Though it is within my rights and prerogative to stand for presidential elections with the support of the entire nation, and though I know what is technically required for Uganda to be on the fast track to greater enduring economic development, though I know what is required to establish peaceful succession practices like our neighbours are already doing for decades, though I also know what is required to kick out parasitic corruption, and what is required to secure the country from itself and from terrorism, though I have the view point necessary to build regional unity and increased trade relations, and though I know what is necessary to give the country's children a brighter future, our women greater rights, and bring tangible and meaningful hope to our jobless youths, I'd rather avoid participating in any fraudulent general election as unscrupulous as the historic theft that took place on February 18th 2016. Let me re-iterate, and I can't emphasize this enough, that it is the duty of every citizen and every self-respecting politician to make electoral reforms THE priority already now. The lack of credibility, lack of transparency, and lack of impartiality seen in the electoral process earlier this year should never again be repeated in this country. Instead of remedying this serious cancer while it is still freshly visible, legislators (the entire cabinet inclusive) are more concerned with legislating tax deductions from their allowances, and the "cabinet" seems to be focusing on erotic dances. Misguided priorities are a political reality in this country today. We are just from polls that were an outright military coup, and where the entire state, the people, and particularly the judiciary, have been underhandedly hijacked manu militari, and forced to launder electoral theft. Calling for an independent audit of results is a perfectly legitimate request. A swearing-in ceremony is being organized to try and legitimize what was seen being accomplished through fraud and force. The truth is that only a transparent recount, the audit, can satisfactorily confirm or disprove the claimed win. As justice can be perverted, the verifiable truth can't. Because Justice was supposed to provide truth by answering the simple question: Then who was the true winner? As I once said recently, not a single person on this planet has seen any proof that confirms the win that is being flaunted. Miscarriage of justice is therefore another reality today. So it is upon all morally upright citizens, every political party, every stake- holder, including all the former presidential candidates, and all friends of Uganda to make the long overdue electoral reforms, and the requested independent audit, as a top priority for this country. Uganda's long term peace and stability will definitely be impacted if addressing such incoherences is ignored.
God Bless Uganda. Hussein Lumumba Amin 30/4/2016
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