The price of prolonged incumbence!

by Drew Ddembe on Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 8:00am

That is the scary part -25 year olds who have only ever known one president!

 

25 year olds who have only ever seen a hand over of power from the same man to the same man!

 

25 year olds who have never seen a hand over of power from one government to another!… See More

 

25 year olds for whom it is normal for a president, his wife, his brother, to be in cabinet, his son to be a senior army commander, his daughter to be a worker in the presidents office, whose sons in law have businesses toing business with government!

 

25 year olds who have grown up with the knowledge that it is normal for the senior command, the cabinet, some major businesses doing business with government to be literally from the same village!

 

25 year olds who go through school knowing there is no future in the job market for them if they do not have enough “know who” rather than “know how”!

 

25 year olds who think “panda gari” was a “funny story” or a “tall tale”! Museveni has delinked Ugandans from their past. A past that is not “funny”! Adults soiled their pants at the mention of “panda gari” -both a symptom as well as result of Museveni’s war for which we all paid the price yet hearing him talk you would think only he, his family and band of 27 fought or paid for this war which he uses to perpetuate himself in power!

 

25 year olds who believe that the old thugs who commanded “panda gari” are the protectors of our morals, ethics and virtues!

 

25 year olds who believe that the police have to “approve” a peacefull demonstration rather than use their presence to ensure safety for both the public and the demonstrators, and that it is normal for police and soldiers to shoot civilians for expressing dissatisfaction with the government!

 

25 year olds who believe it is normal to have serving soldiers in parliament!

 

25 year olds who believe that it is normal for a country to have a personal army whose allegiance is to one man, his brother or his son as a nations army!

 

25 year olds who believe that corruption, nepotism, sectarianism are all normal and the right of those in power!

 

25 year olds who believe that they should not expect anything from a government unless they voted for it!

 

25 year olds who believe that they can only get services to their area by petitioning the president, making a pilgrimage to Rwakitura or electing the presidents wife as their parliamentary representative!

 

God help our country!