“Opposition Warned on Planned Demo” was the news that the Daily Monitor brought us on Monday 14^th June 2020.  What is really going on in this terminally ill country called Uganda?  Is this the democracy Museveni promised us in 1986?  Nearly everything that is reported about our politics is simply depressing; and may in fact be a sign of the very turbulent political times ahead.  How the so-called “Kiboko Squad” was allowed to beat up FDC President Dr. Kizza Besigye in full view of police officers is beyond me.  It is simply unimaginable in any free and democratic society.  And then you have IGP Kayihura unashamedly claiming that he doesn’t know where the “Kiboko Squad” came from and who commands them.  So why didn’t General Kayihura order their immediate arrest if they were indeed on the streets without a nod and wink from the state?  Should the IPC also recruit its own “Kiboko Squad” to counter the beatings they get every time they try to demonstrate?  My answer is yes!  Let Kiboko be met with Kiboko.  Ugandans have nothing to lose now.  After all, Uganda is already a failed state under Museveni’s dictatorship.  So let’s destroy it and rebuild a better one thereafter.  Enough is enough!

Stephen Ssengoba, Kampala