
“My appeal to Ugandans especially politicians and the public servants is to understand the role of industrialization but also understand the role of investors; don’t waste their time” (…) “Don’t waste their time. Wasting their time is nonreligious, support them so that they move quickly because we have nothing to lose but everything to gain. This factory here is not in India but in Uganda, it is employing our people here, using our electricity, and water, and even if he takes the profits away, it will be only 10 percent of the value of the earnings” – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (21.09.2023).
Well, I know it is pointless to say this, but ever since General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni went into office on the 26th January 1986, he has wasted people’s time and efforts. That is 13,752 days or 37 years and 7 months, or 451 months just to put things in a perspective.
For someone who has been in office for over three decades and ticking close to four. He should be a bit more wiser with his words. Especially when his the cause and the affect for most of it. His the guy that decrees, micro-manage and makes a final decision. The Presidents own directives and letters can change a matter quickly. Therefore, it is rich that he speaks of wasting time or doing things with haste.
When we know he involves himself and wants his cut. We know the investors has to be guided to the State House or through procedures, which entails the authorities, the state and whoever the President has anointed for the matter. That’s how these things goes and no deal is made without his prior authorization or thumbs up.
President Museveni can act or blame civil servants, but these are only following the strings and the organization he has created for them. The mandates, the budgets and the manpower, which he has decided or allowed to happen by proxy. In the end, it’s his government and his party that has the final say. It all is in his hands and he can by the strike of the pencil change things rapidly. He can appoint a governor of the Bank of Uganda whenever he deems fit. That he has proven and his happy to have an interim one there after the death of the previous one.
This is why it’s rich to hear that Museveni lectures people on time wasting. When his the sole proprietor of time wasting management. His the one and only who stifles, stops and put the breaks on things. The President is the one that made the system and has altered it in his ideals. It is his creation of the bloated and duplicated government institutions. That’s all on him and he makes things hectic because of it. There is so many cooks and everyone needs to get their stamps of approval. Therefore, who is he kidding here?
The President is the ones that offers tax-holidays and handshakes. His the ones that is allowing dubious deals and vast scandals. This is why the rot starts from the head. The wasting of time starts with him. It’s his laziness and overbearing nature that is the cause of it. He might not see it himself. But we do… and we have seen it for years.
The President can lecture people, but the lectures is also a mirror into his own failures. That’s because he cannot let go or doesn’t have the capacity to handover responsibility over to others. Only to do so… by the look of it, but he does the final decision in end. This is why things takes time and he knows it.
Sooner or later a letter will decide what happens. The Parliament and the other entities can have their say. However, when that letter is published and gotten to right authority. They just have to listen and change their ways fast…. Peace.










