Fellow Ugandans, There have been musings about extending elections at home to us in the diaspora.
When double citizenship was suggested I cautioned Dr. Munini, who was one of its principal boosters, about National cohesion . Munini was focused on the impact from African neighbors from Sudan, Kenya, TZ, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC, etc.... For me I am a Pan-Africanist and I consider all Africans as the owners of Africa, irrespective of boundaries. My worry was about characters like South African Boers, Indians from India and all foreigners that still denigrate blacks. Entities who come in to loot and go. Indeed it would be a monumental catastrophe if our country became a “Canada”, a land stolen from it’s owners. We have a lesson in Yusufu Lule who had been exiled out of Uganda for about twelve years when he came back as President. As you remember Lule hardly knew anybody on the contemporary scene then in Uganda; and those who had grown up in his absence did not know or relate to him either. His first appointee was an old fellow, a Brigadier Opolot of the Sir Edward Mutesa era, prior to 1966. These are the Ugandans he had known. It was a disaster for the country. Now we see that the new leadership in Libya had never been in Libya in the last forty years. These fellows are more of Americans, British, French etc…. than Africans. They have no business being the leaders of Africa. The "Syrian National Council" and the US State Department, have chosen Ghassan Hitto, a US citizen and Texas-based IT executive, who left Syria as a 17-year-old over 30 years ago, as the new leader of Syria. Is he better than all those Professors in Damascus University, etc… and religious or community leaders…. I have seen many “Ugandans” who have grown up in the diaspora who are incapable of speaking any Ugandan Language; youths who on seeing a banana plantation exclaim that grandpa lives in a forest or a jungle. Such "Ugandans" should not be considered for leadership in our country. Indeed my suggestion is that one should not be eligible for public office above a certain level unless one has been living in Uganda for the last number of specified years. The new "leaders" in Syria or Libya know nothing about the locals. They serve foreign constituents. Ugandans should put institutional safeguards in place before we get a Yusufu Lule who is ten times more out of touch than the last one. Mitayo Potosi ====================================
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