{UAH} PATRIOTISM-MADE IN MUSEVENI'S UGANDA

PATRIOTISM-MADE IN MUSEVENI'S UGANDA

In Uganda, the district is the largest local government unit and is headed by a Resident District Administrator (RDC).  During past governments, it was the District Commissioner (DC) but when Museveni came to power, he embarked onGAMBLING with titles.  First, the called them Special District Administrators (SDA) and then changed to District Administrators (DA)  and later on Central Government Representatives (CGR), before finally settling for Resident District Commissioners (RDC).  The RDC is appointed by the President and is the representative of the President in the district.  Constitutionally he is charged with overseeing government programmes in the district and is the head of the district security commitee. They fall under the President's office and are only answerable to him through the Minister for the Presidency.  The DAs, SDA and CGRs were respectable men and women  with excellent public standing. However, since Museveni's totalitarianism came to light the positions have been held by mischiefs, rejects, Sycophants, opportunists
and to some extent lumpens.

The line up of RDCs is composed of serving and retired army officers, former members of the opposition who were brought out by the regime, Museveni's preferred parliamentary candidates who are rejected by the voters and other opportunistic regime cadres.  Museveni usually fronts specific contestants in opposition strong holds and specific opposition candidates.  In some instances, he dissuades his party parliamentary aspirants from contesting against his preferred choices in return for appointment to positions of RDCs and other public bodies.  Therefore, RDCs owe their total allegiance to Museveni and the regime as evidenced by their obnoxious and patrician conduct of public affairs.  Under their respective offices are regime cadres who are dubbed Political Moblisers.  As Chairman of the District Security Committee, the RDC has been responsible for all the violence against the opposition and civil society groups. The regime assesses their performance in accordance with their level of 'vigilance and patriotism' in terms of how best they have undermined, curtailed, harassed, and undermined the opposition and civil society activities and general political dissent. 

 It is against the above mentioned background that last week the opposition Presidential contender Dr. Kiiza Besigye toold Ugandans that if elected into office he would do away with RDCs because they are a nuisance.  Shortly after, Museveni stated thus: "....for the first time I agree with Dr. Besigye .... I may not agree with him on other things, but some RDCs are useless, we spend money on them but they don't add anything...."  However, a week later at a press conference in So roti the same Museveni retracted the same statement thus: "I have been seeing Besigyea attacking RDCs. I was only being sarcastic. So, if you don't know that (sarcasm) am telling you now.  He went ahead to state that he had a grudge with RDCs because they were not punishing the bad people.  Of course, 'the bad people' are the members of opposition and other dissenting Ugandans.  Sometime back back he had directed RDCs to arrest opposition politicians whom he accused of sectarianism.

As Dr. Besigye was campaigning  in northern Uganda last week, he was conducted on a tour of the district hospital in Abim by Senior Nursing Officer Sister Adong.  The video vootages of the that tour reveal the appalling conditions at the delapidated facility.  The video footages that have since gone viral, have rubbed the Museveni regime the wrong side.  The Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of Abim distruct wrote to the Nursing Sister Adong threatening to displine her for disclosing government secrets.  In Kabale district the Police blocked Presidential aspirant Mbabazi from accessing the government hospital during his campaign tour. Ofcourse, the CAO was only implementing the directives from above (RDC, DISO, Police Chief, regime Secretariat, and Museveni. In 2009, then Minister of State for local government Perez Aha we told a meeting of local government leaders at Kolpiing Hall in Hoima district that anyone in government service who campaigns for Museveni and his NRM will earn a promotion while opposition leaning public servants would be fired.  He was starting a countrywide tour by the Ministry of Local Government to urge public servants to campaign for Museveni ahead of the 2011 general elections.  Minister Adolf Mwesigye was taking the same message to the northern and eastern regions while Ahabwe was to cover western and central regions.  The law bars public servants from indulging in partician politics but the Minister assured them they would benefit from government protection.MMinister Ahabwe went ahead  to give them assurances thus: "If you campaign for us, we shall protected you because we are the ones in power..  How can we arrest you for campaigning for us!  Those who do not want you to talk for us should go and hang.". He went ahead to single out Kira district as having been in the lead of districts having the highest number of local government officials who were architects of anti- NRM rhetorics in the northern and eastern regions which were leading in civil servants who were undermining NRM.  He added:"You are either NRM or opposition; if you are in opposition, keep quiet and allow NRM civil sertants to talk for the government and we shall reward them according to their efforts."  Read more from the:  observer.ug



Who is more patriotic; the hospital Nurse, the Presidential aspirant or the administrator who is aggrieved by 'leakage of government secrets'


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