Allow to begin on this note where i reference the bible:
Joshua
1:9: “Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified or discouraged, for the
LORD your God will be with you wherever you go”
Psalms
32:10: “Many are the woes of the wicked but the LORD’s unfailing love surrounds
the man who trusts in him”
Romans
8:18: “I consider that our Present suffering is not worth comparing with the
glory that will be revealed to us”
Gradually, it will add up and here is why;
You
have heard about the historic 2016 election in Uganda, though the most
heart-wrenching in the history of the Ugandan electorate. It is with sadness
that I write this dissertation with some of the key things I have captured
through the campaign trails. I have to say before I go into the nitty gritty
that Dr.Besigye, though cheated was my choice candidate, and for millions of Ugandans.
He has been arrested unnecessarily for fifty two times( I am worried they may even pick him up before I finish
typing this).I didn’t mince words when I shared my admiration for this iconic
legend in the fight for Freedom:
During
and through the campaigns, our leaders made very outlandish statements’ cannot
still understand how a secretary general of ruling party (Kasule Lumumba) finds
the audacity to proclaim that anyone who protests when the votes are rigged
will be shot at at(something the Uganda Police have out rightly done, shooting
and killing People).This in conjunction with what Mr.Museveni had earlier said:
“I will not hand over power to the opposition” and his partner in crime the
inspector general of Police Kale Kayihura said: “We will
not let the opposition take over power”
I can’t
even find the nerve beyond broken what to express the rage, anger and disappointment
I have with our top notch leaders who now see an independent country (53 years
) with a constitution s family business. Worst case scenario, I have reached a
point where the hope that these kinds of statements are not going away soon,
quoting the president after the declaration of the president-elect (himself, of
course) vowed: “I will crush the opposition in the next five
years”.
Well, Mr.Museveni has tried to crush
the opposition but failed the last fifteen years, actually every effort he
makes embarrasses him and the opposition grows stronger each day.
What
Mr.Museveni and his minions have done perfectly is scatter the skeletons of
their hypocrisy right outta the closet while at once making a mockery of their usual
“show of democracy”. I have
wept tears of Joy and pain at once. I still don’t understand how parents stand out
there and applaud such animosity forgetting that when they are gone, the
effects of what the ugliness they are planting now will catch up with their children
and grandchildren, looking at Museveni as a spirited patriotic as he oversteps
the law to sustain himself on his throne. The no
change of Museveni kind of people being tone-deaf about the realities of a
common man are infatuated at a very personal level: to describe where they live,
it’s a place that explains how reluctant they are to confront and imagine the
realities of a life of the less privileged, where many of the Ugandan populace
still fall. Unfortunately, they have enthusiastically decided to promise better
every campaign trail but never deliver, this is what I earlier called Museveni’sslew of lies:
If
Mr.Museveni were an honest man, if asked whether he has done this other than
promising them on the campaign trails, he would say he is guilty as
charged.Today, there are 83 percent unemployed youth, how do you even begin to
explain that?
At
the debate(s) where Mr.Museveni appeared just at the second debate, when
Dr.Besigye was asked whether he calls the kind of dictatorship a pseudo
dictatorship he said: “it’s an outright dictatorship, not a pseudo dictatorship”.
It was one of those cringe –inducing moments for Museveni I have ever seen,while
at the historic debates:
As
you read, we have never had a peaceful handover, and maybe it may not be here
soon as the events have unfolded the last couple of days. Dr.Besigye has often
called us upon having the power to the people not in the hands of the president,
I totally agree as evidence speaks for itself very clearly. Mr.Museveni and his
minions don’t agree to this fact-yet the
harrowing upheavals of the common man; while they dub the progress steady; are
telling of their unflinching love for their comfort zone.Surely,I have never
met a group so averse to truth like this one, but I found an explanation:
The
Musevenist; want to be coddled and cuddled; they have painted their god-Museveni
as a soft delicate flower that ought to be held with care. HELL NO! Save that
bullshit for tomorrow. Mr.Museveni has called almost everyone who breaks the mold
of conformism and calls him to his ineptitude a liar but well, that’s what a
man whose want for stamina continues ailing does however much he tries to
renovate it.
The
word of God is very crystal clear in the book of Proverbs 17:15: “acquitting
the guilty and condemning the innocent, the LORD detests them both”. We
live in a nation devoid of justice and hostile to truth. We live in a nation
that acquits the guilty, condemns the innocent, calls good evil. Once you come
to terms with this, you will never be shocked by anything no matter how
outrageous, depraved, wicked et al .The good can only win a case in a nation
where justice exists, sadly, we do not live in such a nation.
No decent person would
applaud such a turn of events. If you try to take their side and cheer them
while they evade accountability, you are a deeply troubled human being.
This
will have a very tough sell in the ears of someone who hates the truth but this
one time, please try and deal with the heart-wrenching truth that you continue
to lay claim to as not truth on the flip-side. Actually, you should be filled
with immense affection for me when I call Mr.Museveni a very ‘smart man’ who
does things by ‘intelligent design’. Or maybe now that you have melted into a boiling
puddle of rage and self-pity. Havent you? It shouldn’t matter that my criticisms
are sharp and severe; you ought to revere me all the more for it.Now let me say
this very loudly, ‘I DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR ANGER’,I have been through that
stage and I have now graduated to indignation. I will congratulate you if you
ever get where I am right now! Yes I have been angry and super angry as I see
you and your boss call selfish progress steady progress and I am calling you to
this outright hypocritical villainy. Right down the list of your anger, you are
blithely embracing every single thing you are angry about: Mr.Museveni; an embodiment
of corruption, elitism and cultural hegemony.
I would be mentally ill to
support something that I am avidly angry about or I would rather be
fantastically stupid or not angry at all.
Bear
with me: with the 83 percent unemployed youth(to which I am party yet highly
qualified),an economy that has gone in the ‘toilet’, the continued
monetization of Politics, the poor healthcare, the poor quality education and
decrepit schools for the common man, the partisan policing and defiled
systems—look ,we no longer have a functioning constitution!
Now
let’s talk about the just concluded elections. By the way, you should doubly
love what I am doing here because it appears very close to apophasis, which is
a rhetorical device where the speaker coyly makes an accusation or insult in
the context of denying or distancing himself from the unkind remark. For instance, “Many people think my neighbor Badru is a
thieving jerk who borrowed my garden hose last July and didn’t return it, but I
am not going to talk about it”—that kind of stuff.Mr.Museveni and his
agents use that a lot (if you remember how we begun) but we can’t wait now to
spill the dirty laundry any more. No way, No more, No, Museveni!
Allow
me to be painfully honest about this. If there are not hiding anything
behind closed doors, why then do they evade all avenues that will clear the air,
if this open letter I earlier wrote to Mr.Museveni was listened to:
And
I can’t afford to live out the Uganda Electoral Commission boss Mr.Badru Kiggundu;
he equally has his role play in this whole thing. Actually, he is one of the architects.
I leave one for him, as well:
PS:
I
want to call upon all the authority figures to try and much as they can to do
this for me.About Dr.Besigye’s supporters: they want someone to protect them
and their way of life(a life very miserable and way-different from that of the
privileged few).vilifying them will not change their minds. Listening and
expressing empathy is the only path to light .Of course, doing this requires that
we face our own fears first. This is the greatest challenge we as individuals face
through the evolution and awakening of our collective human consciousness. This
way, we all win, Peace and security wins: “ONE
UGANDA, ONE PEOPLE”.I do not write this as an authority figure but only
as a citizen who is very much worried and cares about his contry.Where I
overstate the truth, bear with me and forgive me.And, where I am short of the truth,
I pray the LORD shines a light in those places~Grace Abaho Sr, P10 AUTHOR.
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