President Yoweri
Museveni’s long explanation on why his daughter, Ms Natasha Karugire, used
the presidential jet on a trip to Germany where she delivered her baby is
probably not only comical, but also the most self-centred piece of writing
he has produced so far. He constantly uses words like “I” or “me” to imply
that he is the State.
This only helps to
explain that Museveni, as a person has become paranoid and is seeing
enemies everywhere. Just imagine a president ruling a country for 17 years
and still cannot think of any doctor good or trustworthy enough to deliver
his children’s babies!
Another lesson from
what he said is that his principal motivation comes out of fear. He needs
power to protect himself from the many enemies he mentions.
What some of us do
not understand, however, is a strategist like Museveni failing to figure
out that by over-protecting his children and their children at the expense
and suffering of millions of other peoples’ offspring he in fact is
setting them up for a very hard future.
Museveni is no
tortoise, however hard he tries, he will not be around forever. What will
happen to his grandchildren when one day, they will be out-numbered by the
children of those young people growing up in those horrible camps for
internally displaced people?
He says he is doing
everything for the safety of his family blah, blah ... but that is what
the pigs said in George Orwell’s Animal Farm about their wine and milk
consumption (things they hated!) for the good of everybody else.
Joseph
Baka,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Museveni’s
grandchild has taken over the press for almost 10 days. And most of the
people are more concerned about the monies that were spent for this
creation miracle to take place. I have read many comments, including what
my neighbour Dr Muniini Mulera contributed in The Monitor. I however want
to take this in a different direction.
If you read the
president’s explanation as to why he had to send this girl to Germany you
would see that Museveni is a president who is very scared. He is scared of
the medical system he has created in Uganda, he trusts no doctor with not
only his life or the lives of his family members. Why has Museveni failed
to get a Ugandan doctor he trusts?
My question then
becomes, what will he do if he leaves office? If he is not elected
tomorrow for a third term, how will he and his entire family get medical
attention if he does not trust any of them today?
Museveni fought to
rid Uganda of dictators but we all remember that when former president Idi
Amin fell sick, he was operated on at Mulago National Referral Hospital.
Is Museveni telling us today that Ugandans loved Amin more than they love
him?
Dr Apollo Milton
Obote was shot in Lugogo when he was president in 1969, and he was
immediately rushed to Mulago. Museveni says that Ugandans love him more
than they love Obote. Why was Obote willing to succumb to the knife in a
Ugandan hospital and not a man who is allegedly more loved?
Was Natasha sent to
Germany for security reasons or because under the Movement government, the
entire medical infrastructure has been
destroyed?
