By Zacharia Kanyonyozi
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The Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) Chairman Muhoozi “Deputy Dictator” Kainerugaba recently spoke at Masaka Liberation Square during a Baraza (meeting) organized by his PLU supporters.
His wife Charlotte was by his side.
In Budo, during high school, she was an agreeable lady. However if agreeability was sufficient to make one a First Lady, my cat would be in State House.
That aside, let us point out the 800-pound gorilla in the room by reminding you that Gen. Kainerugaba is a serving officer.
And the Constitution of Uganda clearly states that serving military officers are prohibited from engaging in partisan politics. This is a crucial safeguard to ensure that the military remains non-partisan and serves the interests of the entire nation, not just single political party or entity.
So by Gen. Kainerugaba leading the PLU, we see that there is nothing patriotic in his actions. They are clearly geared towards preserving an imperial presidency for his family.
Second, Gen. Muhoozi is such a soporific speaker.
To be sure, his oratory has the rousing effects of a sleeping pill. So his efforts at sounding presidential were more valium than valiant.
His fashion sense in Masaka was defined by a hip-length, close-fitting tailored jacket fastened with buttons topped off by a high (mandarin) collar, as popularized by former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and then by the Beatles.
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.
Still, Gen. Muhoozi looked like he would have been more comfortable in a toga of ancient Rome to show how Uganda has crossed the Rubicon with this toy soldier coming out a potential successor to his father.
The crossing of the Rubicon is an idiom which has its roots in Julius Caesar in early January 49 BC becoming dictator for life (dictator perpetuo).
This is precisely what we saw Gen. Muhoozi becoming as he walks in Dictator Museveni’s footsteps.
However, Ugandans are generally in agreement that Gen. Kainerugaba replacing his father is the Museveni Junta’s second worst idea, the first being how they have shoved Dictator Museveni down our throats.
Still, with the Ugandan political class having been bought or leased on both sides of the political aisle, there will be no organized revolution against this evil state of affairs.
Instead, there will be a spontaneous uprising similar to what we saw in 1989 when the world witnessed East Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall and the Communist regime spontaneously collapsing.
No group organized the famous gatherings of thousands of people at the Karl Marx Square in Leipzig on October 9, 1989. They just happened and very soon we saw the end of the Cold War.
One of the consequences of this was Romania’s tyrannical communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, along with his wife, Elena, was executed by firing squad after a summary trial.
Not even the army could save Ceausescu as demonstrators faced down pro-Ceausescu forces in the streets.
It turned bloody, but the dictator was overwhelmed and thrown into the wastepaper basket of history, the legacy of his misrule a dead letter to democracy.
Dictator Museveni is setting himself and his son up for a similar denouement.
You may not see it coming but it is what will happen because Ugandans are fed up with being taken for a ride by a regime with the moral code of the Mafia.
So let Baby Doc Kainerugaba enjoy it while it lasts or simply obey the dictates of history and spare us any unnecessary bloodshed by stepping aside.
His wax wings will not endure the sunburst of protest when it comes. After this, Uganda shall prevail and rise anew from the ruins of Museveni family rule.
