
Dear General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni,
I haven’t written an open letter to you in years. As it has felt like a waste of time and surely this is too. However, these words have to be said and even if only one other person get to read it. Hopefully, those words can matter, aspire and be well said.
As a President for decades, as the Head of State and Commander-in-Chief. Everything is within your fingertips. All power and everything of the state is consolidated in your hands. Your decisions and words are law. We have all seen it and your letters can be used as tools or mechanisms to make a change.
It is weird that you as the President sounds like an Opposition figure. That’s how you seem and we can clearly see the difference between your speeches and the reality on the ground. Your actions and the acts of the state isn’t in accordance with what you seek. Especially, if those words out of your mouth have any meaning or are based on something. It is hard to believe that a man of your stature and significance can boil down to an empty pit of nothingness.
Why?
Because you allow others to compromise you and make a mockery of your rule. You are allowing your son to be a brutal man and usage force on innocent civilians. Do you enjoy the pain and suffering of others? Are you happy to see citizens tortured, detained and scorned by their association? Is that who you are?
Is this the NRA/M liberation and what you have become?
Didn’t you fight Amin for the same reasons? Didn’t you fight Obote for the similar reasons too?
Seriously, didn’t you fight for the peasants and to give them democracy. Instead you are misusing power and targeting civilians who happens to wear red. Meanwhile you would bash in glory if they wear your yellow t-shirt.
The ones who had faith and believed that the “Change of Guard” and the New Vision mattered. Well, we have seen that has been forgotten about. As President all principles and all ethos has been lost. President are you proud of betraying everyone around you and everything you stood for? Are you happy to be remembered for blood, sweat and tears? Is that what it all boiled down to?
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni the lives are on the line and the call is upon you. You have amassed it all and you decide in the end. Unless, you cannot discipline your son or inner-circle, but can do it to the future generations to come. The ones that will remember your arrogance, entitlement and usage of force upon them. They will remember how you and your son run a state of terror upon them. That’s what they will remember. These people won’t remember Amin or Obote II government. They will only remember and acknowledge the lessons of Muhoozi and his kind. Is that what you want to be remembered for?
Everything you have done will be written down. Your time and era will be studied as a precaution and a case of the danger of being in power. As they can see how a man changes and becomes a tyrant. That’s who you are and you can change, but that’s possibly to late.
Best regards
Writer of Minbane















