{UAH} Ocen, Edmund//Philip Ochieng questions Museveni's revolutionary credentials

Folks;

The veteran Kenyan editor sets out to castigate how newspapers report on Uganda's claim to Migingo island, and ends up sharing  a biting assessment of President Museveni's oft-repeated revolutionary credibility.

Pojim

"I was working as a newspaper sub-editor and columnist in downtown Dar es Salaam when a certain Yoweri Kaguta Museveni emerged as a boisterously "revolutionary" student leader on the university campus at Ubungo. But the only aspect of him of which I have remained unaware is his constant claim nowadays to be a revolutionary. That is remarkable because a revolution is never achieved by means of the mere word "revolutionary".

In Museveni's early days, it was important for one to depict oneself as a revolutionary so as to appeal to young East Africans, especially at the University of Dar es Salaam, following the Arusha Declaration inspired by President Julius Nyerere.

If Mr Museveni has raised the lives of Ugandans from one level of material culture and thought to another, I am not aware of it. That the material life of a certain very tiny class has shot up meteorically is not in question. But the President's claim would make good sense only from the mouths of neighbouring Kenya's political class.

https://www.nation.co.ke/oped/opinion/Forget-Museveni-tell-me-about-Migingos-people/440808-4772638-92xxm4/index.html