Kabonero,
Is Opondo talking about Foba(a creation of the his rich imagination) or FOMBA( force museveni back again) aka "sad" term bid?
Funny world indeed!
Gook
"Rang guthe agithi marapu!" A karamonjong word of wisdom
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Museveni has earned General
ACTING BOSS: Mayega
OFWONO OPONDO
Opinion - New Vision - Friday, 23rd April 2004
ACCORDING to the new guardian angels of the Uganda Peoples’ Congress (UPC) Dr
James Rwanyarare and his sidekick Henry Mayega, Gen (rtd) Yoweri Museveni
does not deserve that rank in the UPDF.
President Museveni, the founder of the NRA (now the UPDF), was early this
year promoted to general, but subsequently retired from the army. As a civilian,
Museveni is anticipated to be a major player in the new political phase of
multipartyism.
To Rwanyarare and Mayega, “Museveni has never attended any military academy,
which means that he has been simply masquerading as a soldier.”
Mayega added, “My feeling is that he has been promoted to continue his
control over the army and continue his dictatorship over the country.”
So the question is: If they fear Museveni both in service and retirement,
where do these critics expect him to be beyond State House?
Rwanyarar e and Mayega ought to be ashamed of their logic because it is
Museveni and his NRA, without the alleged military academy credentials, who openly
and courageously fought for five years to dismantle the UPC fascist regime of
decorated generals from high profile military academies around the globe!
That army, the UNLA of decorated generals, was to say the least based on and
controlled through ethnicity to spread dictatorship.
The fascist ideology turned the UNLA into serial criminals of armed robbery,
looting, rape, murder and extra-judicial killings with impunity in broad
daylight countrywide.
The army was turned into a private looting enterprise.
Yet the enlightened UPC leadership where Rwanyarare was the minister for
culture and community development refused to stop the crime or bring perpetrators
to justice! Just for taming the army, Museveni deserves recognition, if not
applause!
Mayega, a supposed teacher of history, and civil servant at Makerere
University ought to know that academies are not the only places of higher and useful
learning or which build human beings to their full potentials.
Indeed, the world is full of examples of self-educated people such as Jesus
Christ, Prophet Muhammad, Socrates, Aristotle and William Shakespeare.
In military tradition, kings who captured and ruled swathes of wealthy lands
never attended any known military academies.
In the contemporary military establishments, Gen George Washington, Chairman
Mao Ze Dong, Kim Ill Sung and Commandente Fidel Castro became generals by
learnin g on the job, mobilising mainly rural peasants and artisans to bring
liberty to their people. In fact, Museveni has never claimed to have trained at any
formal, let alone professional military college.
Like many of the above, Museveni is a self-educated, trained and efficient,
if not competent, soldier in his own right who ousted fascists, not through
palace coups but revolutiona ry armed struggles.
Then, as usual, failed presidential hopeful Aggrey Awori, the jack of all
trades but master of none, jumped into the fray. Awori told The New Vision that
he was “not aware of any recent UPDF victories (field) that make him (Museveni)
deserve that rank.”
To a falsely celebrated Awori, for promotion to take place, there must be
field victories, which in UPDF’s case he has not been able to “see” although it
defeated his banditry Force Obote Back Again (FOBA).
It should be re-called, that Awori has on many occasions publicly and proudly
said he used his forces to indiscriminately kill RC officials in Busia
district between 1986-90, simply because they belonged to a system he opposed at the
time!
But at any rate, even without recent UPDF victories, Awori ought to know that
there are many stable and peaceful countries where soldiers are promoted
without firing a single shot in combat.
In countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, US, UK,
Canada, Australia, France and Germany and others, military service is a
professional career.
Secondly, promotion even in Uganda’s case can be based on other achievements
either in research or intellectual work leading to a new technology or
military doctrine or strategy.
While Museveni’s military strategy of a “protracted peoples’ war” is not
entirely new in the world, its successful application within a relative short
time (five years) could be a useful indicator to his military ability.
Unlike China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam, Museveni successfully applied that
strategy here in a small, landlocked and poor country with no rear base, yet
bordered by large and hostile neighbours.
Critics of Museveni’s military credentials or achievements could
alternatively be invited to study his Three Essays on Fighting Counter-Insurgency which
led to the defeat of numerous armed groups since 1986, ushering in the current
stability.
Also critics need to know that the hitherto threats from Congo, Sudan,
Rwanda, and Kenya in the early days of the NRM and supported by powerful nations,
were not provoked by Uganda.
The defeat of direct and proxy wars were not by benevolent hands but hard
military, political and diplomatic work. If Museveni had failed as Obote did
twice, Uganda would have been bathed in national crisis similar to or worse than
Liberia and Somal ia put together!
Uganda’s defence of South African blacks, and Rwandese against racism and
genocide respectively was a noble task for which its leadership under Museveni is
proud.
If Obote, Amin, Lule, Binaisa and Okello Lutwa who failed to protect or even
conspired to destroy the country can be decorated as doctors or generals,
Museveni deserves better. I rest my case.
Published on: Friday, 23rd April, 2004
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