NRM DECEPTIONS
The nearly 30 years of the NRM rule
has made us apathetic to two jobs over Siasa – that of organizational Spokesperson,
and Political Commissar. The NRM government has taught us that these positions
require unconscionable individuals who should lie, manipulate, dupe,
disrespect, and deceive people without remorse.
And, it is increasingly
conspicuous that the NRM self-perpetuates by adherence to duplicitous means. It
nourishes its cadres with falsehood and the attendant cover-up strategies and
makes them Spokespersons. That is what the tightly controlled NRM media and
public relations are all about. Their job is to procure legitimacy to the false
ideology that, unfortunately, has found itself webbed-up in catastrophic
contradictions.
Mr. Ofwono Opondo exudes these traits in his articles that
are predictable, flat, boring and with little value to public debate because it
lacks authentic contents. Opondo appears either malicious, falsifying, condescending,
or coercive like a headmaster. There is nothing straight and truthful that he
can utter. Everything that comes out of his nib is twisted, or an abridged form
of reality. Distortions.
Mr. Opondo’s recent article titled,
“Besigye and Muntu should be honest” (Read: DM of January 11, 2016) is in such
light. In that article, Mr. Opondo exemplified his characteristic derision, and
natural ability to always dump the reputation of anyone who disagrees with
their deceptive politics into a greasy political sink, forgetting his own, in
his closet. And in the article, his usual subject of ridicule was Presidential
Candidate, Dr Besigye. His vain attempt was to deliberately mislead young readers
that Dr Besigye personally banned political parties in 1990, whereas it was not.
In fact, the important question that we should be asking is, can Ofwono Opondo
and his boss, Mr. Museveni ever be honest to Ugandans?
Mr. Ofwono wrote: “By the way it
was Besigye as NPC who on October 3, 1990, addressed a press conference and
issued a written statement ‘banning’ political party activities in Uganda, and
as one of his political officers then, I have kept that statement up to now.”
In this piece, he was being
malicious, and blackmailing. The truth of the matter is that no individual in a
government, can come up with such a major decision to “ban” political party
activities in a country without a consensus from the ruling Party. The banning
of the political parties was a fundamental mistake that this country has not
yet recovered from. It laid the foundation for the sham electoral processes, commercialisation
of elections, and permeated it with violence leading to the endemic corruption
in society and failures in government. The root of that decision lies in the falsehood
of the NRM ideology and can be traced back to President Museveni’s early desire
to become Uganda’s ruler for life.
From inception, Mr. Museveni
argued that the major problem of Uganda was sectarianism based on politics that
divided Uganda into religion, tribes, chauvinism etc and NRM, as an organization,
came up with a spurious solution – ban political parties, install Individual Merit.
By banning political parties, the
NRM as a whole planted the false perception that multiparty politics was the
cause of conflict in society and yet Mr. Museveni has been the most active
ingredient of conflict in our society. NRM ensured that Parties were restricted
and it ruled under a single party democracy. This was the basis of the draconian
law, Article 269 of the 1995 Constitution that effectively restricted political
parties to Kampala headquarters.
It is therefore, a falsification
of pathological proportions to attribute “banning“ of political parties, a
major turning point in Uganda’s political development, to a single act, of a
single bearer of the Office of National Political Commissar.
The truth is that, President
Museveni is petrified of fair competitions. That is why he has absconded from
the Presidential Candidate Debate slated for January 15, 2016. Mr. Museveni despises democracy, averse to the
truth and rule of law. He evades any moment of public scrutiny and hides behind
“peace and security” sloganeering.
Mr. Ofwono Opondo, and his
colleagues have made a very bad reputation for the job of Spokesperson. They
slaughter the truth without the requisite decorum! Opprobriously!
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