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Sat, 22 Feb 2003
Globalization, How Ignorant can Museveni be?
At the dawn of the new millennium, the beleaguered President of Uganda,
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, in his Army Day speech of 25.01.20. once more blundered
into a topic he does not know anything about. "GLOBALIZATION", he thought meant
voluntary or forced migration of a people or racial spread on the globe face. On
globalization, Museveni went on a ridiculous pretence and spoke of "The slaves
who were taken from West Africa in 1444: the black people who are found today as
far as California, Pele in Brazil, the Ugandan soldiers who were in the then
British Army to fight the Japanese in Burma and the singing Acholi soldiers
among them".
It is important also to begin to be aware of the word Museveni has started
to throw around. "GLOBALIZATION" is the new world economic concept, to disguise
the name and the unacceptable face of the next stage of CAPITALISM to come in
the face of the collapse of the socialist experiment. The 'globalization'
theorists put it clearly that there are only two forces that matter in the world
economy, namely, global market forces and trans-national companies, and that
both of these forces are not or cannot be subject to effective public
governance. The global system will be governed by the logic of market
competition, and public policy will be only secondary since no governmental
agencies (national or international) can match the scale of world market forces.
This would now mean that National governments would be like municipality
administrations of the global system, their economies are no longer national as
before, and they can be effective only - if they accept their new status of a
reduced role of providing locally the public services that the global economy
requires of them. However, globalization is portrayed as a world set free for
business to serve consumers, in which States and military power cease to matter,
and in which economics, and politics are pulling apart and politics is declining
at the expense of economics. Just as a reminder the type of concept that was
developed by George bush of the "New World order." Somali was part of a test
ground just like Iraq. Local labour must submit to international capital and
world competitive pressures. Attempts to use military force for economic
objectives against the interests of world markets would be put down by a
'killer' economic sanctions: plunging exchange rates, chaotic stock exchanges,
declining trade, etc. Other measures of include keeping African countries busy
in military conflicts to lubricate employment in armament industries - the Congo
case; financial assault on ASEAN {Tiger Economies} to keep them weak;
encirclement of Russia and China with satelite dollar-pegged and
dollar-dependent economies.
Where would this leave Uganda and the Third World?
Uganda would be one large global village, not a nation state any more, its
'national' government will be like Mayor Sebana Kizito's office and its main
duty will be that of a controller of its borders and the movement of people
across them. Ostensibly to separate the more usable highly skilled professional
to roam the globe selling their expertise cheaply, from desperate the poor who
are to be forcibly subject to provide their labour under gun barricade. As for
the unwanted consequencies of violation of human rights that produces refugees,
new solutions will have to be found. In this respect the citizenship and rights
is being re-defined under our very rights without consultation or consent.
Meanwhile, by the opposite token, Uganda's soil and natural resource will
be subject to world capital. Implying 'Capital' identifies an item of investment
interest in Uganda and wishes to acquire it, Kizito cannot say 'No!' For
example, if some capitalists fancied Corner Kilak, Mukura, Corner Iyolwa
Lututuru Hills and the Kabalega National Parks, the Acoli., Itesot, Adhola
population will have to be pushed away and sandwiched in a narrow strip of land
along the Acwa, Ligaga, Dodoti River. Again if some crank wants to buy and
convert the Kisubi Tombs and convert it into a flower garden Ugandans will have
no power to say 'No!'. The irreversible outcome of this is that some people may
have to contend with being squatters on their former land. Presently it is
called 'privatization' which entailed the sale of para-statal corporations to
foreign capital at ridiculously low prices. Privatisation is the acceptable face
of 'Capital' where prices are determined by the buyer from the Western capitals.
On a global scale, Capital sees only the large picture such as the purchase of
whole lands, national game parks, forests, lakes and monuments. People and their
meager properties or belongings are mere details.
For the poverty stricken Uganda, Globalization is about how whether we are
going to survive as a people. It is not funny that Museveni can go to amuse his
soldiers, and give them the impression that if you go to fight in Gbadolite and
you are an Acoli and singing, then you must be 'globalizing'. This is an
outrage. Museveni must better sit down and learn. But if he would for once get
out of his madness and knew what globalization for what it is and still lays his
version to the Ugandan people, then it is the cruel lie he has so far told. It
may mean that he may be in a conspiracy to sell the whole of Uganda to the
lowest bidder, the referendum is but his stunt to buy time.
Clearly, the real Museveni is being unveiled; an arrogant, brutal lunatic
and ignorant Dictator who uses words he does not understand himself as long as
they serve his one and only one ambition, to remain in power as long as he
lives, whatever the consequencies for the poverty stricken people and poverty
trapped Uganda . This revelation may be revealing the whole intentions of the
NRA regime and the very doubtful future of Uganda. It is even doubtful whether
Museveni and cabal/cronies understand what their own words "Movement" and
"Referendum" really mean. For Museveni there is no such a thing as 'society',
but only 'individuals'. As such his regime has been characterized by a
collection of individuals who have been handpicked and hired and fired by him at
his pleasure: and is virulently opposed to any society based voluntary
organisations, be it the churches, cultural societies, political parties and
sports clubs, he is dragging the country to a referendum about, "Movement", is
meaningless to him. One cannot make a 'movement' out of 'individuals' - that is
a contradiction in dielectrics as well in politics. One can make a long list of
words he has used wrongly in the past and quickly abandoned them as soon as they
no longer served his purpose. He is now dragging the country to a 'referendum'.
His explanations seem to suggest that he wants to hold a 'plebiscite' rather
than a referendum. But then, how do people hold a plebiscite on no important
national issue at all? Each time he has to explain his 'referendum', he gives a
long windy reply, the first half consisting of inaccurate or totally fallacious
history of Uganda, the second half consisting of fudged economic figures and
sheer arrogance, boasting of his military prowess and insults on past leaders.
No wonder Museveni endorses colonialism with all its colonial authors.
His aggregate presumption is that he is an intellectual of some sort, thus
his boasting during an American Prayer Breakfast club that he was a holder of
three degrees in Politics, Economics and Social Sciences, whereas he just
scrapped through a social sciences course at Dar-es-Salam University (thanks to
the late Nyerere), is all coming up to the open. The hundreds of thousands of
lies with which he deceived Ugandans and the world is all hanging up on the
walls for anybody to read. Such crafty people like Museveni are well known for
all their antics. To use his own words "I will use you as long as your usable".
Therefore he crafts things as long as it can advance his individualistic
appetite. Just look below of individualistic Museveni has created in his
lifetime and has abandoned.
FRONASA, the guerilla group he modeled on socialist principles (1973) was
dropped as soon as it did not serve his purpose. Its ardent supporters were
eliminated. So was UPM (1980) which he suddenly dropped as soon as it flopped at
the general elections (1980, and could not carry him to the presidency of
Uganda). The NRA/NRM Ten point programme was discarded. The last of the NRA
founder member, Dr Besigye is on treason charge. What the 'Movement' is now is
an empty word that means "Museveni Yekka", which has turned Uganda into a huge
research station for various world diseases and the testing of new drugs. The
Ten-point programme has now been turned into "Ten commandments for the
restoration of may be the 'Kanungu manifesto'. The IMF and World Bank have also
zeroed on Uganda for their economic policy trial. Uganda is one country that
hosts a large number of mercenary troops to continue the " War by Proxy" for the
Western powers.
When Museveni goes, (he will go down fighting), therefore, there will be no
Movement, no constitution except chaos and economic catastrophy. What Ugandan
should know now is that whether you vote or not in the so called Movement
System, you do not belong, you do not count, you are not welcome, things will go
on as has been in the last 14 years without you. What Ugandans should be asking
is not whether or not Museveni will win, rather ask what will happen after the
referendum charade. The answer is actually simple. If you jump on that
Museveni's Bus Wagon, you are entrusting your dear life in the hands of one
sickly and fat driver, Museveni If he made one little mistake or dosed off, that
bus will plunge into any shallow Ugandan lake. All of you in the bus, including
the driver will be dead. If you want to remain alive after the referendum, keep
out of that bus. Do not bother about the referendum!
Jack Stevens Alecho-Oita
The Mulindwas Communication Group
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