ACCORDING TO Lt. GENERAL MUHOOZI KAINERUGABA’S TWEETS, LOOKS LIKE HE IS EYEING THE PRESIDENCY AND IS ALMOST SURE HE WILL GET IT AT THE RIGHT TIME.
I have for years avoided getting concerned with what goes on in Lt. General Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s circles and Tweets, and making comments, but because I love Uganda and that the General went to an elite school I was groomed in St. Mary’s College, Kisubi (SMACK) I would not love to see Uganda through turbulent times under the hands of an Old Boy of SMACK.
There is a style or nature his father President Museveni has done his things where Ugandans have many times been surprised or taken off guard by his moves. When NRA/M captured power in 1986, President Museveni had the credentials to be President given his roles in Uganda liberation struggles of Ugandan dating back to his school days. If God grants him life, by the end of his current term, he will have been President for 40 years. But, when NRM captured power, it was like he was to be in office for 3 years and hopefully, would take on other roles. Through his scheming and being secretive and calculative, by the time of the expiry of his current term, he will have multiplied his initial expected term in office by 13 plus 1 year.
The Lt. General needs a lot of lessons if he seriously wants the Presidency of Uganda at some moment in time. One thing he ought to know is that Ugandans wanted a change in the Presidency as far back as 2016, however, President Museveni has schemed to be in office after the Constitutional safeguards were removed by the Parliament of Uganda. Some people believe that he may come back in 2026 given that he still has unfinished business in Uganda, East Africa and the whole of Africa.
There is no way therefore that Ugandans can elect Lt. General Muhoozi in a free and fair elections if President Museveni decides to retire. This I can assure the General because I know what is on ground.
The best Lt. General Muhoozi can do as of now is to be behind a person who is seen by Ugandans not to be corrupt and can easily be marketed to the youth who form the majority of the electorate and who seriously want positive change.
The General should get consultants to advise on a number of things. Among the areas which need to be handled are:
1. Employment of the youth. Uganda has the potential to see many youth employed, but the strategies in place are wrong. Muhoozi, given his influence should help to see that the representation in Parliament gets to about 200 or less MPs. The patronage schemes like having District Women Representatives should be scrapped as well as many other small group representatives in Parliament.
2. The corruption In Uganda in whatever way it manifests itself needs to be addressed so that taxpayer resources are put to the right sectors that promote growth and eventual economic development.
3. Service delivery by Government is poor partly because many Government workers don’t have the incentives and in many cases the means to execute their work. With resources saved on reducing Parliament size, greatly reducing on monies stolen, doing away with RDCs, it is possible to pay Government workers better and also improve infrastructure like schools, hospitals to mention a few.
4. Ugandans want to see security forces that see Ugandans as the one’s responsible for their welfare and hence treating them humanly.
In a nutshell, it is not possible for Lt. General Muhoozi Kainerugaba to be given votes to take the Presidency of Uganda in a free and fair elections after President Museveni, because many Ugandans want a change that is new in nature which the General is not capable of nurturing and cannot be trusted to deliver.
However, General Muhoozi stands chance to come successfully through an election after an interval of at least 5 years after the one who may take office when President Museveni retires.
If the General does scheme that he has to be President immediately after his father is out of office, I can see a turbulent Uganda possibly worse than what Ugandan have witnessed before.
I REST MY CASE
FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY.
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