By Reagan Ronald Okumu
It’s very sad for a nation that claims to be a democracy to have derailed right from inception, making nearly 40 years of claim. Mr. Museveni continues to manage Uganda like bulls manage each kraal of cattle, nobody else but him. He claims to be ideological but has fallen short of that intellectual value. He claimed to have fought for peasants but is now busy deliberately creating a middle class based On non-epotism, thus creating not only classes of the haves and have-nots but tribal haves and tribal lacking.
He claimed to be a Pan- Africanist but has turned out to be a puppet of Western institutions. He claimed nationalism, but has turned out to reverse the gains of independence by creating tribal hegemony. He claims to fight for democracy, but he has become a tyrant ranked in Africa in number six as the sixth most brutal dictator. He claims to build institutions, but instead he has turned to building a theocracy.
He claims to fight corruption but has turned himself into the only Mr. Corruption, and any corruption by himself, including acquiring part of the Ministry of Defense farm in Kisozi or sanctioning people who steal with his knowledge, is ok…initially, from the start he claimed those who steal and build or develop Uganda are ok except those who steal and take money abroad. He claims to bring economic development that saw the scrapping of cooperative bank and cooperative, UCB, CMB, etc institutions built by the nationalist Ugandans to secure Ugandan ordinary citizens from economic slavery. These institutions were looted bare, including CMB, whose properties were at home and abroad. Strangely comparative assertion with other dictators like Amin, Amin built Ugandan houses in New York, London, Brussels, Paris, Nairobi, to mention a few, in very prime locations standing out till now. Instead, Mr. Museveni is primitively carrying money in sacks at the state house and seeking political patronage. The list can go on and on of Uganda caught in a social, political, and economic quagmire, uncertain of its future.
The regime junta in Kampala now lacks any moral or ethical grounding to earn legitimacy and trust. Lacks leadership foresight and possesses intellectual inferiority in reasoning with his political counterparts. The tool of suppression, propaganda, and shifting promises has replaced legitimacy and trust with the hope of gaining moral value. Ethical values of justice, fairness, and virtue is never in the vocabulary of the ruling elites.
The government has lost virtue as a central moral framework, replaced by systems of rules and regulations. Genuine virtues like honesty, honor, and community focus seem diminished, and increasing narcissism in Uganda. Even ethical utilitarianism has warned that the regime continues to justify unjust acts, overlooking the value of individuals, hence traumatizing citizens. Even the simplest ethical deontology approach by the regime to understand the morality of an action by the regime should rely on the action itself, not the consequences, as the regime argues. This leaves Uganda is total dilemmas of leadership!
If I were Mr. Museveni, I would read the scripts of history very, very carefully and turn to Ugandans with a huge apology. In any case African culture of reconciliation will still honor him to have a place in society that waits to be uprooted. But continuing to grab people’s Land that started from Ankole to Buganda and now in northern Uganda 
will endanger not only his legacy but the total uprooting of those who grabbed land. Today, with taxpayers’ money and public guns, you can still defend 
them. But tomorrow those will change hands 
️ , and regrets will be too late.
will endanger not only his legacy but the total uprooting of those who grabbed land. Today, with taxpayers’ money and public guns, you can still defend them. But tomorrow those will change hands ️ , and regrets will be too late.Wake Up Ugandans, never to remain docile in demanding our rights and place in our country. We are not demanding too much, but what belongs to us. The vision of independence, its unity of purpose, and nationalism should be our desired en,d but not those who come to reverse historical gains as exhibited at the gate of the Ugandan parliament. Shameful, and to you who pretend nothing is going on
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