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OWEYEGHA-AFUNADUULA: When Politicians And Scientists Conspire Together To Push Their Respective Agendas

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By Oweyegha-Afunaduula

When I joined Busoga College, Mwiri in 1966 for my Senior One Education, one thing I learnt from my Physics teacher, a Briton,, which has stuck in my head, was “To every Action there is a Reaction”. Then later in the same year, I heard my Christian Religious Education teacher, another Briton, say, “God is Good All the Time”.

As I went on learning, I learnt that “Everything Has a Good and Bad Side to It”. However, when politicians and institutional scientists push their agendas – separately or jointly, they don’t balance good and bad in their decisions, choices and determinations. It is worse when both of them are congruent in their decisions, choices and determinations.

You will only hear the good and there will be conspiracy over the bad to exclude it from consideration. Silence will reign. We saw this during the Covid 19 Pandemic in Uganda. Scientists and Politicians never contradicted each other when their joint decisions were bad and wrong.

They had to be right. The victims were Ugandans. The worst sufferers were our children who were forced out of school for two years as if the disease was against them primarily.
They have again conspired to deny our children completion of the curriculum, this time because of Ebola.

Because of their high immunity and favour from God and Nature children suffer least from pandemics and epidemics . Education can be used to protect them alongside God and Nature, but when politicians conspire with scientists to achieve their aims, and both have their characteristic power, alternatives don’t matter.

I have heard that in Kenya President Ruto is pushing hard to ensure that the hapless Kenyan farmers are forced to grow GMOs, ostensibly to improve production. A professor of Biotechnology at Kenyatta University has told Kenyans that they need not worry about GMOs; that they are good because they have a certain good side to them. He does not talk about the bad side of GMOs.

Obviously it is a conspiracy between the Professor and his team, President Ruto and Mossanto, the corporate pusher of the GMOs Scientists who live by GMOs as a career booster have pushed so hard to institutionalize them. We in Uganda are still lucky because our President hates GMOs.

He has not conspired with scientists against the natural food chain of Ugandans, although he loves scientists (natural) more than he loves the arts and social science knowledge workers. How much more will he hold on. Supposing we get a Ruto like President in Uganda won’t we go the Kenya way?
For God and My Country.

The Writer Is a Ugandan Scientist And Environmentalist

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FWEL RECAP: Maroons Beat Rookies As Wakiso Hill Get Best Of Tooro Queens

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Mary Kemigisa of Tooro Queens in a previous encounter

At long last, the women’s second tier – the Fufa Women Elite league got off the mark as five matches were played over the weekend.

The matches generated eleven goals altogether with Lillian Kasuubo and Fortunate Mutuuzo scoring a brace individually for their sides.

She Maroons, seeking an immediate flip back to the top flight, saluted Goldstar Ladies with a two nil beating on Saturday.

Lillian Kasuubo scored all the two goals at Gangu rangers playground as the prison queens started life in the second division on the right footing.

Lira was set aloud by the northern derby at Akibua stadium between the northern queens – Lango and Acholi the very same day. Lango Queens came out 2-0 winners through Joan Adongo and Lona Ayo first half strikes to silence their Kitgum based sisters.

Action continued on Sunday with three more matches thrilling whoever cared to enjoy the showings at the different venues.

At Highland SS play ground, hosts Isra Soccer Academy showed class when they comfortably defeated Dynamic Jjeza by three to nothing – benefiting from Ana Mary, Hairat Babirye, and Brenda Kwak’s goals before Wakiso Hills held firm on Ritah Kisakye’s precious first half goal to beat Tooro Queens at Buhinga.

Mary Kemigisa of Tooro Queens in a previous encounter

Completing the day’s action was the contest at Nyakasharu Play Ground between Bunyaruguru Girls and Luwero Giant Queens. Fortunate Mutuuzo raced to a brace while Shivan Ashaba struck in the third to ensure their side earned all the three points.

Two teams – Isra and Bunyaruguru, jointly lead the table with three points each as Luwero Giant Queens and Dynamic Jjeza occupy the bottom side of the log.

Full Results

Saturday

Lango Queens 2-0 Acholi Queens

GoldStar Ladies 0- 2 She Maroons

Sunday

Bunyaruguru Girls 3-0 Luweero Giant Queens

Tooro Queens FC 0 – 1 Wakiso Hill

Isra Soccer Academy 3-0 Dynamic Jjeza

Next fixtures 

Saturday November 19

Luweero Giant Queens Vs Lango Queens – Kalule Play Ground

Wakiso Hills Vs Acholi Queens – Maya Ground

Dynamic Jjeza Vs FC Tooro Queens – St Charles Lwanga play ground

Sunday

Gyco Girls’ Soccer Club Vs Isra Academy WFC – 4th Division Play Ground, Gulu

She Maroons Vs Bunyaruguru Girls – Prisons Ground

 

 

 

Sadick Ssempigi: Draw At Jinja North Is Worthy Building On

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Mbarara City was held to a dreary draw by Jinja North United on Thursday in the Fufa Big League.

The Ankole Lions were a shadow of the side that smashed Booma 3-1 in their opening game and their luckluster performance at Kyabazinga stadium was not the kind of showings expected from a side that was plying trade in the topflight five months ago.

Despite bossing possession by large, Ssempigi’s side was awful in the golden area and shied at the infrequent opportunities created.

But a point on the road is as precious as gold for a team looking for an immediate return to the Uganda premier league.

” I applaud the boys for the efforts they gave in – we shall build on that in our next match,” Ssempigi said.

“Our strategy was to control the game and the boys did that well.”

“We were dominant in the midfield, we defended well and didn’t allow the opponents to play, but unfortunately, we failed to utilize our chances.”

Defensive by approach, this was the second goalless draw on the bounce for Jinja North and two points in their bag from as many games at their first time playing at this level – they are currently in 9th place.

“It’s not yet bad, two points from two games is not bad for anew team in the big league like us,” assistant coach – Fred Lumu said.

The affair was uninteresting – punctuated by numerous stoppages and with few chances and far between.

Johnny Mugweri declined to put Mbarara City ahead in the first half that had little to write home about as he dreadfully crashed a header out from inside the box before substitute Jamie Kisitu stung the gloves of Fredrick Nyekorach in Jinja North’s goal.

The Ankole Lions appealed for a penalty that never was as the game wore on when Frank Zikulabe cleared his lines with the chest.

Jinja North’s chances presented through Dickson Matama and Zikulabe but all failed to find away in.

Mbarara City rank fourth on the 16 team table at four points and play host to Lugazi FC on their next outing while Jinja North will travel to Kitara on Thursday of the following week.

OPINION: Uganda The Lame Duck Of East And Central Africa

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By Oweyegha-Afunaduula

M23 rebels have been disturbing Kinshasa for a long time in their quest to either break Eastern Congo away from DRC or capture power in Kinshasa, and the Government of Uganda has been fighting ADF rebels in DRC.

The Uganda Government has said it can crash M23 rebels at the speed of lightning. Why hasn’t Uganda defeated both M23 and ADF if its priority is to free DRC of rebels? Isn’t it true the Government of Uganda has said it is using UPDF to build a road or roads in DRC to promote trade between that country and Uganda? If Uganda government has failed to crash ADF what capacity has its military to crash both M23 and ADF? What interest exactly do the rulers of Uganda have in DRC that has made them tolerate the operations of M23 and ADF?

Government of Uganda spends most of the national budget on conflict generation and conflict crashing. It has a hideous classified budget to fund wars, politics and may be the corruption of the already rich and powerful. I don’t know how much of the 1.7 trillion shillings that Parliament of Uganda has allowed the Government to borrow at the exorbitant 15% interest will go to wars, politics and corruption.

We have not been told how much of the money will go to human capital development, agriculture, health, pensions or salaries of Government workers. We know a big chunk of the money will go to State House. We now know that each man, woman, child and unborn will have to pay a million and a half to make good outstanding loans to international and domestic money markets.

We also know most borrowed money is for things, not development. All this amounts to one thing: Retrogression; development in the reverse. Why should we develop in the reverse when countries around us experiencing forward development?

During the reign of Apollo Milton Obote in the 1960s, the countries now called the Economic Tigers of Asia, which include South Korea, Singapore and China, would seek advice from Kampala on how to grow an economy. The government then spent a miniscule of the national budget on accumulating weapons of war and more on the agricultural economy, education economy and health economy.

Government wanted an economy in which the people were food secure, health secure and education secure. That is no more. The focus of the Government of Uganda is on wars and refugees, not agriculture, economy, health, education. As a result, impoverishment of Ugandans in terms of food, health, education and total economy is rising astronomically.

For the love of war and refugees, Uganda has become the lame duck of East and Central Africa. As I have said many times in the past, Uganda is like a car stuck in mud in reverse gear with a driver who is stuck in stagnancy, not sure how to go forward.

I have already written about the dangers of growing a refugee economy. One thing is true. Refugees eventually capture countries, capture economies, capture power, capture countries and capture the future of those countries they capture.

All decision-making is by the invasive refugees. Aboriginals do not make decisions in Australia; Red Indians do not make decisions in USA, Canada or the countries of South America; and the Maoris do not make decisions in New Zealand. Refugees make decisions for them – even decisions as policies and laws to serve their selfish interests. If you want, you may ask why the rulers of Uganda are interested in accumulating refugees and securing them while increasingly exposing Ugandans to rising insecurity.

Uganda will not develop, be transformed or progress in the 21st Century unless leaders acquire new knowledge, wisdom, understanding and insight in how to manage a budget in the interest of Ugandans rather than foreigners, or the narrow interests of some of our rulers.

God will help Uganda if the rulers do not continue to play “God”, humble themselves and become human enough to work to change the lives of the poor and needy of Uganda for the better, not worse. The poor and needy of Uganda these days include some of our best educated. They have been rendered so by an economy oriented towards wars, refugees and enriching a few individuals at the expense of the majority of Uganda.

For God and my country

The Writer Is a Ugandan Scientist And Environmentalist

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Woman Faces 4 Years In Jail For Mutilating Young Girls

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Kampala, Uganda- The Magistrate’s Court in Moroto has sentenced a 46 year old woman to four years imprisonment for procuring Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) on four girls.

Maria Lokeris, a resident of Nakonyen village, Katikekile parish, Tapac Sub County in Moroto district was sentenced by the Moroto Chief Magistrate, Emmy Soyeko on Friday, November 4, 2022 after pleading guilty to the offense.

Prosecution led by the Moroto Resident State Attorney, Innocent Obale told court that on Thursday November 3rd, 2022, Lokeris subjected four girls aged between 13 to 15 years to the mutilation and was arrested following a community tip off. She was right away arraigned before court and sentenced.

Three of the victims are said to have escaped into hiding in neighboring Kenya while the fourth girl was rescued bleeding profusely and in unbearable pain.

In his submission, Obale noted that FGM is an inhumane, cruel and degrading act to the dignity of women and prayed for court to hand the accused a severe sentence that would deter other would-be offenders from committing the same crime.

Communities and authorities in Uganda have been vigilant as the year 2022 falls among the traditional cutting years.

The conviction of Lokeris comes eight years after the last conviction was registered in Karamoja region. The last conviction of an FGM cutter was done in 2014.

According to World Health Organization, FGM comprises all procedures involving partial or total removal of the female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs, or any harmful procedure to the female genitalia, for non-medical reasons.

Since 2009, the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development has been implementing the UN Joint Programme (UNFPA/UNICEF) on FGM focusing on development of a conducive legal and Policy framework, strengthening access to services by survivors, increasing awareness among communities on the dangers of FGM, and gathering evidence in form of data and case studies to facilitate advocacy interventions.

Under this partnership, the prevalence of FGM reduced from 1.4 per cent in 2011 to 0.3 per cent 2016 at national level.  However, prevalence within the practicing regions of Karamoja and Sebei is still on an average of 50 per cent and 20 per cent respectively.

In 2010, Uganda enacted a law criminalizing FGM although practicing communities prefer to conduct it in hard to reach and isolated areas while others crossover to Kenya where the law is still weak against the practice.

While addressing a cross-border meeting on FGM at Riwo Town Council in Bukwo district in October last year, the Minister of State for Gender and Cultural Affairs, Hon. Mutuuzo Peace Regis, called for extra vigilance during the planned cutting period and rallied the communities to identify and handover FGM perpetrators for prosecution.

The UN Joint Programme on FGM ended and negotiations are still on for another phase of implementation extending to 2030 so that the gains registered so far are consolidated.

Mr. Michael Longole the Karamoja regional police spokesperson said they will continue arresting and prosecuting the suspects found cutting women.

Moru Lokutai, a resident of Nakonyen, however appealed to government to support the FGM cutters with alternative income generating projects since they look up to the ritual for their livelihood.

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BREAKING: Gov’t Orders Schools To Go For Holidays In Two Weeks Time

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Schools Heading For Holidays- COURTSEY PHOTO

Government has finally made a resolution on the closure of schools to break off for third term holidays earlier than the planned dates in a bid to curb the spread of Ebola virus that has since been recorded in some schools.

According to the ministry of Education And sports, schools with pre-primary to secondary will close on 25th November 2022 for holidays almost two weeks before the official date of 9th December.

At the beginning of this month, Minister of health Dr Jane Ruth Aceng requested the minitry of education headed by first lady Janet Kataha Museveni to shorten third term such that children go back home to ease the efforts of curbing the spread of Ebora virus that has been highly recorded in the districts of Kasanda and Mubende which are currently under lockdown.

While giving updates on the Ebola outbreak in Kampala last week urged schools to follow the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

‘We know that the timeframe for candidate to do their exams has already been fixed. The fewer the learners at school, the easier for us to carry out surveillance to ensure that the learners are safe”- she noted

This also comes as good news to schools that were also planning to break off for holidays as costs of maintaining schools especially on meals were in the necks. This means children will be home from 25th November to almost early February when First term for 2023 will commence.

Schools opened fully this year after almost two years as the country was battling to contain the Covid-19 virus that ravaged the whole world.

This is a developing story…..

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OWEYEGHA-AFUNADUULA: Mysterious Deaths In Uganda Part II

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By Oweyegha-Afunaduula

When Ultimate News published an article by me under this title, some people dismissed it as unsubstantiated because it limited itself to only children of Uganda Politicians. For fear of being called all sorts of names, let me expand the scope of the article by that title by including a list of assassinations of prominent people and another of massacres that have not fully been explained. This generation has a debt to future generations to assure them that we valued both life and justice and tried to explain every death that occurred at the national and local levels.

Below are partial lists of assassinations and massacres in Uganda since independence that still beg credible explanations of why they occurred, how they occurred and what they implied about the sociopolitical tranquility of Uganda in the past, present and future. Uganda spends a large chunk of its National Budget on security. However, despite this insecurity problems persist, permeate and proliferated in society. With the passage of time, there is no evidence that the security of Ugandans will be secured, especially against our armed forces and intelligence institutions. Ultimately it might be God’s security that will work when our own security instruments fail.

List of Some Prominent People Assassinated Since Independence (Extracted from page 365 of the Book “Political and Leadership History of Uganda: From British Colonial Era to Movement Era” Edited by Dr. Shannon Tito and to be published early next year (2023) in Toronto Canada).

Victim                                                          Date of Assassination

Brigadier Pierino Okoya                                January 23 1970

Chief Justice Benedicto Kiwanuka               September 21 1972

Archbishop Jonan Luwum                            February 17 1977

Major General Oyite Ojok                           December 1 1983

Dr Andrew Lutakome Kayira                             March 6 1987

Prof. Dan Mudoola                                     February 22 1993

Dr. Francis Kidubuka                                   February 22 1993

Lt Michael Shalita of ISO                               October 15 1996

Major General James Kazini                      November 10 2009

Brigadier Noble Mayombo                                   May 1 2007

Sheikh Abubaker Kiwewa                                   June 22 2012

Cerina Nebanda MP                                   December 14 2012

Sheikh Dr. Abdul Kadiri Muwaya                December 26 2014

Sheikh Mustapha Bahiga                             December 28 2014

Joan Kagezi                                                     March 30 2015

Sheikh Abdirashid Wafula                                    May 21 2015

Sheikh Ibrahim Hassan Kirya                                   July 1 2015

Major Muhammad Kiggundu                     November 26 2016

Andrew Felix Kaweesi                                      March 17 2017

Abrahim Abiriga                                                  June 8 2018

Muhammad Kirumira                                  September 8 2018

Sheikh Abdul Karim Sentamu                              April 20 2021

List of some Infamous Massacres in Uganda (Extracted from page 366 of the Book “Political and Leadership History of Uganda: From British Colonial Era to Movement Era” Edited by Dr. Shannon Tito and to be published early next year in Toronto Canada).                          

Massacre                                   Number Killed                                 Date

Luwero Triangle                             500,000                                  1981-1986

Mukura Train Wagon                            100                                July 11 1988

Kampala Naguru Wedding Massacre        26                              June 26 1994

Atiak (Northern Uganda)                       300                             April 20 1995

Kanungu                                               700                           March 17 2000

Northern Uganda                                  400                        1987- April 2006

Kampala                                                 40                          September 2009

Kasese Massacres (By Army)                   100                     November 26 2016

Wakiso                                                    20            April-September 29 2017

Kayunga Shrine                                        5                                         2017

Luuka    (By Army)                                   54                   November 18 2020

Kampala                                                    3                   November 18 2020

Masaka                                                     13             July 22-August 23 2021

For God and My Country

The Writer Is a Ugandan Scientist And Environmentalist

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OPINION: Mysterious Deaths In Uganda

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By Oweyegha-Afunaduula

Uganda: Sons of political heavy weights have died under mysterious circumstances. From Sir Rich Kaijuka’s to Balibaseka Bukenya’s to Haji Abdu Naduli’s. Can the Country’s crime investigative arm establish any thread of truth that there is well-planned criminal action against some political families where political inheritance is being institutionalized.

Both Sir Rich and Bukenya refused to accept what investigators of crime said they had found out about the deaths of their children. What did the firebrand politician, Naduli say during his recently fallen son? Mysterious deaths of sons of heavyweight politicians are not the only ones that have caused a lot of concern among Ugandans.

There have been a long chain of mysterious deaths of big people, including Sheikhs, all chronicled in our print media over decades. Investigations have revealed nothing or are continuing. It is much easier to explain the deaths of victims of road accidents, malaria, HIV/AIDS, Covid 19 and Ebola Zaire or Ebola Sudan.

I have heard the latter two being explained by free-flow of refugees into Uganda from DRC and South Sudan, and of UPDF soldiers in and out of DRC at one time or another. But explaining is not necessarily towards the truth.

The truth may continue to lie somewhere else. One time the Catholic Church explained that it was the Sun which moved around the Earth. And when in the 17th Galileo Galilei explained that the opposite was true, he was excommunicated from the Church, confined to his house for some years (making him a prisoner because of his scientific truth) only for the Church to accept in 1993 that he was right and reinstate him in the Church posthumously.

It is true the truth sets one free as Jesus said, but where lies are institutionalized and divinised as business as usual, the truth can imprison or be excluded as much as possible! This way truth is cast as a lie and a lie cast as truth and the world and its people continue to fall under the grip of the devil.

The devil’s advocates and agents continue to be in control on his behalf. The devil must be banished from the earth in general and Uganda in particular? It is an uphill challenge. Everything is possible with God.

But Jesus warned that the devil would whitewash himself and cast himself as an angel of light. So would his agents project themselves as angels of light. We would need the Holy Spirit to help us between the good and bad angels.

For God and My Country.

The Writer Is a Ugandan Scientist And Environmentalist

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JUST IN: Passenger Plane Crushes Into Lake Victoria

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Linda Njoroge
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News reaching our desk indicate that a passenger plane belonging to Precision Air has plunged into lake Victoria while landing at Bukoba Airport in Tanzania.

Rescuers Doing Their Best To Save The Passengers

Details we know so far have it that the Passenger flight number PW 494 registration number 5H-PWF from Dar-Bukoba-Mwanza  had 53 people on board (49 passengers).

Authorities say rescue operations are underway, it’s also reported that the accident was as a result of bad weather.

According to Kagera Police boss William Mwampaghale, Precision Air Passenger flight PW494 from Dar-Bukoba plunged into Lake Victoria as it was approaching Bukoba airport.

This is a developing story…..

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OWEYEGHA-AFUNADUULA: Uganda’s Sovereignty Versus The Sovereignty Of President Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s Family

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By Oweyegha-Afunaduula

The Ruling Party, Opposition Parties and Ugandans allowed the governance and leadership of the country to evolve into monarchy-type governance and leadership and, therefore, left changes in governance and leadership to the family of the long -ruling President Tibuhaburwa Museveni.

Already the future is here with us. Leadership contest in Uganda is not within the NRM or between NRM and the Opposition Parties, or based on differing ideologies. It is between the President and his son.

This has not only divided the NRM, which has so far been the basis, source of political power for and legitimization of President Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s rule, if we do not factor in the military.

The President’s son is not basing his illegal quest for power (illegal because he is still a serving soldier paid by the public) but on the old falsehood that the old have no more business to play in governance and leadership. This has divided the country further, thereby turning the President’s belief that he has united the country in far more ways than did his predecessors he frequently referred to as “swine’ when he captured the instruments of power.

We now have the mainly young NRM-leaning political activists confusing and dividing the country by targeting 2026 Presidential elections with General Muhoozi Kainerugaba as their Presidential candidate.

Curiously President Tibuhaburwa Museveni has allowed his son to traverse the country, ostensibly to meet his supporters, as the President himself manifests as if he is in full control of the country. He continues to set the agenda in virtually everything political, economic, military, legislative and developmental, while keeping a lid on the Opposition politics as he has successfully done in the past. He has some obnoxious laws such as anti-terrorism law and Sectarianism law to serve as the oppressive and repressive legal instruments to keep the Opposition under strict check.

As his son moves around the country doing politics while still a serving soldier, which is unconstitutional, legitimate political leaders are not allowed to freely meet or connect with the population or recruit members.

A party such as Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC), has become older with mostly aging members because for 36 years it has not been allowed to renew its membership, but has instead struck a cooperation agreement with the NRM. The Democratic Party (DP) has followed suit, and its President-General, Nobert Mao, has been rewarded with a Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs. He will probably, in unity with President Tibuhaburwa Museveni, initiate and see through constitutional changes that will allow an NRM-dominated Parliament to elect the President of Uganda in 2026.

So, in a way Mao will have played the role of freeing the Presidency of Uganda from the people of Uganda. The people will no longer claim that they elected a President. Deceptively NRM will claim that it elected the President. And just like the Opposition participates in electing Speaker and Deputy Speaker of Parliament, whose absolute elector is NRM, it will participate in electing the President, whose absolute elector will be NRM. If by 2026 Muhoozi Kainerugaba will have retired from the army, which is likely, the strongly and predominantly NRM Parliament, will elect him in case he stands, which is likely. The NRM folklore will do so thinking, believing and convinced that they are preserving NRM hegemony, which has been declining, while that of the President’s family has been rising.

In effect NRM folklore will not only free the Presidency, but also the President’s family, from Ugandans. The only thing Ugandans will claim as theirs will continue to be State House, which will be the home of a President paid by them but over whom they will have no sovereignty.

I have no doubt this is coming as we sleep with open eyes. A 2026 President will claim that he is legitimate because he is elected by representatives of the people. This will be akin to Rishi Sunak being elected Prime Minister by the Parliament of Great Britain by the Conservative Party in the presence or absence of the Opposition members. Once elected, Sunak becomes the legitimate Prime Minister, but not elected by the People of Great Britain.

A president so elected will claim he is the true representative of the people and of Uganda, and the true embodiment of freedom and democracy. Most likely, he will continue to claim and lead celebrations of the myth that NRM/A liberated Uganda and Ugandans, when in fact it liberated Rwanda and ushered in a new black colonialism interspersed with neocolonialism that is more exploitative than the orthodox British colonialism was.

For God and My Country

The Writer Is a Ugandan Environmentalist And Scientist

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