{UAH} BUKENYA'S U-TURN BOOSTS DR. BESIGYE'S ÇANDIDATURE
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BUKENYA'S U-TURN BOOSTS DR. BESIGYE'S ÇANDIDATURE
Former Museveni ceremonial Vice President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya's return to 5he ruling military junta jeopardizes former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi's candidature since most Ugandans who are craving for change may now view Mbabazi as the next person on the list of the opposition top figures who may return to the Museveni camp. This is because of Mbabazi's reluctance to aggressively confront the ruling military junta. However, such a conclusion would be misguided because Mbabazi is only trying to be deceptive in dealing with Museveni's military dictatorship or else he is sent "six feet deep". His approach will obviously cost him in terms of confidence building. For example, how will heACCOUNT
for his continued being guarded by the regime police and his suspicious retention of HIS long time aide de camp (ADC) Capt. jimmy Katabazi who is a senior member of the regime spy outfit ((ISO) among other privileges. Why was former Vice President Bukenya not afforded such privileges before he made a U-turn!!!
Museveni had appointed the Professor on sectarian considerations; to hoodwink ethnic Baganda and the majority Catholics in Uganda. However, he had to sack him after suspecting that the Professor was harboring presidential ambitions. He accused the Professor of secretly meeting top Catholic church clerics and senior ethnic Baganda army officers. Since then Prof. Bukenya's opposition to Museveni's dictatorship has been consistently vague. Among the stinging attacks again the Museveni regime is his well founded suspicion over foul play in the demise of his son in a mysterious motor accident. His son Brian Bukeknya wàs about to complete an Officer Cadet course under Museveni's personal army. Most recently, the professor publicly lamented that his son had been served with lace tea before being killed in stage managed motor accident. He even went further to allege that the so called accident vehicle was being driven in Congo by members of Museveni's secret services.
Ever since he was sacked the scalndalous and comical Prof. Bukenya has been seasonally associating with mainstream opposition groups. The most recent was where he was one of the four contenders for the opposition coalition joint presidential candidacy. Hardly a month since the collapse of those efforts, Prof. Bukenya has made a U-turn. To grace his infamous pronouuncement, the regime was represented by Patricia Mwijustya whom the media houses described as " a State House official who did not want to be identified." She is a daughter of the Late Sam Magara who had been Museveni's Arny commander in the bush before they disagreed and the former met his mysterious death. She is to run for a parliamentary seat in one of the new Hima found lands in Buganda - Nakaseke North constituency. His deceased son must be turning in his grave and writing a book titled "Betrayed By Dad".v Of course, Bukenya will argue that he he has simply left the club of Misege (wild dogs) whom Museveni said he can't hàndover power to; and he has gone back to become a domestic dog once again.
Such scenarios leave Dr. Besigye to be viewed as the only credible, substantial and consistent political opponent capable of tackking Musveni's dictatorship. Still, the two political camps of Dr. Besigye and Mbabazi need each other if they are to achieve meaningful regime change. They only need to harmonise their approaches, strategies and ideology for a common goal of rescuing Ugandada from a hostage situation. What should preoccupy the two camps is how best they can 'lure' Museveni's son who is the army chief to 'back' their cause. Otherwise, Bukenya's U-turn should not be a surprise and has little impact on the cause to salvage the country. What matters are the people of Uganda who have not and will never make a U-turn. However, Prof. Bukenya' s U-turn confirms Dr. Besigye's recent assertion that he has learnt not to trust people.
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for his continued being guarded by the regime police and his suspicious retention of HIS long time aide de camp (ADC) Capt. jimmy Katabazi who is a senior member of the regime spy outfit ((ISO) among other privileges. Why was former Vice President Bukenya not afforded such privileges before he made a U-turn!!!Museveni had appointed the Professor on sectarian considerations; to hoodwink ethnic Baganda and the majority Catholics in Uganda. However, he had to sack him after suspecting that the Professor was harboring presidential ambitions. He accused the Professor of secretly meeting top Catholic church clerics and senior ethnic Baganda army officers. Since then Prof. Bukenya's opposition to Museveni's dictatorship has been consistently vague. Among the stinging attacks again the Museveni regime is his well founded suspicion over foul play in the demise of his son in a mysterious motor accident. His son Brian Bukeknya wàs about to complete an Officer Cadet course under Museveni's personal army. Most recently, the professor publicly lamented that his son had been served with lace tea before being killed in stage managed motor accident. He even went further to allege that the so called accident vehicle was being driven in Congo by members of Museveni's secret services.
Ever since he was sacked the scalndalous and comical Prof. Bukenya has been seasonally associating with mainstream opposition groups. The most recent was where he was one of the four contenders for the opposition coalition joint presidential candidacy. Hardly a month since the collapse of those efforts, Prof. Bukenya has made a U-turn. To grace his infamous pronouuncement, the regime was represented by Patricia Mwijustya whom the media houses described as " a State House official who did not want to be identified." She is a daughter of the Late Sam Magara who had been Museveni's Arny commander in the bush before they disagreed and the former met his mysterious death. She is to run for a parliamentary seat in one of the new Hima found lands in Buganda - Nakaseke North constituency. His deceased son must be turning in his grave and writing a book titled "Betrayed By Dad".v Of course, Bukenya will argue that he he has simply left the club of Misege (wild dogs) whom Museveni said he can't hàndover power to; and he has gone back to become a domestic dog once again.
Such scenarios leave Dr. Besigye to be viewed as the only credible, substantial and consistent political opponent capable of tackking Musveni's dictatorship. Still, the two political camps of Dr. Besigye and Mbabazi need each other if they are to achieve meaningful regime change. They only need to harmonise their approaches, strategies and ideology for a common goal of rescuing Ugandada from a hostage situation. What should preoccupy the two camps is how best they can 'lure' Museveni's son who is the army chief to 'back' their cause. Otherwise, Bukenya's U-turn should not be a surprise and has little impact on the cause to salvage the country. What matters are the people of Uganda who have not and will never make a U-turn. However, Prof. Bukenya' s U-turn confirms Dr. Besigye's recent assertion that he has learnt not to trust people.
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