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Ethiopia: Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Foreign Affairs Demeke Mekonen letter to Republic of Ireland, Minister of Foreign Affairs & Minister for Defence Simon Coveney (11.10.2022)

Tchad: Presidence de Transition – Direction Generale du Protocole d’Etat de la Presidence – Communique No. 001 (13.10.2022)

Niger: Ministere de la Defense Nationale – Forces Armees Nigeriennes – Etat-Major des Armees – Bulletin des Operations No. 0027 (13.10.2022)

Opinion: Museveni knows the ills, but he doesn’t’ diagnose them correctly…

Bad politics in Uganda produced bad governments which have plunged the country into the present crisis” (Yoweri Kaguta Museveni – Speech at a rally at Kawempe, Kampala, Uganda Times, August 3, 1980).

If President Museveni had been a doctor the patient would either get more sickly or be close to it’s deathbed. Because, every cure he comes up with or adjustment of treatment, things are not getting better, but worse. The body isn’t accepting the pills or the medicine. Neither is it taking in the exercise or the regiment of food. It is just not working and it’s only getting closer to the final breathe.

Right now, Museveni is continuing to enact draconian laws. The latest addition is the Computer Misuse (amendment) Act of 2022 and it follows a string of laws, which is creating lack of rights to assembly, political party freedom and now attacks the liberty of freedom of speech. We know this has been with charging people with either “annoying the President” or “offensive communication”. We have seen how the Public Order Management Act has stifled public gatherings, demonstrations are banned, political party works are monitored and total earth-shattering exposure of the daylight oppression of dissidents. Kidnapping of dissidents, extra-judicial killings and torture is the modus operandi of the authorities. The whole system is gathered and laws are created to silence its critics.

That’s why I have to go back to a speech that Museveni did to the United Nations General Assembly in 1987. This is the start of his reign and early days of his rule. It is significant, because, the ideals of speech and what he was lecturing the world has fallen on deaf ears. His own ears and mind has totally forgotten about this too.

Just read this as a small part of the speech:

A hungry man cannot be said to enjoy a full life~ a sick man is an incomplete human being. The fundamental human rights popularly championed by worthy organizations, such as Amnesty International, important though they are, may well be meaningless or irrelevant to the millions who are tortured from birth by hunger and disease. What we want to point out here is that it is impossible to guarantee the human dignity of the people in a state of poverty, disease, ignorance and economic backwardness. In these circumstances, such efforts will be rendered peripheral to the real human rights problems which, as I have said, are based on the consequences of underdevelopment. It is not enough to speak of human rights in the formal sense of freedom of speech, freedom from arrest and that sort of thing. We must also speak of freedom from hunger, freedom from disease, freedom from living under a leaking roof. There is no way that one can speak of just one quarter of the human rights of man and forget about three quarters” (United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) – Address by Mr. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda, 21.10.1987).

I am sure the people of Karamoja is agreeing in 2022 that it’s more important to eat than having the rights to speak. However, after 36 years in power he haven’t even settled this. We are not seeing someone who has developed or helped the basics. While he has achieved a total control and stifling civil society, political participation and whatnot. The President has diagnosed the political sphere but not secured the hungry man in the streets. No, the President has failed in his own mission.

President Museveni haven’t helped people out of poverty. Neither has the nation gone forward or been developed in nature, which he should have after all these years. The mediocrity of the Musevenism is so clear. That this old man hasn’t listened to himself in his youth. He has betrayed all the ideals and pseudo-intellectualism, which he professed to early in his reign.

The recent legislation that has been made in the 2010s and 2020s are just proving how his fallen from what he regarded as important early on. It just proves that the freedom of speech matters. It proves that the freedom of assembly matters. It proves that the freedom to congregate and to demonstrate matters. All the things that the President has taken away. He said these things mattered in the past, but now? He couldn’t care less and isn’t bothered by it.

The President can call people parasites and promise to crush people. Though if you retaliate, you will be punished and he will have another national address the next week. Museveni will not face these laws, but you the civilian? Your in the firing line and this regime doesn’t care. They are only in it to eat and take away everything from you. In the end you have the air your breathe and the taxes you pay them. If you go out of the “correct line” you will be captured and you will be lost forever. Peace.

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