{UAH} Bishop Niringiye: Museveni No Different From Amin, Obote |

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By: Sam Waswa

In the wake of last Sunday's attack by armed men on Gulu Police State, and a similar attack a few days earlier on a UPDF Detach in the same town, former Kampala Bishop, Dr Zac Niringiye has expressed concern that the country could be sliding back to the post independence era of anarchy.

Such gunfire in Gulu, he said, added to the attacks in Kasese and Kapchorwa, the sprouting rebel movements, endless recoveries of fire arms, the arrest of senior army officers are all signs that Uganda has not recovered from its dark past.

Bishop Niringiye, a vocal critic of the NRM regime said this morning that President Yoweri Museveni is no different from his predecessors at whose hand many lives were lost.

"This is today's story," said the cleric, "in Museveni's Uganda in 2016. It was the same story in Amin's, Obote's and Museveni's Uganda in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s respectively. This cannot continue."

According to Bishop Niringiye, Uganda has overly become accustomed to guns, rebels and military politics, and no efforts have so far been made to reverse this.

"Guns-rebels-Military is Uganda's way of doing politics," he said. "Our president regularly adorns military fatigue to remind us of his military credentials. NRM MPs adorn military uniforms at Kyankwanzi, cabinet has military generals and the Military is now in parliament including the head of UPDF; President Museveni has promised to employ muyekera ways."

Surprisingly, Niringiye noted, the recent armed attacks are now being pinned by government on the opposition's so called defiance campaign. A security source was recently quoted linking the guns to the FDC campaign.

To revert this trend, Bishop Niringiye says, there has to be what he calls a structured national dialogue, where Ugandans sit together and agree to transition from the guns-rebel-military politics to dialogue.

"Truth telling, national reconciliation and a Uganda that works for all of us is the future we must work for," he added.

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