The high handedness with which the state has handled Kyadondo East MP,
Hon. Robert S. Kyagulanyi and Mityana Municipality MP, Francis Zaake moved
Uganda to a new level of tyranny. MP. Zaake is hooked up on life support, in a
medical vegetative state. Only the grace of his Makers save Zaake's life!
Museveni needs to be reminded that Uganda has matured through many
decades of state violence and rough tides. In the heart of each and every
Uganda there is a craving for peace a good government. This is primarily why
Ugandans have not picked up arms to fight against Museveni's autocracy. People
have respected Dr. Besigye for not opting for the armed insurrection despite
provocation from this rogue state.
There was a time when politics in Uganda was known to be a very dirty
game. Many people rightfully feared to indulge in politics because it was the
fastest route to dying, being killed.
These conditions should have gone with the many bloody contestations for
good governance. Instead, we are now back to the dirt where one is tortured and
killed for participating in an election.
National stability is not defined solely in the interest of Mr.
Museveni. The agenda of annihilating Ugandans considered a threat to their
stale ideology is a sign that violence, rather than conviction has become the
ideology.
Certainly, this tyranny is not a profitable manner for a progressive
society to harness its intellectual wealth. In a country of nearly 40 million,
you cannot have one singular dominant thinker such that 39,999,999 people who
feed and protect that one person are treated as infinite fools.
When we return our politics to the regressive era of 1970s, we end up
with more desires for violence. Violence begets violence.
This is why Museveni should handle Hon. Kyagulanyi and his colleagues very
carefully because the youthful population, who is the majority in Uganda, has a propensity for violence. The reaction
from this section of the population that the youthful Hon. Kyagulanyi commands may
be more than what the nation is ready to handle.
In 32 years, the dictatorship has suppressed two generations of Ugandans
and subverted their indulgence in seeking for fair governance of through rigged
elections.
There was the generation that became of age by 1986 when Museveni took
over power. That generation was dispensed as post 1970s hangover and Oboteists. They paid the price for the
ills of the 70s and early 80s through retrenchment, HIV/AIDS and Siasa/hate
politics. Now in their 60s and 70s, this generation looks back hopelessly at
their predicaments.
Then emerged our generation of the 90s and 2000s, bred and groomed
within the NRM dominance, violence, genocide, corruption, nepotism and more
hate politics. We were sidelined by bush-war historicals, their children and
grandchildren.
The generation of Hon. Kyagulanyi, that Museveni cynically calls his
grandchildren, is the embodiment of the
failures of NRM ideology. If chronic repression deforms a society, then the BW
generation is the socially deformed generation. This group is not very
trusting, and rightfully so. They are industriousness, consumate consumers, and
innovative. This is the social media generation who understand WhatsApp,
Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Mobile money. They are mostly idea oriented,
largely unemployed but very tenacious, vicious.
It is this latter group that are restless for accountability from
Museveni. Museveni should not think that he can hide behind armed guards, armoured
vehicles, torture or killing to avoid that moment of accountability. Each time
Ugandans go to an election, they go there with one thing in mind –
accountability.
Museveni has reacted very angrily
at Hon. Kyagulanyi for leading a troop of disenchanted citizens to defeat NRM
in Arua polls. By harming Kyagulanyi and torturing Hon. Zaake to near death,
Museveni is returning the politics of Uganda to the dirt we emerged from.
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