Gen. Museveni. PhD in lies. Photo: Facebook.
Desperate to extend kleptocracy Uganda’s ruling party National Resistance Movement (NRM) leaders with assistance of rented spinners in the media are selling a set of recycled promises or pledges as a “manifesto” to gullible Ugandans.
The sale starts with the NRM’s greedy visionless and exceedingly corrupt flag-bearer and presidential candidate, dictator Yoweri Museveni Tibuhaburwa. They want the privilege of another five years to plunge the country into a deeper bottomless pit of unspeakable impoverishment. What a bunch of shameless, selfish and insatiable greedy people who take Ugandans for complete crack brains.
The old dictator, Gen. Museveni, in the company of his fellow thieves is presently gallivanting around the country in search of the people’s mandate for another term, ahead of the 2021 general election. One wonders what he is going to do in the next five years that he hasn’t done in his almost 35 years of over-staying in power. He is recycling the same old template of empty promises he has been spewing since 1981. Seemingly, the dictator has nothing left in his tired head to promise Ugandans. Not even new lies.
The spin-masters are all over the newspapers masquerading as columnists vouching for Museveni’s performance, on television and radio. They claim he’s fulfilled 90% of the promises he previously packed as sweet lies to Ugandans. They also defend the unfulfilled promises. They are hired and paid huge sums of money to hoodwink Ugandans. They enjoy free airtime on television, radio and newspapers. They opposition are denied the same platforms to counter such lies.
Every Ugandan should be asking why dictator Museveni is even a presidential candidate seeking re-election after almost 35 years since his first promise—or lie—when he was sworn in after he seized power by the gun was that the NRM was different from the rest. He said, “Nobody should think what is happening today or what has been happening in the last few days, is a mere change of guards….I think this is a fundamental change in the politics of our country. Because in Africa we have seen so much change that change has become meaningless. It is no longer change but merely turmoil. This group getting rid of that group, and that group doing worse than the group it got rid of. Now please do not count us in that category of people.”
He also said, “The problem of Africa in general and Uganda in particular, is not the people, but leaders who want to overstay in power.” The dictator has corrupted the public’s standards in virtues, logic, and rationality. People have suffered from poverty and maladministration of the despot Gen. Museveni. He has robbed generations of the concrete level of knowledge and principles that would enable people to make a valuable judgment of good and right as the sine qua non for for leadership. People look for what the dictator forks out from his bulging pockets.
Moral contradiction is when one despises evil in other countries but keep keep supporting the abettor of the same right here in Uganda. The dictator waits until election time nears then starts bailing out starving people with largesse in return for their conscience and votes.
His actions show he was never guided by principles when as rebel leader in 1980, he plunged Uganda into destructive was merely to instal himself president. Since 1986 he has maintained his power with powerful lies and propaganda.
Security officers whose salaries are paid with taxpayers’ money crush or threaten to crush those with opposing views. Men who are trained—again with taxpayers’ money—to protect Ugandans regardless of political allegiance, pursuant to the law, instead shield Gen. Museveni and his criminal cartel.
The writer, a Black Star News columnist, can be reacghed via [email protected]
He is the author of “The Greedy Barbarian,” and “Banana Republic—Where Writing Is Treasonous.”
