Our National Anthem has inspiration for a revolution
By Nathan Iron Emory
4th July 2011: With the most instructive lyrics from our sacred National Anthem, an anthem that I hope General Museveni one day learns, today, my fellow citizens, I cry for my beloved country. Oh Uganda! There are times in the life of human society when a revolution becomes an imperative necessity; when it proclaims itself inevitable due to the pressures of despotic governance.
Oh Uganda! Today, we see new ideas trying to germinate everywhere, seeking to force their way into the light to find an application in people’s lives and way of governance. Sadly, these ideas are opposed by the inertia of those whose interests it is to maintain the status quo.
Oh Uganda! Our rulers and their sycophants are suffocating these noble ideas with a stifling atmosphere of prejudice. These are ideas of freedom that are enshrined in our National Anthem that plays at official functions in our country. They are ideas contained in the laws of social equilibrium, and in the moral norms of political and economic interrelation among the citizens of our country Uganda.
Oh Uganda! The citizens can no longer hold out against the implacable criticism emanating daily from the ruling class, undermining the people’s struggle to achieve total freedom. Political, economic and social institutions have crumbled. The social structures have become uninhabitable, they are hindering national cohesion.
For the last twenty five years of Museveni’s ruthless reign upon us, reactionary pseudo-institutions have prevented the seeds of democracy, peace, and economic development being propagated by reformers from sprouting in our fertile land.
Oh Uganda! The desire for a new democratic dispensation has become apparent. Our National Anthem calls for morality to ensure good socio-political and economic governance that delivers stability to a country. This sacred call in our National Anthem has been buried by NRM rulers.
Oh Uganda! What formerly seemed just is today crying injustice. The morality of yesterday is today recognized as revolting immorality. The conflict between new democratic ideas and the NRM’s old ideology are flaring up in every class of Ugandan society. Our sons and daughters, who have been duped by financial rewards, are fighting against their own parents.
Oh Uganda! Our citizens who long for the triumph of democracy, justice and human rights have been forced to recognize that the realization of their generous ideas cannot take place in a country ruled and constituted by General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. It is not by mistake that Ugandans now perceive the necessity of whirlwind that will sweep away the rotten NRM, revive sluggish hearts, and bring to mankind that spirit of love for one another irrespective of political affiliations.
Oh Uganda! The old is old! It won’t get newer. Twenty years is enough. Museveni and his parasitic economic institutions can never give society the prosperity it deserves. Instead of generating prosperity, they have produced the exact opposite; raging poverty and unprecedented corruption. The regime is waging a perpetual war of exploiter against exploited.
Oh Uganda! Instead of having reconciled national interests, the NRM is waging a political war intended to obliterate any opposition. Our opposition leaders are called “enemies”, not alternative leaders. Our neighbours are all treated with contempt.
Oh Uganda! Weary of these endless contradictions, political wars, and miseries, our society is now rushing to ask: Who is the cause? Patriotic Ugandans are desperate for self determination, for a complete remodeling of our governance system, for a move to nurture democratic principles, to uphold and observe fundamental human rights, and ensure equitable distribution of wealth and opportunity to all Ugandans.
Oh Uganda! Is that too much to ask? Every day gives rise to a new demand from wanainchi-reform this and that is heard throughout all corners of the country. Police, ISO, ESO, electoral laws etc must undergo fundamental reforms. They must be reorganized and re-established on the basis of new laws of accountability.
Oh Uganda! Examining this picture, one arrives at the conclusion that the struggle for freedom is indeed inevitable. The revolutionary light is peeping through. There is no other avenue to rid our country of this mess than mass action. It calls for practicability, steadfastness, resoluteness, energy, and patriotism among Ugandans.
Oh Uganda! The “spirit of freedom” announced by our National Anthem will soon familiarize itself within the selfless hearts of a few patriotic Ugandans. Some have already decided to ‘walk-to-work’! Every human being has a right to a life of freedom and no state must be allowed to take freedom away from even one single citizen.
Uganda today is bound by the prosaic situation. Sitting in our country are a gang of worthless louts; mercilessly exploiting the poor and that hungry! How can that be acceptable to men with hearts? Yes it can. It can because Uganda is writhing in a wild frenzy spattered with teargas and the blood of the innocent.
Yes it can. It can because Uganda has as its Head of State a CZAR with no heart and no reason. It is incumbent upon us all, young, old, male, female, and disabled to pump reason into his head through revolutionary action that will at once shock his fragile heart into sudden and permanent stop. END. Please login to www.ugandacorrespondent.com every Monday to read our top stories and anytime mid-week for our news updates.
