President Museveni deserves honor
They go abroad talk ill about him, come back and settle in their homes peacefully.
Op-Ed: I extend my thanks to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for the change he has brought to Uganda in all aspects. I also thank him for being a parent to most Ugandans, even if some are trying to undermine his working capacity.
I recommend that President Museveni deserves an honor, and therefore he is a hero. I will stand to be corrected by anyone above my age who thinks what I’m going to write here is false.
Since independence, we have had more presidents ruling Uganda. Some Ugandans have praised the previous regimes due to reasons which I don’t know, some saying Amin Dada was the best president, others say Obote was good, and others say we have never had a good leader in Uganda. I want to bring the little experience I have about the previous regimes and make a comparison to the current government. At the end, we shall realize the NRM government is better, though there are some challenges of corruption and land grabbing.
During the Obote regime, my father, who is late, went to pay graduated tax at the subcounty in Muhorro, now a town council, but when he reached Nyamiti about two kilometers to Muhorro, the then subcounty headquarters, a TATA truck that had the government army on board stopped, and my father was asked to draw near the truck.
When he drew near, an army officer who sat in front asked the father to surrender all that he had to him. The end was to take the money that was meant for graduated tax. My father remained with no option; he went back home without paying the tax because the government army had stolen the money.
Secondly, my father sent for a radio set from Kampala. Remember those days all things were bought from Kampala city, but because of many roadblocks in the roads by the government army and the way the army used to steal from Wanainchi, the radio set was not bought in fear of losing it to the army at the roadblocks.
The only SANYO radio we got was sneaked from Fort Portal, which Jajja bought for my father. Thirdly, my cousin brother was one time riding a bicycle; he met 30 army officers on the way, and the army officers sat down and instructed him to start ferrying one by one to their barracks until he got exhausted and collapsed.
The 4th incident happened to our neighbor John Tibategyeza, who had some good income and is a coffee farmer in our area. During that time he built a house roofed with iron sheets (remember those days most people had grass-thatched houses), but almost every 2 weeks we could hear bullets at his home by government army men coming to scare him away so that they may take his belongings, including coffee harvested that season.
Since 1962, if you happened to show interest in becoming president of Uganda, the first thing to do is to go to the bush and overthrow the ruling president; if you fail, then sure deal, you will never appear in the community; instead, you have to go to exile until death, which is not the case now.
No one could dare to stand for the presidency, fearing being forced into exile. Instead, President Museveni has met his opponents several times, and some are invited to serve with him in the same government, which was not there during the previous governments.
They go abroad talk ill about him, come back and settle in their homes peacefully.
Those who would be termed rebels are freely enjoying the breeze of Uganda while others are making propaganda about our country. For that matter, therefore, I call President M7 a chosen leader by God. Many of us have learned that a leader is elected by people after showing interest.
Ugandans have contested for the presidency without any hindrances. I conclude by saying that since Museveni has been a good leader for decades, let’s prepare General Muhoozi Kainerugaba to take over from him when he retires. M7 now, MK next.
The author is Ikiriza Zephania Atwooki, publicity secretary for PLU Buliisa District.
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