President Museveni
alleges that his competitors Dr. Besigye and Hon. Mbabazi have no mission for
Uganda. Museveni is the type who decides
to nurture the army (UPDF) a dependent institution at the expense of viable
development pillars, and what do we see? An army of unemployed youth who
graduate yearly but have nothing to do as resources are wasted into consumption
more so among other things institutionalized corruption, the huge Parliament,
the ever increasing number of districts just to satisfy his ego to remain in
power at the expense of viable development initiatives!
Having presided
over the forces that were greatly responsible for instability and insecurity
since 1972, Museveni has managed to ensure security for a bigger part of Uganda
for as long as he has stayed in power (30 years), though in the northern part
of the country, insecurity has been ‘enjoyed’ for 2 decades. It is unfortunate that his unwillingness to
leave power when he is seen as a tired man given the challenges of the day is
fertile ground for throwing the country to chaos and instability.
Museveni indeed had
a mission as he is convinced; however, there are too many negatives to his
mission or ‘is it the one man vision’ which in the final analysis qualify him to
be a tired, exhausted man whose increased input into the management of the
country will simply lead to more diminishing returns given Uganda’s circumstances. His mission involving UPDF operations out of
Uganda boundaries into DRC calls for a payment of US$10bn an astronomical sum
of money, which keeps increasing due to interest, and there is least effort
seen in form of positive negotiations to see the matter settled without Uganda
having to foot the bill. If majority of Ugandans were literate enough, they
would qualify him into not getting any audience for his rallies given this
blunder.
His mission which
gives priority to recruitment into the UPDF whenever there is opportunity is no
asset to the country where majority of the people are employed in agriculture
with no technical people that can help their initiatives, instead, the people
just gamble. The other time he was defending
his UPDF distributing seeds and other planting materials; the question is: Do
these people have the ability to advise the farmers on innovations in
agriculture, etc? He now talks about
putting shs 1trillion into NAADS if he is elected President in 2016, however,
he forgets that NAADS is just a component in the Plan for Modernization of
Agriculture (PMA), in which case, the wise thing to do is to put such money
into the planning hands of the Ministry of Agriculture so that they see
strategies that can boost the agricultural sector given its sorry state today
where technical manpower in the field is lacking, the marketing infrastructure,
post harvesting just to mention a few.
Go to our Social
sector. It is pathetic. In a number of schools, cheating to pass
national examinations has been the norm.
When Fagil Mandy wanted to address the problem as chairman of UNEB, the
wise thing to do was to show him the exit.
The plight of the teachers is at its lowest. Many in the health sector are having it rough
to serve, and it is no accident that the low morale of the practitioners in the
health Sub – sector is leading to loss of lives that would otherwise have been
saved. When complaints are made as
regards low pay to workers in the social sector, Museveni tells the people that
his priority is infrastructure development, and mind you, in the
infrastructure, procurement there is associated with scandals that would be
list expected of the country at Uganda’s level of development.
Museveni’s
governance is happy with the Auditor General’s Office that keeps on reporting
about the loss of substantial funds, but has no ability to redesign the role of
the office so that it can intervene before the funds are lost, instead the
story goes on and on as people steal the money, build everywhere to show that
the country is having substantial development.
In his campaigns
now, he is giving hope to the NRM cadres who failed in the party primaries that
they should sit back and wait for employment prospects in which case, they
should not stand as independents. This
patronage where quality manpower is compromised can surely not be part of a
worthy mission given Uganda’s state as compared to its potential.
I can go on and on
without seeing the mission that is worth the challenges President Museveni has
put Uganda into.
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