The people who at
heart really love Uganda should have their main resolution this year 2016 as
practically being involved in seeing Museveni leave State House peacefully
after a defeat in the 2016 Presidential elections.
The reasons among
others being:
1.
The old man has already reached the
span where he can generate ideas that can push forward the country he has led
for the last 30 years and generated an army of unemployed people due to ill
advised policies where his vision to be a mighty military man has consumed all
the resources that would gainfully be employed in productive undertakings that
can generate wealth, and create more value for the country. Instead he keeps resources into consumption
and patronage schemes to see his continued stay in power.
2.
He has cost the country an
astronomical debt which has accumulated to US $ 23bn; this follows the plunder
of DRC resources by Uganda in the 1990’s. It is only a person who does not understand
the implications of this money that can vote Museveni.
3.
You
need to be blind to see so many trillions in unfulfilled pledges - by late
November 2013, Museveni pledges were are totaling to 817, with an estimated
cost of more than Shs12.9 trillion in key areas of Infrastructure such as
roads, hospitals, schools, airport, bridges, electricity and machinery,” says
Mr. Odonga Otto, the then chairperson of Parliament’s Government Assurance
Committee.
4.
It is unfortunate that President
Museveni’s leadership has failed to abandon the guerilla ways of doing
things. 30 years in power and the regime
has continued to operate as if they were still doing guerilla work.
5.
While
Uganda produces many professionals, because Museveni cannot pay what is worthy,
the country ends up training manpower for other countries. Every year, over 250 medical workers leave Uganda
to work, mainly, in South Africa, Botswana and the United Arab Emirates,
ministry of Health statistics show. Majority
of these are anesthetists, laboratory technicians, midwives and nurses. In a
country where health professionals earn between Shs 400,000 for midwives and
Shs 700,000 for medical doctors per month, working abroad, where remuneration
is four times higher, is incredibly enticing.
For example, according to the ministry of Health statistics, in 2010,
thirteen senior consultant surgeons left Uganda for Rwanda where each would
earn Shs 9m monthly. In Uganda, a consultant surgeon is paid Shs 1.5m.
6.
Museveni’s ‘rich-men’ have left many deprived of
land. Many are landless as people steal
from Government and buy off large chunks of land rendering many Ugandans
landless and hence paupers.
7.
Museveni has failed to consider a
worthy budget to the Agricultural sector which is the main stay of the country’s
economy. This is greatly responsible for
the stinking poverty into which majority of Ugandans are found.
8.
With corruption official as it eats
into the national budget to the tune of over shs 1 trillion, Museveni is simply
resigned as regards getting a solution to the monster.
9.
The constant wars in procurement in
Uganda a big failure on part of Museveni administration. Even the printing of ballot papers has
questions and the cost is allegedly inflated.
When you go to roads, it is simply pathetic.
10. Museveni
played a big role in the removal of the Presidential term limits. The reasons the country wanted the term
limits and were included in the 1995 Constitution is the dilemma the country
finds itself in as Museveni sees his tenure in State House as a lifelong career
and the people say, he has to go.
11. It
is impossible to impeach President Museveni given his infrastructure. Uganda needs a President who will perform
knowing that Parliament can vote him out.
Today, he has allocated shs 37bn to Crime preventers when the Uganda
Constitution does not even know them!
12. The
cost of industrial undertaking is near to impossible in Uganda. The country has the most expensive power in
East Africa. Millers are out of
business. Instead interested buyers of
Uganda grain take it before it is processed given the cost!
13. President
Museveni is basically the executive and the Ministers are just stooges who
cannot be blamed for failures by their Ministries. It is no surprise that each category that
gets a problem like the taxi operators, resort to State House. Surely can he be God to perform miracles?
In
a nutshell, for those who love Uganda, and have belief in a vote changing
things, the number one resolution for 2016 is to see the exit of Museveni then
other things will follow.
