
“He (Amin) does it with a small clique of idiots and don’t blame the people of West Nile for this. Even when we were fighting Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), it was the same. We told our cadres that don’t blame the people of Northern Uganda- of Acholi, Lango, for the mistakes of Obote. Distinguish between the misleaders and the misled. This is the line of the NRM. Always make a distinction between the misleaders who are few and the misled who are many. Even if they are misled, in most cases, most of the masses aren’t involved at all, it is just a small group of people” – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (29.08.2024).
The predecessors and their achievements is haunting the current ruler. His legacy and his legacy is torn by them. The last victor has since his inception tried to pin everything ill and bad on the predecessors. We have even heard times when he blamed the Colonial British for circumstances and badly performed governance to this day. Therefore, this man will blame everyone else and even the dead.
President Museveni who fought a war to take power. A man who used arms and had a private army. A man who used a rebellion to overcome several heads of state. That man is still blaming the predecessors and the dead. The ones that will analyse his reign. They will see that he has used their tactics, their methods and their means to conquer. He promised to be different, but he has used their means to his end.
President Museveni has found every scheme of the book. His used the years to enrich himself and the cronies surrounding him. While not delivering government services, neither building functioning institutions or government entities. No, he has just made get-rich schemes and come with hallow promises. Meanwhile investing in heavy hardware and ammunition to keep himself in power.
That’s what he has done and in the Second Day of the Parliament Sitting in Gulu. As he came as a visitor and special guest to Parliament. He decided to talk about the President that came from the North. The late Idi Amin Dada and Dr. Milton Obote. Both who he conquered and destroyed to get into office. That’s what he did and he has enlarged himself on their downfall. Trying to forge a narrative and a story to benefit himself. Because that’s all he has… and he needs to vilify them at every turn.
We all know by now. There is little to nothing to show for the 40 years in office. This President haven’t ensured a working society. Heck, this man cannot even be trusted to ensure the Ministry of Health has enough money or functioning systems to secure the delivery of medicines to the government health facilities. There are so many more examples, but it just shows the abysmal track record that Museveni himself has.
That’s why he has to make the predecessors look bad. He needs them to be vindictive and cunning people. This is to make him look better and more pristine. When everyone knows how vicious and sinister his reign is. There are so many skulls that been bashed in his name. So many people who has been silenced and tortured to keep him in office. Plenty of people abducted and kept incommunicado. Therefore, this man has used the state for his benefit and the monopoly of violence to crush whoever stands in his path. That’s who Museveni is and a warlord acts just like this.
A man that took the power by the gun, will end the power by the gun too. Unless, he has an unfortunate demise or is relieved early of his duties. Alas, there is no end in sight… and the glory of 1986 will be told indefinitely. That’s all Museveni has… but it doesn’t make it more true. His just preoccupied rewriting his story and forging a narrative that is beneficial for himself. He needs others to be the villains, so he can be the hero. That’s the gist… and the ghosts are haunting his mind. They have captured his spirit and he cannot be released by them. These ghosts are in his conscience and most like creating nightmares that troubles his every step. Peace.










