Guys, His Excellence Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has been
around for fifty years. Just in case you were complaining that the man has been
around for too long- 27 which when rounded off to the nearest tens makes it 30
years, it is time to wake up. According to Museveni, in response to bwana
Tinkasimire who was complaining about his alleged “over-stay” in power, 30 are
the years he has spent in town. He spent some twenty years in the village
fighting to come to town which in total makes it fifty years.
Now I know many of you
thought over that statement and it just did not seem to make any sense in your
minds. The fact that the NRM day celebrations were moved from 27th to 30th January for whatever reason means you will even think about this more. But that is why I am here struggling to write this. I want to open your
eyes to the real truth behind the statement on which I have mediated for close
to a month now.
We shall start with an
exposition on the statement concerning the allegation of spending “20 years in
the bush and thirty years here in town.” Now it is pertinent that we understand that asking
Mzee to leave power is literally sending him out of town back to the bush and
which in my little understanding would mean going back to the village because
the bushes of this world only exist in villages. So what Museveni was trying to
say is that tada mukyaalo and which
resolution I support. No one wants to come from the village and go back there.
If you think I am lying ask Judith Babirye why she sang that song Omukisa gwa Mukama and why she
particularly includes those lyrics concerning her determination to stay in the
city mbu “ekibuga ssikyifuluma nedda
(I will not get out of town no matter what)”. And it is not only Judith Babirye
but there is also another guy called Cobby Bly who sings and says “Sidda Mukyalo, wadde Kampala nge egganye”
I will not go back to the village even if things fail to work out here in
Kampala. Yet, how can I speak of all these people and forget my man Red Banton
in his famous Nemeddeko track in which he vows not to leave the city. I can go
on and on even speaking of Ugandans who in their private conversations intimated
to me their determination to stay in the city and never to return to the
village from whence they came. So, who does Hon. Tinkasimire think he is to
push a “whole” president back to the village?
May be I need to give
more explanations on this matter. As far as I know Mzee has no family home in
town except State House in Entebbe
and he can only keep his stay in State House by keeping in power. Therefore, anyone
who presents suggestions of him descending down the throne of presidency is
technically sending him back to that village called Rwakitura to go and graze
his cows in the bushes that side. And How I wish all Ugandans would understand
this simple fact that the man is not about to just accept to go back to
Rwakitura when he has been in town for thirty years.
The other aspect that
I may need us to know about that statement is that there is someone fooling us.
And the question is who is fooling us? One person tells us Mzee has been here
for thirty years, the real statistics seem to suggest 27 years and when we hear
from the horse’s mouth, it is something like “It is not 30 years, it is 50 years
that I have been active. You are miscalculating.” So whose word should we take?
I would rather we take Mzee’s word. I hope we all know that our Mzee is
omniscient. He knows all things, even those things that we know not. Perhaps
that is why he is the only man that God has blessed with a vision for this
country. We had all been fooled to think that he has been around for thirty
years kumbe the man has been around for fifty years. This, to put it, a little
bluntly means that we are all fools and Mzee is the only wise man in this
nation. Yes we are all fools. How could we have failed to figure out that Mzee
has been around for more than thirty years if we are not fools? We have all
been fooled by people like Tinkasimire and our eyes are blind to the truth. So,
let us all wake up and know that this country deserves nothing better than
Mzee, the fountain of wisdom, the discoverer of Oil, the Conqueror of the Bush
Empire for we are all but fools.
The next article will be an analysis on why the Ugandan Army should disband ouir parliament
