The year 2006 seems to be the year of showing the real face of National Resistance Movement as a party moving rapidly to show its mighty machinations and operations in the new-era multi-party Uganda. It is also the year of showing the now ugly and tarred face of President Museveni having been rebranded from a nationalist to a fast-rising modern-Africa dictator. The show rolled somewhere in last year when the country's constitution was manipulated in the August House to pave way for a life-time presidency, and it climaxed with the massively rigged elections of 23rd February this year. Elections that finally made life-presidency a reality not only in the walls of the August House but to the whole country as well. With that, the kisanja project was lastly home and dry, just like the so-named dry banana leaves. This was despite the rejection of the project in most parts of the country including north, east, parts of central region and fewer parts of west. Oh, how dictators are worshipped in their home turfs!
So it is. Museveni and another term. Who cares whether it is a third term, a fifth term or a life term? At least not the famed perpetuators of justice and democracy. Not America, and definitely not Britain! Thus the terror can continue to reign.The monster can continue to brood from its backyard. And the dictator is reeling its ugly head for the world to see. By the way, don't they come with pomp and fanfare?
Museveni is back to power, so they say. Had he ever left power? Anyway, with that the country is continuing to fall from grace to disgrace. And just to drive the point home, there is a clear onslaught on independent media centres and media personalities. Poor Lambert Blake. You did not have to write against the regime, did you? I feel for the guy because of being ill-treated and finally deported by this autocratic government. He became the first foreign victim of this draconian government. Some honors i presume! More pity that in Kenya there was no chance for the guy to get a resting shoulder. Are we talking about a shilling and another? The Canadian journalist knows the case better.
Out goes the foreigner! The campaign is now switched to the sweet homeland. NO NONSENSE HERE. The ever-popular and independent Daily Monitor and Sunday Monitor is receiving punches from all sides of the ring: apologize for this and that.............we will sue for libel...............we will close the publication indefinitely................the paper is against us....................Then the fight continues down to the radio stations. K FM, Choice FM, Mega Radio. Scared journalists watch in fear as their careers get threatened for courting the enemy. The unlucky ones end up in police cells facing the dilemma of fighting on or giving up. And slowly, the country gets sick and disintegrate. After all, the vision is to integrate three countries, not just two unintegrable regions. Northern Uganda and the other parts of the country do not belong together. May the LRA terror reign in the North, now and forever, Amen!
For any wanna-be or practising journalist, opposition activist or a democracy crusader, either local or foreign, the best time to be in Uganda is now. Soon, things will be so bad, if not worse, for this group of people. All what is happening now to the media in Uganda is a taste of things to come in a near future, bitter of course. Let those who have ears listen, and let those who have eyes see because the Movement Government has sounded the bullion. Just like President George Bush and his war against terrorism, the warning the government is putting forward is clear: It is either you are with us, or the enemy..................Oops, the opposition!
Hi guys, ain't it time to be on movement? Take a bet and wait!
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