"Uganda, in general, is heading in that direction too, as some of us prophets of doom have been forecasting.When it is all over, Uganda is going to have to start from letter A, and it will be years before the public can come to grips with how they put so much confidence in NRM's convincing claims and promises, how utterly fooled we all were, and how we could not see all the signs all around us from day one in January 1986."
I refuse to believe in this notion that Museveni has succeeded in a rational thinking Human being...unless all along people wanted to be deceived!!..and deceived the people of Uganda have been.This are the days of lamentation ..smear yourselves with ashes put on sac cloth , cry and pray for your beloved country!!...hopefully the Gods will have mercy on all of us! when we are back to square one..when we must start from A, then and only then will
the people have the experience to reject future dictators
and war mongers!!..
MK
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Uganda: Is Uganda On the Road to Total Collapse?
(Page 2 of 2) The outlook of the former compelled him to invest his energy in institutions, spread around the country, that would benefit as many as possible; the convictions of the latter led him to concentrate all core power around his personal protection guard, key relatives, and if necessary let all other institutions collapse in order not to produce an alternative centre of power.
Ultimately, Obote, Amin, Lule, Okello, and Binaisa regarded themselves as
leaders building a united Uganda.
Nobody anticipated the dark, fight-or-die attitude of Museveni - and the path that his leadership would take Uganda slowly but inevitably toward: total destruction.
From the early days of their terms in office, Obote, Amin, Lule, Binaisa, and Okello tried to present to the public the face of being one of their own. They cut down on the presence of armed guards around them.
Amin drove himself in open jeeps, even in the final years in power when he had become immensely feared and unpopular.
In the mid 1980s, when Obote was at his most unpopular and his regime at its weakest, his Presidential Escort Unit consisted of about 900 security men.
And yet for years, despite the claim that Museveni was very popular (and even in the years when he was genuinely supported by many Ugandans) Museveni's personal
bodyguard continued to grow, until it reached its present size of 12,000 men and women organised into a Brigade.
The Museveni regime has stopped at nothing to cling onto power and has not assumed that it is popular, as Amin, Obote, Binaisa and the others did.
It has used the state treasury to unashamedly buy off opponents, invested enormous sums of money in the personal security of the President and his immediate family, broken every rule and law, and undermined every institution that stood in the way of this one sole goal: holding onto power.
The collapse
The cost of all this has been what Uganda and international observers are now witnessing - the total collapse of the nation's infrastructure; government ministries and departments utterly without any real finances; the complete breakdown of a sense of institutional order and with every
decree and government business being made and conducted by State House and the President personally; and the disappearance of the orderly state that the British colonial administrators left behind at independence in October 1962.
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The New Vision, it can be confidently predicted, is going to collapse as other government-owned corporations have since 1986.
Uganda, in general, is heading in that direction too, as some of us prophets of doom have been forecasting.
When it is all over, Uganda is going to have to start from letter A, and it will be years before the public can come to grips with how they put so much confidence in NRM's convincing claims and promises, how utterly fooled we all were, and how we could not see all the signs all around us from day one in January 1986.
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