{UAH} Maverick Blutaski :

Robert Atyhairwe/Lt.Col Tony Owana,

Don;t you think Rwandan cut-throat Kayibanda Museveni might have done
well with a few individuals like Maverick Blutaski ? The moral fibre
of Ugandan society is now so damaged that it will take us at least a
generation (20 years) to bring it back to pre-1986 levels. Uganda is
today a country where corruption is a skill, stealing a virtue, lying
a survival technique, telling the truth a crime; a country where evil
has overtaken good in all aspects of life.
Bobby



Maverick Blutaski

I am motivated by a desire for fairness. At 40, I may never benefit
from any form of justice or fair treatment since I have developed my
own capacity to fight my way around stupid people, but my children,
you and your children must be treated fairly to compete for
opportunity and equality under the law.

I support causes, not individuals by the way, that promise to
establish a political environment with structural and policy
incentives to unleash the innate potential of every citizen to be a
productive and a useful member of society.

In school I was taught early that to be among the best I must compete
through hard work and discipline. While I was not the super
mathematician or chemist of my time, I never engaged in locking up the
best in their rooms so I can beat them in class. Competition instilled
in us a sense of pride and friendship with colleagues. Those with whom
we competed we shared ideas, exchanged notes, they were not
adversaries. We were not intellectual rivals. We were instead called
nicknames of authors of Chemistry or Physics text books like Rasmussen
or Abbot by classmates. This illustration might sound simple but a
compelling grounding of how nations emerge from the agency function of
the individual and collectively the citizens.

I know many of my former school mates cannot contradict this
historical account. Some of them are very ashamed they are part of the
current disgraceful greed in Uganda and are munching quietly under the
table.

These principles have worked for me in the last 15 years of an
illustrious career and I believe I don't have to change a working
formula except improving it to benefit others. We cannot promote
uncultured behavior. We must promote our best produced by a
transparent and fair process. Otherwise, we must not stage manage a
competition which in effect does not exist.

We were taught the ethos of fair competition. Of course, like any
classroom some people did not comprehend these concepts and their
application in real life. We were not taught how to steal books of
fellow competitors to win in class. We were not taught to burn school
libraries to be the best.

The rules applied to all and controls were put in place to help ensure
compliance to the rules. It was not a flawless systems across the
country, in fact stories of students being helped by parents or
teachers to steal exams to win a competition were rife even in news
papers.

It is therefore surprising that as we grow old we seem more inclined
to promote a culture of unfair competition using the crudest methods
calling it politics while asking the police to arrest future
politicians stealing exams in school.

My stance is not about who wins a contest; an election, a tender or a
scholarship but the process that delivers the results for the winner
and the losers. Fair completion is the bedrock of innovation, building
an information society and knowledge based economies around the world.

My philosophy is therefore engraved in these basic principles. We
cannot tell young people to work hard in school and then as leaders
engage in organizing sham elections riddled with all kinds of uncouth
and uncultured behavior of grown up people.

It is shameful, disgraceful and barbaric behavior of any civilized
society. How do we tell children to work hard in school when they
watch their parents behaving likes vandals in courts of Justice,
police, Parliament, cabinet, old men organizing sham elections on TV
or in their communities?

In a society that has gradually been socially engineered to accept
stealing exams, public money, stealing of sham elections or defilement
of institutions as a normal culture, I personally find it extremely
disgraceful to stand or associate with people who promote this
culture.

I emplore you to stand firmly in the quest to restore civility in our
country. It is not going to be easy, in fact you might find oneself as
lonely voice but this is a worthy stand. A sham election involving old
people is the most disgraceful thing for a country because those who
steal an election cannot be de-motivated from stealing public
resources.

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