Opinion: The NRM needs billions of shillings to monitor itself and educate people to love it…

The Office of the President is also seeking for Shs5.517Bn to monitor and evaluate the NRM Manifesto, Shs2.058Bn to monitor Cabinet Decisions, Shs4.7Bn to monitor the Parish Development Model” (…) “The Office of the President has requested Parliament to avail it with Shs4.5Bn to train 225,000 Ugandans on patriotism ideology and conduct mindset change within 20 Communities in the coming 2024/25” (Parliament Watch, 05.01.2024).

It is a strange time to be alive, as the Office of the President is avail its needs for the future. That it needs about 12 billion shillings to monitor it’s manifesto, cabinet decisions and the PDM at once. This is expenditure and needs of the state. The state needs to spend billions of shilling to assess and review its own work.

That’s not governance or having oversight of matters. This is just adding expenses and not using government controller or the State House Controller for that matter. There should be Attorney Generals, the IGG or the PPDA to help out. Heck, the FIA and other organizations should help out too. This is why the OAG in the past dropped “value for money” reports and checked into the government expenditure. Which is why monitoring units seems like a duplication. It is just bananas.

12 billion spent on monitor various acts of government. This is wasted of the state reserves and the public coffers. Imagine, billions of shillings spent and justified to ensure you keep up to your manifesto. That the cabinet is actually acting accordingly to the pledges and promises of the past. Secondly, that the PDM is followed and enacted upon. It is just amazing really…

While we are on wastage, the state itself plans to “re-educate” or teach people about patriotism. That has to be budgeted for and needs further funding in the billions of shillings too. This costs 4,5 billion shillings alone. Meaning the state plans to pay people to “teach” it and “lecture” people about loving their nation. That’s what it really means, but also being patriotic in the “right way” which the “NRM way”. Not like they doesn’t have access to speeches going back to the 1980s of the President and could just make a silly leaflet of it, aye?

The NRM and the Office of the President doesn’t care really. In all practicality… this is just dumb. It is insane that they want to do it this way and spend billions upon billions on it. That they whole heartedly is selling it and want people to buy into it. We are just supposed to believe in all this monitoring. When we will read stories of ghosts, missing funds and whatnot. We will see potholes and lack of government services, regardless of the agents monitoring whatever in sight. That’s just what’s happening. So what are they doing?

They are just making creative budgeting and hoping people fall for it. As it is various and nefarious ways of tricking the numbers. Just to make the budget bigger and find ways to siphon funds. Because, who works with this monitoring and where is the mechanism checking on them?

Well, we don’t know and no one is telling. They just needs these funds and the state just got to pay the Office of the President. Even if nothing is done or achieved. This have at least given the entity some more funds, which will be spent. However, it will not serve a purpose or interests of the society. No, this is ensuring someone is eating and everyone else is supposed to be happy with that. Peace.

Opinion: Mr. President, it’s your policies from the 1990s that made Busoga poor…

I have been peeping through my car window as I travelled here for this function and I have kept wondering to myself how do these people (in Busoga sub region) live through this sort of poverty? I have screened through all these villages where I have passed but the houses and all the other things I have seen have left me wondering how it’s possible for our people [in Busoga] to survive through these hard economic conditions”– President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (18.11.2023).

We are living in 2023 and the generations that saw the implementation of the Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) are old, bitter or forgotten about. They saw the implications and the costs of doing so. The privatization and liberalization of the economy, which was the stipulations of the Bretton Woods Organizations and getting loans in the 1990s. This was at a time when President Museveni himself was a “new breed” of leadership and even a President that Bill Clinton spoke kindly of.

However, those days are gone, decades later and the grim realities of the effects of those policies are now coming to haunt the government. Industries and the industrial hub of Jinja city died as a cause of this. State owned and operated Cooperatives ceased to exist, sold or just dissolved. The ones thriving industries was sold for scraps and are now a jaded memory. While it was decades one of the points and cities that pumped foreign currency and created wealth.

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) and President Museveni earned fortunes on the loans, grants and the SAPs. They got favours and favourable terms for the central government, but the businesses, state owned enterprises or cooperatives had to adjust to new terms. Which inflicted harm and damage, which have never been able to heal.

That why this was reported earlier in the year:

According to the Busoga Development Agenda (BDA), Busoga’s economic collapse is partly a result of the collapse of Jinja’s industrial prowess due to the 1994 privatization policy and weakening of the cooperative movement in Busoga, a disunited political leadership and cultural leadership differences that destabilized the role of the Kyabazingahood as a rallying point for the unity of Busoga after the demise of the late His Royal Highness Henry Wako Muloki” (Busoga Today – ‘Development and Economic Empowerment’, 22.07.2023).

If you ever wonder how the process and the sales was done by the National Resistance Movement (NRM). Well, it is done like it has always been done. It has been done with favours and within own ranks, the NRM Way. The way of the President and his inner-circle. They are getting bargains and good deals or a trade for loyalty. That’s what Museveni does and he can sell of anything, if it benefits him and his time in office. He don’t care if a hotel goes bust or gets sold for scraps. Museveni don’t mind if a factory or a cooperative gets locked in and gets worse ownership. No, he sold something and return he got a loyal crony. That’s the business model and that how you destroy industries and production.

Just read this one here from an Academic Paper in 2011:

During the privatization process at least seven (9%) out of 74 SOEs were undervalued and sold to government employees costing government Shs. 4.3 billion (US$2.2) (over US$2,152,000 at US$=Shs.2, 000).xxxvi Undervaluation (AV>SP) was calculated as the excess of asset value (AV) over the sales price (SP). The undervaluation was explained by politics and weak private sector. First, the ruling party supporters included cabinet ministers, presidential advisers, National Resistance Movement (NRM) supporters and Members of Parliament (MPs). In order to marshal political support, the ruling NRM either undervalued or condoned default” (…) “Second, undervaluation was expected even before sale if the locals were to buy SOEs. What was not expected, however, was the preferred sale of the SOEs to NRM cadres and family members of President Museveni. Before sale, it was realized that the locals would not be able to buy all assets offered for privatization. Total SOE assets exceeded all the amount of money in the Ugandan Banks. While total SOEs assets were valued at Shs. US$ 1 m (Shs. 200 billion), the entire money supply was just shs. 50 billion and bank deposits stood at shs. 46 billion end of January 1989” (David Kibikyo – ‘Fiscal impact of privatization in Uganda 1992-2007’ July 2011, African Journal of Political Science and International Relations Vol. 5(7), pp. 371-387).

So, when the NRM comes to town and Busoga and says “vote for NRM we bring development”. Well, in regards to the Busoga sub-region. The NRM has brought the opposite. The President and his policies from the 1990s and early 1980s are the destructive means, which destroyed the industries of Jinja. That’s a fact and the sale of SOEs didn’t benefit the sub-region either. It was a drive to keep the inner-circle happy and the enrich his family. That’s what the gist of the privatization, which hurt Busoga and other owned state owned enterprises across the Republic.

The President can act like a visitor and as a stranger to Busoga in 2023. However, it is his will and his choices that put them there. He decided to take the International Monetary Funds (IMF) and World Bank (WB) funds that entailed the SAPs. The President didn’t mind the implications and complied, as he saw positive outcomes… profits internally and externally become beloved. Because, he followed “Washington Consensus” and traded the future of the nation for a few silver coins. That’s what he did and now his blaming the Busoga in part for their poverty. When he can be blamed and should carry a heavy burden for doing so. Peace.

The Misadventure of Samuel Walter Mukaaku Lubega…

I wasn’t invited to the NUP headquarters unveiling, but I guess they just forgot. However, my input in the formation of People Power was immense. If NUP has a mother, I am the mother” – Lubega Mukaaku (07.11.2023).

Sometimes, someone should be happy that they were that close, but they were still that far. There was a reason why Mukaaku Lubega was an aspiring Member of Parliament for Rubaga South Division and ended up running on a Social Democratic Party ticket. He wasn’t the flag-bearer for the People Power Movement or the National Unity Platform (NUP). No, he ran on the SDP and the Democratic Party Block (DP Block) ticket of sorts.

He really thought he was special and had a unique role. A somewhat “main character” syndrome and being the character of your own movie. Where you are the one who makes the changes and who has the ability to make a difference. Alas, that wasn’t the case and he even caused a stir from within. Not only is his barking and tongue twisting rhetoric, after Bobi Wine didn’t follow-up or care to join the DP Block. He saw it for what it was and left it behind. While Mukaaku Lubega was already invested in it and had a role. Regardless of the pressure group standing or even possibility of gaining a momentum.

We can understand that the man wants to be seen as vital person. He desperately wanted to a MP and be respected by the NUP. In the People Power Movement he wanted to be seen as an achiever and become a voice. However, his own blind ambition and lack of self-control possibly destroyed it all.

You know it is bad when the NUP sacks you outright and take your out of a race. There is something shady then and something not acting right. It had to be the character and smelling trouble. This is why the NUP fielded Mukasa Aloysius Talton Gold who won with over 49,000 votes, wile Lubega himself got only 719 votes. Therefore, the NUP did the right choice and picked a more suited candidate.

When you write this in July 2023 to Bobi Wine: “The public has many doubts and is asking many questions. It needs answers. There is a growing feeling that the struggle is off the rails rendering no hope for change. There is need to have a frank reflection and evaluation of the past period, if possible correct mistakes and clarify the above unsettling developments in order to regain public confidence . We in the DP BLOC too need clarity on these issues to adequately inform our decision on our next course” (Lubega, 2023).

We can just see where he stands and what role his playing. A man who sought distrust and trying to discredit the NUP and the People Power Movement. It was within reason that NUP in their time did sack him outright. Maybe not in the best manner, but the way they saw fight. Because, they knew he was a liability. That’s why he wants to be of vast importance now.

He wants glory and tell tales of old. Since he was in meetings and interviews. He was canvassing votes and trying to drum up support. Yes, he did so, but so did plenty others and they didn’t try to aim for roles or titles. However, you sought for that and got that in the DP Block. A place where you belonged and where you had history as a Young Democrat of sorts. Therefore, this tale today is bonkers and beneath you.

Lubega should know better, but apparently his not. Well… main character syndrome is powerful and can distort someone vision. Peace.

Opinion: You can apparently besiege a place, but not open it…

“I blocked NUP from unveiling its Kavule Headquarters because president Museveni shall be in Kawempe tomorrow and you know he needs people to be ferried to his processions. When we allow NUP to proceed, Museveni may not have people to attend his function,”~Kawempe Dep. RCC Ndidde” (The Kampala Journal, 01.11.2023).

Uganda Police and the army earlier today deployed heavily at the have deployed heavily at the new opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) offices in Kawempe Division where the party president Robert Kyagulanyi and other members had planned to officially open today” (STV Uganda, 02.11.2023).

The Uganda Police Force, the high ranking officials and whoever was in-charge of the security detail surrounding the new Headquarters of the National Unity Platform (NUP) has lost the plot. Seriously. It is just dumb and the reasoning was foolish.

Telling 48 hours in advance that the NUP had to find another date to get accommodated too. Because, the authorities and the security couldn’t handle it. Alas, here is problem with saying that. When you in advance of the scheduled opening has besieged the plot and the compound. In such a fashion that no entry is possible. That’s what the authorities did today and they had plenty of guards, police officers and soldiers alert. Meaning, the authorities could have ensured the safety of the NUP and let them open the Party Headquarters. However, that wasn’t the order and that’s why the Party was forced to wait to tomorrow.

The authorities aren’t that wise here. Neither are they showing any finesse. The President is making himself look unpopular too. As he knows the people would surround the NUP Headquarters and not at his function. That’s why his appointee had to serve him and block the NUP from opening up their own offices. It just shows the ironies of life and how “one man” rules them all.

This wasn’t to safe-guard or benefit the people. No, this was all done to serve His Excellency. Not to secure and make it right for the NUP. The state and the President had a plan, which was so important that everything else had to stop. Because, if it didn’t he would look humiliated and alone. The state handlers and the servants of the President couldn’t let that happen. Which is why the NUP had to pay a price and open their offices on another day.

It is just really amusing that the RCC and the Authorities stated they didn’t have the manpower to secure and facilitate the opening. When they had enough soldiers and police officers to ensure a rigged election out there. They had enough officers to stop all movement and traffic, if they wanted too. However, the same guards, officers and soldiers couldn’t ensure the safety and the opening. That is just ridiculous!

The emperor is naked. The foolishness of the oppressor has no end. This is the democracy and the freedoms that the National Resistance Movement (NRM) abides by. It is how they roll and people just have to accept it. Peace.

National Unity Platform (NUP): NUP Institutions – Press Release (26.10.2023)

Opinion: One rule for Zaake MP, another rule for others MPs…

Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa has been forced to adjourn Parliament until next week after some MPs attempted to assault Zaake accusing him of making defamatory remarks against Kinyamatama, thus prompting the Opposition MPs to shield Zaake from being lynched. When the NRM Female MPs saw Zaake exit the Parliament chambers, they ambushed him in an attempt to beat him up, but the Seargent at Arms & some Opposition MPs rescued Zaake and moved him out” (Parliament Watch, 12.10.2023).

MP Juliet Kinyamatama has accused fellow legislator Francis Zaake of defamation. This forced Deputy Speaker, Mr Thomas Tayebwa to suspend Parliament for 10 minutes. “Let that video be played, I want the world to see what he said, why are we covering evil? An attack on a woman is an attack on all of us as female MPs. I have been keeping my cool, but I want this house to see what exactly happened. We can’t cover men that don’t respect women. I can’t be called what he called me,” Kinyamatama said on Thursday” (933 KFM, 12.10.2023).

Whatever Francis Zaake MP does… gets him into trouble. He cannot act as an politician and be active. If the National Resistance Movement (NRM) gets their way. They will easily banish him from Parliament and this is the latest move.

The Speaker and others has already tried to muffle him. They took away his role as Commissioner and haven’t allowed him to return. This is happening after the courts has re-instated him. So, it is convenient that it happens now.

Zaake MP is a politician from the People Power Movement and a close ally of Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine. A man who has been tarnished and been looked down upon, because of his loyalty and that his such a firebrand in the National Unity Platform (NUP). They wouldn’t have gone after him this much, if they didn’t fear what he represents and who his associated with.

Because, yes the words he used in Rakai district wasn’t beautiful. They were harsh and derogatory. However, if the Woman MP has such troubles with this. Why don’t she speaks to the President who has called the Opposition for “cockroaches, pigs, parasites” and the list goes on. He has talked about crushing and ending it plenty of times. In fashions and means, which are much more harsher than what Zaake MP ever was. Therefore, if the NRM wants to lecture anyone. Look at your master and what he says.

Yes, the words can hurt and yes they can feel critical. Regardless of that, the Kinyamatama MP is issuing motion to vacate the Mityana MP and calling for a recall. That is censoring his words and stopping him from acting in his best interest. This is something she wouldn’t allow herself or her members in the NRM. That’s why you know his a pawn and they hope to take him off the board completely. It’s how I perceive it, because nothing else has worked.

Zaake MP is a target and has been one. That has been obvious for years and he has been in the firing-line by association. He has dared to be on the barricades and has gotten little for it. Except a lot of pain and hardships.

She herself should be careful and she wasn’t acting in good faith either. When they inside the chamber today tried to lynch him. Who in their right mind does that? Especially, when the MP just issues a motion and wants her case heard like this. When we know the Parliament is in favour of going after him after all. That’s been done once already in the 11th Parliament and this would have been the second time in this term alone.

The Rakai District MP should ask herself… can she always carry her words and her actions? Will she always act honourable and not say something out of spite or order? Especially in a rally or to crowds to spread a political message? I doubt she’s that sort of person… when she can easily start lynching and call for his demise on the steps of Parliament. Like she is the voters of Mityana district. They are the ones that voted him in and they are the ones his responsible for.

While Zaake MP has his antics and has to be responsible for them. There are civil court cases that matters and not having plenary sessions discussing this. Unless, the August House has become a place for petty infighting and intrigue. Not a place of government business and legislation. Because, there are plenty of tragedies and needs that isn’t met in the Republic.

However, the Rakai Woman MP is more important than government business. That’s why the Plenary Session had to be ajourned, as they was so close to lynch Zaake MP. It is just tragic how things are operating and done in the chambers. They are just violating on the turf, but trying to implement the outstanding rules for others on the outside. Rules and ethical codes we know the NRM wouldn’t bound themselves by. Because, that would mean the President had to bite his tongue and talk more softly. Alas, that will never happen. Peace.

Opinion: Mpuuga won’t get it his way…

Those actions should never be repeated because they have no space in law and common sense. We aren’t going to look on as we see politics become vulgar and NRM is happy about disrespecting our party offices, including stopping the opposition from doing a simple act of humility which is prayer, and in their warp wisdom, praying is an illegality and therefore we need their permission” – Leader of Opposition (LoP) Mathias Mpuuga (11.10.2023).

This morning, the Opposition Caucus convened to chart a way forward following yesterday’s walkout from #PlenaryUg. We reiterated our demand that the regime offers an explanation in regard to the continued violation of the rights of various Opposition supporters and leaders as well as the seige on NUP headquarters. We also demand that the government apologises to the Opposition parties and the respective leaders for the brutality and other violations. We also demand that the perpetrators be brought to book plus a commitment from the government that such violations will not be repeated” (Mpuuga, 11.10.2023).

The Leader of Opposition is right that the actions of the government is wrong. The authorities are in the wrong in the way they are kidnapping, arresting, keeping civilians incommunicado, charging in military court, besieging NUP Headquarters and even house arresting Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine. All of that is wrong and the National Resistance Movement (NRM) continues to thrive on it.

The state has monopolized violence and it has no issues to orders that reflects just that. They have no bounds or no end to the brutality. The state just continues to serve the dissidents, the detractors or the ones who opposes it. That’s what it does and it has perfected it over the decades. The drones is known for a reason and families don’t know where their loved ones even are. That’s the state of affairs and it will not stop.

The NRM will not beg for mercy or give a plea, because if it does.. it will say that it knows its wrong and they are acting outside of constitutional order. Which is beneath its character, especially when the President is so proud of that constitution. That is one of the few achievements that still exists to this day. He can not be in defiance to his own laws and regulation, which is what he does and he has no scruples doing so.

Mpuuga knows all of this and it seems like publicity. We have seen the threats of not participating or being parts of the plenary sessions. That haven’t done them any favours and only been a useless protest. The same will come out of this one. Especially, when the NRM and their allies will have a majority. They don’t need the opposition or their MPs to get things done in the August House. That is deliberate and they are minority by default. Therefore, the LoP is bound to loose either way.

He does this… because he doesn’t have that many cards to play with. Neither is there lots of wiggle room. They won’t loose much or the stakes aren’t that high. Yes, they get to display their grievances to the public. However, they are losing out on debates and the business of Parliament. Therefore, there is nothing to gain here. Only being useless and the MPs should be better.

They are already in pickle by participating in the “multi-democracy” that Museveni has created. The hybrid regime that are hallow and in the end is in the hands of the President. They are just his puppets and when he plays the music they got to dance. That’s the story and they will sooner or later return to Parliament. However, the kidnappings, torture or extra judicial killings will not stop.

It haven’t in the past and it will not happen now. There is no leverage or reason for the regime to stop this practice. As long as they can get away with it and bear no consequences of doing so. They are above the law and can be lethal. Therefore, the LoP is cornered and can only do these theatrics.

It won’t amount to anything and sooner or later he will dance to the tune of the dictator. Because they are in his web and he can sting at any given time. Peace.

Bobi Wine’s Return: We knew Bobi Wine would be in trouble…

The announced 1 million march was the signal that the authorities needed to strike. They knew when Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine would arrive at Entebbe International Airport. That meant they could plan the day and ahead of time coordinate all the different security units in- and around the greater Kampala Metropolitan Area. This meant they could fix the roadblocks, ensure extensive safety procedures surrounding the airport and everything else.

That is why so many journalists, activists, MPs and others was scorned today as well. Because, this was bound to go down. There are many who are in jail right now for participating or trying to greet Bobi Wine at Entebbe. They are now punished for saying “hello” to someone. That is the gist of things and others behind bars just by mere association with the National Unity Platform (NUP).

That’s why scores of people are behind bars. While Bobi Wine himself is under house-arrest and we don’t know for how long. We know they will keep him there a while now and do it longer than the 48 hours stipulated by law. However, that doesn’t count for dissidents, but only for others. That we have seen over the years and the same procedure happens again and again.

Today was no difference… today was like it was scripted. We could write it in advance and he was arrested on the tarmac. Whisked away by security operatives and later dropped off in his own home in Magere, Wakiso District. Where the security guards of the home was ruffled with and the roads going to Bobi Wine was also besieged. That’s just how these stories goes and later we will know all the various charges pinned on people for today. There will be all sort of foolery going on, as we know the gist, but they cannot say that out loud. That would against the constitution and the rights to assembly, which means the state or authorities has to find other excuses for the detained people.

Some says today should be lesson. Well, it is return of the same old problems. The same state and its authorities that bashes itself in glory at Kololo Independence Grounds, but outside of that is going totally crazy against the dissidents. That happened at the same time and within the same city. One place there was happy speeches and glorious state affairs. While minutes away people was arrested, brutally detained and others was blocked by the police. Roads are sealed off and people using longer time to commute. Therefore, today was a bad day and not a learning experience.

Not like we haven’t seen this movie before under Museveni. This is a return of a well known chapter and franchise in the NRM Way. We have gotten to know this reoccurring events and they transpire like this. While the cronies and appointed leadership will downplay the whole ordeal or make it insignificant. We still saw what lengths they go to stop one man from not only entering as an ordinary civilian, but letting him assemble people or generate a welcoming ceremony. That is obviously a cardinal sin and only H.E. can have his entourage at Entebbe. The rest have to peasants and idle nobodies who cannot interfere in his sphere.

That’s why we know Bobi Wine would be in trouble. The moment the NUP announced the plans for a special return. That’s when we knew this was in the cards and the deck was shuffled in his disadvantage. There was nothing for Bobi Wine to gain. His getting sympathy and people know his troubles. He challenge the Gods, but they are unforgiving. They are relentless and will not give way. No, that’s not happening anytime soon.

Today is another proof of that. As long as the centre holds… there is little to nobody who can conquer it. Especially with soft-power and with usage of people power. No, that will not overcome it and not at this speed. The nation is numb and has seen these sorts of things play out so many times before. Without any changes and after a few days of house-arrest. Nothing will be any different and things will go back to normal. Because, that what matters… and Bobi Wine has continue the fight without getting anything out of it. Only a few headlines and some international press writing about it. However, elsewhere there is nothing to gain and there will be little fanfare. Only more of the same.

H.E. will prosper and others will suffer. Just like yesterday and the day before. Peace.

World Liberty Congress (WLC): WLC Calls for the immediate Release of Bobi Wine (05.10.2023)

Bobi Wine’s Return: UPF confirms his journey home…

We wish to inform the public that the NUP President, Hon. Kyagulanyi Robert was successfully escorted by our security team from Entebbe to his home in Magere. He reached his home around 11.20am, and is with his family and friends. Disregard rumors of his arrest by propagandists. Meanwhile, business activities and movements along Entebbe road, within Kampala and Gayaza, are flowing smoothly” (Uganda Police Force, 05.10.2023).

You cannot propagandize this one, the UPF is out of line and so is the authorities. If this was as peaceful and planned. The same ones wouldn’t arrest mobilizers the day ahead. Neither would journalists be arrested or other MPs for that matter. The authorities would act like this in Entebbe, Wakiso or in Kampala. Therefore, the downplay of their actions is infuriating.

If the authorities wanted things to be smooth. He would have checked in with immigration, gone through ordinary protocol as a traveller at an international airport and picked up his luggage before getting into a vehicle there. However, that was never the plan and the authorities arrested him with force on the tarmac of Entebbe International Airport. The pictures and videos are out going viral. Just showing what the state did. So, there is no turning backsies now.

This here just show what sort of oppression the state is up too and its a not a good look. They are just displaying it for the world to see. The citizens can see it too and that’s why they fear as well. Because, they will be in the slammer and we know the state bears grudges. That’s why people are behind bars today that was arrested during campaigns in 2020 and never been released to this day. It is just the way the regime operates in regard to Bobi Wine.

That’s why today is just a symbol of his rise to power and popularity. If they didn’t fear him. They wouldn’t act this way. If his voice didn’t matter, they wouldn’t send squadrons and officers in this manner. Therefore, we know Bobi Wine is important and is well regarded. That his political ambition and message is heard.

It is just tragic and we can wonder what excuses that will come next. We know that there will be MPs on bonds and Journalists too. Activists that will fight to be released, but will linger in jail because of today. That’s just normalcy under this regime. We have seen it before and it just continues…

It is tiring and exhausting, especially when the authorities could just let a man travel home. However, that’s too much to ask. Peace.