I have a dream: Museveni’s end is in sight
By Lawrence Kasozi
6th Sept 2010
Dr. Olara Otunnu’s stand with regard to the 2011 elections is most welcome. For one, it depicts the true feelings of a great number of democracy loving Ugandans who reject Museveni’s dictatorship and corruption.
The country must now see clearly where each and every Ugandan politician stands in terms their desire to usher into our beloved motherland freedom, democracy, dignity, love and respect.
In the past, the so called politicians have been wallowing everywhere about Museveni’s bad governance, corruption, and all manner bad things and yet by night, they fall over each other for scraps from Museveni’s table. Every time there is an election, politicians who don’t really mean what they say go around castigating Museveni. They are clever foxes who just play on the minds of ordinary citizens.
As soon as they are elected, the next struggle is to get appointed into a lucrative committee from where they would enjoy even more privileges. Such politicians, together with the corrupt elite, will never question where Museveni gets the millions that he uses to bribe them. They are partners in crime; mercilessly robbing poor citizens of what is rightfully due to them.
Both the politicians and the elite drive big expensive cars on terrible roads without complaining. They take their loved ones to private hospitals while the ordinary citizens they steal from die in their millions from easily preventable and treatable ailments. This new class, by which I mean the elite and corrupt politicians, will have to be taught a lesson that they and their children will never forget.
That they cannot sit in their flash sitting rooms and close off the outside world when the people they stole from are dying on the streets fighting for their freedom. How can that be right? And yes, I have a dream. I have a dream that Museveni’s end is in sight. I have a dream that in the not too distant future, you the corrupt politicians and the selfish elite will harvest blood from your own hands-off approach to Uganda’s political problems.
The youth of this country will show you that your pre-occupation with corrupt and unconscionable wealth creation is absolutely meaningless without political stability. And the only way you will know that will be when your big cars and mansions go up in smoke. Yes, I have a dream that it will happen. And you will have nowhere to run.
The angry youth of this country that you have stolen from will have sealed off Entebbe airport and all Boarder posts. There, at those exit points, you will be asked to account to the Republic of Uganda; both politically and morally. Why did you sit back and allow all this to happen? That will be one of the questions you will have to answer.
Unlike you the corrupt and economically comfortable elite, Dr. Olara Otunnu is a true son of our land who has come out and said he will not sit back and allow Museveni to ruin our children’s inheritance. Those who can see should follow the path that he and others like him have taken.
For us as Ugandans, doing nothing is no longer an option. That is a luxury that we should leave to foreigners. In fact, even they should not have it all to their way. Just like Dr. Otunnu challenged them in London recently, “if you can do no good, do no harm” to the Republic of Uganda.
What every Ugandan must understand very clearly is that this time there will be no joy riders. The people of Uganda are absolutely determined to take back their country. That is why you see them stopping the mighty Museveni from going to Kasubi tombs. That is why you see them standing up to Museveni’s brutal police force. That is why you see them braving punishment from the stick wielding Kiboko Squad. That is why Museveni imprisons some today and others jump straight into their shoes the following day.
Sons and daughters of this land; be patriotic. Wake up and get on to your feet. Can’t you see that Museveni has bought even more sophisticated weapons to intimidate and brutalise you? You have it within your power to make Museveni finally realise that he only has three soldiers: His wife Janet, his son Muhoozi, and his brother Salim Saleh. The rest are Ugandans.
We must not allow selfish politicians like Museveni, Mao, and Bidandi Ssali to drag us into fraudulent elections. We should lock all the doors leading into Parliament and State House and throw the keys into Lake Victoria until we are satisfied that the political ground is level and we can have free and fair elections. “If you are a coward, go back to your mother’s womb”, Dr. Otunnu says. END. If it’s Monday, it’s Uganda Correspondent. Never miss out again!
