{UAH} EU SCR*WING UGANDA?

European diplomats ganging up, summoning a local Ugandan government representative and questioning him/her about the constitution and other internal political issues is the clearest indication not only of an increasingly hostile African regime, it also indicates a mentally enslaved government that actually has little political independence.

If African countries tried such a move in Europe or the US, they would be laughed at heartily by the host nation's speaker. But when the EU does it in Africa, we submit to the charade (though quite boldly in this case). But they are screwing the regime.

Why are they unable to do this in Turkey, Russia, China or Saudi Arabia for example?

Is it a persisting colonialist mentality reserved for the poor and weak African countries? A State of mind that has simply gone slightly more underground with the change of global political times.

Why for example, didn't any African country summon their local EU ambassadors to demand answers on the infamous 'Operation Sophia' which saw the EU officially fund the Libyan concentration camps which became the harrowing centers for modern slavery trade, torture and death of African migrants?

Yet here they are seeming to genuinely think that they are some sort of supreme rulers of our "banana republics" as they sit in their plush embassies feeling like some modern day colonial governors or something.

But in this Trump era of 'Everyone for Themselves', I bet the EU diplomats felt quite odd this time as they engaged in this once dreaded populist exercise. Surprisingly they recently held a summit in Belgium devoted to the very subject of populism. It was just last week and opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye was invited to speak to the audience of EU MP's about Uganda's case. I have searched in vain for a transcript or full video of his submissions, but there might be a cause and effect relation between his meeting in Belgium with EU representatives, and the EU diplomats summoning a Uganda government representative a week later yesterday.

But as to the European Union interfering in today's Uganda, they might be doing so only after summoning some courage by telling themselves that "our taxpayers money was spent here funding Uganda's national budget anyway".

That is how aid creates our dependence and nurtures our own mental slavery while psychologically removing our capacity to achieve things ourselves.

A person used to begging on the street and getting free money every day in the millions will not go looking for a job to uplift themselves from poverty. Begging becomes the job. The same applies to prostitutes. Sexy is no longer a pleasurable act reserved for intimate relationship and for building a nice cuddly family. And it would take a major life changing event for such people to decide to get meaningful employment or start a legitimate successful respectful business.

It is true that political interference by the EU used to offer hope to oppressed Africans who needed all the help they could get to liberate themselves from misrule. In this case Uganda is going to the dogs with rigged elections, skyrocketing criminality rates involving political murders, state-sponsored assassinations causing a reign of terror, disappearances, ransom/kidnaps and a mass massacre in Rwenzori in 2016 by the military. But in no other time in our history has this kind of foreign meddling felt so pointless, disenginuous, and actually corny.

Actually they are indirectly giving legitimacy and credence to a constitution that in the conscience of the ordinary Ugandan citizen, has completely lost its legitimacy after "multiple rapings" since 2005.

The Ugandan 1995 constitution actually barely exists anymore as a meaningful sermon of the people of Uganda. It is now clearly serving the rulers against the ruled. This is not liberation. It is just replacing the Tito Okello's with the Museveni's since 1986.

This sense of a meaningless constitution ("now a mere piece of paper") is the reality in the collective Uganda social psyche. That is especially the feeling after last November's constitutional amendments that led to the brutal death of 18 year old Edison Nasasira in Rukungiri who sacrificed his life in vain for what he believed was his once cherished constitution. Instead he was shot with a bullet to the head as he protested with his friends the questionable lifting of the presidential Age limit from that very constitution.

Worse still, after summoning the speaker of Parliament and demanding answers, the people of Uganda that the EU diplomats claim to be fighting for, will see these very ambassadors toasting a glass of champagne together with the oppressor in some televised sumptuous function the very next day.

So one might ask, what's the purpose of counting on these western countries?

That is why the best thing to come out of the Trump era is his untold "Everyone for themselves World order".

It is putting down the old 'Casper the friendly (imperialist) ghosts'. This means Africans must now increasingly understand that we are left to fend for our own liberations where applicable, and surely fend for our own economic prosperity across the continent. The colonial masters are there only when their is something from us that they want for their own ulterior interests. Which in most cases means being politically and economically carried aloft by Africa. So kindly stop putting your hopes in those who in the end will wash it down with a glass of champagne courtesy of the days regime.

By Hussein Lumumba Amin

27/06/2018

Kampala, Uganda.

NTV News on EU envoys meeting Ugandan Speaker of Parliament and demanding answers on internal political affairs: www.ntv.co.ug/news/national/Foreign-envoys-on-Age-limit-judgement/4522324-4632112-vn8ydp/index.html

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