleon also fell. Where is are the Saddam Hussein of this world?Did Mubbarak not dash into the oblivion? Yet all this were men of ‘grandeur’ as well.

Museveni thumbs his chest at his electorates, he sneers at their poverty with careless arrogant remarks. He makes them feel that Uganda can never be Uganda without him. And he had even has the audacity to publicly declare that since he forced his way into power Ugandans must brace to force him out of it too.

This comes from the mouth of a man who owns almost all of the Uganda’s capital –Kampala, as the rest of the civilian waddle and wiggle in acute  poverty checkered by increased cost of living. Uganda is an unfortunate country under one man siege.

Museveni boasts of increased economic growth, but those are only figures, the people of Uganda want food on the table. He boasts of steady energy supply and the inherent discovery of oil in Uganda,but all that has not translated into jobs and education for  his people.

The Ugandan despot jokes that he and the people of Uganda are in the same situation. How can they be in the same situation when he flys in a private chopper while the rest of the Ugandan walk to work to save for the next meal?

With all these signs, the end is nigh-Museveni is time barred.

Amugasha Kalengeka -Kakamega