As NRM, oops! I mean Museveni goes to Namboole; I am reminded of one of my best quotes; “It is useless to have principles if you are not prepared to suffer for them” And that nobody will recognize your neutrality if you choose to keep quiet for being tagged. And I say that individual, civil or political indifference by the citizenry of any society anywhere does have a price. In Uganda for instance, the price of civil indifference is the escalating widening gab of social and economic inequalities that is prevailing in our country today. Deliberate abuse of public offices by our public officials, commercialization of our justice systems, overt display of illegally acquired wealth especially amongst public officials in the mist of poverty and hunger of their subjects. Corruption is presently in ascendancy in the midst of our well drafted constitutional laws and bye laws. Recent reports from the corruption watch dogs’ Transparency International and Afro barometer About Uganda is damning. Remember when we mention Uganda, we mention a certain Model of Democracy. Our two main arms of government including our police service have been black listed as very corrupt. Imagine a bunch of election rigging parliamentarians making a law that affect the whole nation, and imagine a corrupt judge is required to interpret this law for the consumption of the public and imagine a corrupt law enforcement agency like the police is suppose to enforce this law on the ordinary person. God save us! As shameful as it is, it is the norm and the practice in Uganda to keep quite. But shouldnt these ills be enough to awaken our fears and timidity? Arent these enough not to keep us mute, conserved and indifferent? I thought there is numerous precedence around the world to keep us focused? It did not take the attitude of civil indifference and passivity but civil consciousness, resistance, protests and demonstrations by the people of Burkina Faso to evoke the suspension of the intention of their recently ousted dictator president Blaise Campaore to change Burkinabe’s constitutional electoral laws. But for the civil courageousness and resistance of citizens of Burkina Faso, Blaise Campaore through his rubber Stamp parliament would have gone ahead, mutilate their constitution and continue with his almost three decade old of spiteful leadership to the people of Burkina Faso. And you saw the immediate response from AU and ECOWAS after the incident? So terrible!! Kudos to Burkinabe citizens, they unflinchingly stood their grounds. What about us Ugandans? Isnt the 30year Museveni rule enough? What are we waiting for?
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:05:40 +0000
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