People Power: A Consequence of The Rot Within.

Boma Moses
Sep 7, 2018 · 4 min read
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​At present, the case of Uganda is that of a corpse rotting from within.

Internally, we are at the mercy of entitled cunning creatures. Imagine a sterile husband. True African tradition provides that such a husband allows his kinsmen to provide fertile seed on his behalf. After all, isn’t the main purpose of marriage to bring forth life! Isn’t your brother’s child also your child?

In my beloved Uganda, after years and countless, albeit futile attempts, the hubby still refuses his extended kinsmen to fertilize the wife on his behalf! He is determined to do so at all costs. To strengthen his stance, the senile hubby clandestinely allowed his “red hot” blood relatives to take turns at the wife. But odd as it may seem, some deficiencies affect the entire family tree! None of the blood relatives have fertile seed to sire any worthwhile offspring.

On occasions, the hubby was (with reluctance) willing to secede the wife to the community. Such plans were however subtly hi jacked by his “red hot” blood relatives, who by now had groomed packs of hyena henchmen into their ranks. For whatever reason, the latter aren’t willing to risk the little time they get with the wife.

33 years on, the wife is near menopause. Her diminishing youth and all its potential, have the community at cross roads. The community’s agony is echoed far and wide. The Vultures, running out of flesh in their own habitats have all the while been on the prowl; assessing the dissent, analyzing the events- Searching for a face and voice to paste onto our impasse.

Because the hyenas in their respective ranks are like men with hammers, every problem to them is a nail, and they hit hard; be it primary school pupils in the wrong color on the wrong day or doctors on strike for all the right reasons.

Enter Bobi Wine and the People Power!

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I believe Bobi wine is the genuine voice of the majority of us yearning for change. I also believe that him contesting for the Kyadondo East constituency as well as participating in the subsequent by elections, was out of plight for his people. This I believed outright until his recent “international” press conference and the record of his “international lawyer.”

In handling the Bobi Wine question the way they did, the old guard handed to the West, a face and voice that had eluded them (with regard to Uganda) since the Obama Speech of July 11th 2009 in Accra, Ghana. Henceforth, albeit our trials, one cannot completely rule out the presence of external influence in Bobi wine’s impetus. His voice and the objectives of the People Power movement are now dented with what reflects as a western plan for regime change in Uganda.

We now have two potential end states, neither of which is great for the Ugandan People.

If the state remains put, undoubtedly, our terminus (with luck) is a permanent cabin on the Chinese debt grid, with the old lion and his pack of cunning henchmen constantly fed on the occasional basket of Chinese delicacies. At worst, we become distant Chinese colony, speaking Mandarin, and looking to china for moral, political and social guidance in return for the resource bounty they ferry out of our motherland absent any checks.

If, with the foreign pat, people power prevails and H.E Bobi wine’s republic becomes Uganda, his Western orchestrators thrust upon us a plague of “clowns”, dancing to a symphony directed in the west, composed not for the good of the Ugandan populace; a tune far more difficult to discern at this point in time.

Ultimately, our leanings will depend on whether we hate the status quo much more than we fear the unfathomable future. Remember, Bobi wine and those like him are consequences of the old guard’s failure and constant refusal to effectuate or accept change, whether for their own good or for the good of those they purport to lead.

If the two sides do not engage each other on amicable change before such change is wielded by an external third party, we as a nation might find our selves on one of the platters at the international table of partitioners; the outcome of which will be a colonial collar that unlike the first, we may never be able to break away from.

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