Museveni has lost the legitimacy to lead the people of Uganda

Having witnessed the brutality unleashed on the citizens of Uganda today, young men being shot indescriminately through the eyes by snipers too ready to do his biding, it is ironic that he wants to continue with the invitation of the heads of states to come and congratulate him on a presidency won through the buying of votes from poor people.

The Ugandan people have stomached too much violence and death at Museveni’s watch- from the Luweero triangle killing fields to the encapment of the Acholi people, where multitudes were relegated to these camps to perish. Every institution that was once vibrant and working in the nation has become stunted, orphaned or corrupted under his auspices.
He has failed to strike a working discourse or dialogue with the opposition and those in the progressive camps to provide joint practical solutions to a myriad of problems facing Uganda. He has become insular and far removed from the main stream, where he would rather spend the little resources in the treasury to buy additional instruments of war, torture and repression, while those stricken by poverty are left to die due to lack of medicines supplies, services and other essential commodities.

He has definitely failed to impress it upon himself, his security operatives and those in his immediate sphere of influence to govern the country through constitutional means. His continued disregard of the constitution as the supreme law of the land has caused the country to revert back to tyrannical days- where the judiciary and the legislature provided no checks or balances to an executive that had run amok.

Our common aspirations and hopes for a better Uganda will never wane – these continued acts of torture, death and violence against the citizens of Uganda under Mr. Museveni, can only serve to strengthen our resolve to have him out of office, and to further emphasize a well established fact that he has completely lost the legitimacy to lead the people of Uganda.

Tendo Kaluma
Ugandan in Boston

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