It is pretty clear that the emperor is now naked.

Human Rights Defender
written by Vincent Nuwagaba, April 08, 2009
It is pretty clear that the emperor is now naked. The President has arrogantly shown all and sundry that he cares not about what elite Ugandans say. He now openly lives in pomp, ostantation and pageantry.

It is also clear that the president is no longer bothered about elections for he uses bribery, intimidation, coercion, manipulation and cooption to retain power regardless of whether or not he has anything new to deliver.

I must make it quite clear that as long as some of us are increasingly locked out of opportunities on grounds that we are from the wrong families, it will be difficult for this country to have peace.

It is clear that the President has not only reneged on his promises but has successfully denied this country the opportunity to benefit from the brains it has on merit. No wonder, our country is running down the drain. Its high time we stopped lamenting and embarked on a strenuous campaign to oust M7 and Musevenism. We must use all the available democratic and constitutional means to do this for this country belongs to nobody but us. To those in power, if you make peaceful change impossible, violent change will be inevitable. This is a fact of history that you must always be aware of. The government must realise that it is guilty of criminal negligence for lack of drugs in our hospitals and lack of jobs among our graduates. This deliberate unemployment is partly if not largely responsible for the increase in prostitution and all its associated outcomes. The government must realise that a hopeless, frustrated, desperate population is not in its best interest. This is a population that is very easy to mobilise into rebellion, violent or otherwise for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain from the rebellion. If Dr Besigye sacrificed his job in a Nairobi Hospital, Major General Muntu sacrificed the delicacies in his father's home since his father was a righthand man of President Obote, what would stop a person who has spent all his resources to get educated only to be rendered perpetually jobless from engaging in armed rebellion. Remember, for two decades we have failed to defeat Kony. What would happen if other ten armed rebellions broke out. I am not drumming up for war but echoing the inevitable if people are continually pushed against the walls. The ruling oligarchy must know this. The civil society activists must know this and the donors must know this. How can the donors continue giving aid to a regime that gives no political and economic accountability yet they (donors) are obsessed by talk about good governance. The frustration and hopelessness I have talked about can easily lead to normlessness and lawlessness in which case even the donor agents may fall victim. All actors in the democratisation process must do something to forestall the possibility of our country sinking into anarchy. I am not a prophet of doom but as the Ankore saying goes "ogamba akabi tiwe akareta" meaning he who predicts catastrophe is not the one who causes it.