On my birthday,
October 12, 2014, when I communicated to the people of Uganda and the
International community my wish to stand for President of Uganda in the 2016
elections, my greatest fear was how to get funding through following the
experience of 2010 when I made a similar appeal, but was not able to receive
any dollar. I am convinced that some
interests intervened and made it impossible for me to realize (physically) the
funds that had been donated to boost my campaign then. My fear was real, as up to the Nomination of
Presidential candidates for the 2016 race, I had not got any information from
my bank, Barclays that any funds had been received by them on my behalf given
my efforts.
To answer the
question: “is everything lost?” The fact
is that, I have got more determination to see my country Uganda better. When we are dealing with people who have
stood to benefit after fighting their way to power, and can use the military
and the financial resources (treasury) available plus the ‘wisdom’ of the
unpatriotic Ugandans, by among other things enacting laws to favour their
situation, all you know is that the journey to start on getting Uganda to the Promised
Land has to take a bit longer. I find
myself in a situation where I cannot be sure that any communication I can make
to any person or organization out of Uganda can reach its destination, later on
get response un-intercepted.
When I launched my
wish to contest for President in 2016, I indicated that I needed about shs
60bn. For those who do not understand
what it takes to be a viable candidate for resident, they saw this as a big sum
of money. For a person who is not known
by many (given Uganda’s population where many are rural and illiterate), it
requires substantial sums of money to use all possible means to market oneself
and what one wishes to do for the people.
Some of the candidates who do not make news today in the presidential
race have their biggest problem being finances and not that they do not have
the ideas that can take Uganda ahead.
Following the
Government of Uganda’s role in making it impossible for me to realize the
funding through the channel I had schemed, I am back to the drawing board, and
this time I want to take 5 years to see the people of Uganda eventually guided
on a journey started to get the country to the Promised land.
What I need
urgently to sort is how I can organize to get funding where Uganda Government
will not be able to block my efforts.
When that objective is realized, the programmes locally meant to empower
the people will start. These among
others to include:
i.
Changing the attitude of the people
of Uganda towards work, to see them put much more effort in realizing better
returns and general productivity at work;
ii.
To touch the moral aspect of the
people to move away from being self centered and to think and work for the
betterment of all;
iii.
To jointly fight corruption
tendencies within our midst;
iv.
To look at means of giving support
to efforts of the people to produce more using better skis;
v.
To look at the market aspect and
scheme better;
vi.
To put a side our political beliefs
and instead work together to see a better Uganda with better means of survival
by the population.
If programme vi)
can be realized with time, it should be the basis of the structures needed to
compete for political power in 2021 given life.
So, the quick
answer to: “is everything lost?” It is not as there is the “Uganda Agenda 2021”
spearheaded by myself which hopefully will get operationalized in the course of
2016.
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