The bell is tolling for the government
The chickens have come home to roost. The just released World Bank report on Uganda�s political and economic performance is very telling of the months and years ahead of President Museveni not simply just as an African head of state but more importantly, as an international statesman. It is not so much that yet another dossier from Washington and London makes headlines in the western press attacking President Museveni and the first family, as it is in its critical timing.
Barely a year from now, Ugandans shall go to the polls purportedly to decide on who, if anyone, replaces President Museveni, who by then would have ruled for nearly quarter a century, but more than that, it comes at a time when the country is wrestling with how it will manage a political transition from a disguised monolithic Movement system to a pluralistic political setting.
But beyond just being denied grants and other monetary aid as a pre-condition to democratic benchmarks and the rul
e of
law, what we are beginning to witness is a shift in world opinion about Museveni as being a model of good governance in Africa to a monstrous hostage-taker presiding over a loose criminal gang in the name of the state. What, if anything do these unfriendly signals portend for President Museveni in the post 2006 era in the event that the people gave the man a bonus term in office? Are we seeing Museveni�s move to the left or are these the murky signals of regime collapse in the Ugandan government?
Unknown to most Ugandans and as their country�s self-styled emperor becomes more belligerent by the day, far from his critics at the international scene [Sir Bob Geldof the Irish rock star, Mike Mullin, the British Home Secretary and now also on board is the former US Ambassador to Uganda Mr Johnnie Carson] causing a foreign policy shift towards Uganda and possibly a not-so-big slash in the amount of American dollars flooded into the Ugandan economy, but sooner or later thre
ats of
sanctions will be hanging over our heads. Until then, those massaging the dictatorship will start to feel the pinch.
Do you read, Moses Byaruhanga, Ofwono Opondo?
Besides, in Britain, it is most unlikely that people at the policy level like Gordon Brown, the British Chancellor would dare risk their electoral fortunes by seeming sympathetic to rogue regimes in Africa like Yoweri Museveni�s.
James Tamale
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The so called donor community have calculated , based on independent confidential information gathered over many moths, that it is no longer in the interest of the donor community to play ball as usual with the regime in Kampala. This donors are not stupid..that is for sure.
Matek
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