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Open letter to Members of Parliament Dear Honourable Members, As you deliberate the changes to the constitution, I request each of you to use reason and conscience above emotion and sycophancy. All and sundry know that one of Uganda's (as identified in the constitutional making process) and Africa's endemic political problem has been and remains the fallacy by rulers of the day that they and only them or their family have the divine right to rule perpetually. I do not have anything against Mr. Museveni and judge him to have performed a lot better than his predecessors. But a constitution is sacrosanct and should never be changed to suit the whims of one individual. Presidential term limits in Africa are a remedy to this incessant greed for power. We should grow out of portentous culture where the leaders make ruling a life-long career - as if to them there is no life out of political power. I call upon you Honorable members, to rise to the occasion, heed the noble call and do what your nation desires of you. To Mr Museveni we say to you, we salute your leadership and the invaluable contribution to the freedom struggle to which you and other like minded Ugandans made (Both fallen and alive). But to the kisanja project we say an emphatic NO, not because we love you less but we love Uganda more. An individual is mortal and dispensable but a nation is steeped in perpetuity. Honorable members, the hour of reckoning is at hand; do what is required of you and not what an individual tells you is required of you. Fred Mugisha |
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