{UAH} Besigye has played his role very well since the late 1990s

By Oweyegha Afunaduula

Dr Kiiza Besigye has played his role very well since the late 1990s when he wrote a missive that revealed that the NRM/A was surely deviating from its promises.  He started a new political compensation as an offshoot of the NRM/A -the Reform Agenda - thereby charting a new path to freedom.  He went on to form the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) to clarify further his intention to free Ugandans from what was now proving to be a one-man political agenda crystallised as NRMO.  He then set out to reveal that elections in Uganda can never change leadership on the national level when he presented himself as a Presidential Candidate 4 times but was squeezed thin every time he did,  until he announced that he would no longer be President of Forum for Democratic Change and that his journey into State House had ended.  Then just before the 2021 Presidential Elections he told Ugandans that elections organised by NRM in power can never remove President Museveni from power.  Indeed President Museveni has himself pronounced that when he said either before or after the 1996 Presidential elections,  that the ballot paper can never remove him from power.  Somehow Kiiza Besigye seemed not to have heard what the President and went on to stand against him in three other Presidential elections.  Was he just stupefied by the strong desire to go to State House or to liberate Ugandans from the man he had helped grab power by acting as his doctor while they were in the bush?  After declaring that he would no longerstand for Presidency,  and dismissing the ballot paper as a means of changing leadership in Uganda, he talked of Plan B, which is still unclear.  He has now said fighting is not an option. Indeed this is not 1980s but 2020s.  Fighting would be more costly in terms of losses in life,  money,  energy and time which would otherwise be deployed into turning Uganda into a progressive  country of the 21st Century.

So where is Uganda now?

I have said before that Uganda is, unfortunately, like a car stuck in the mud with all its four tyres flat and in reverse gear,  and with a driver determined to remove the car backwards. Those who have traditionally positioned themselves as helpers have decided to look on as they are devalued by the driver.

But tell me: do tyres deteriorate the more they stay in the mud? One thing is true.  Nothing is impossible under the Sun.

Kiiza Bessigye came on the national stage, played his role and cannot be on the stage fore ever.  Whether we the old like it or not,  the stage is ultimately for the young.  We can only delay them taking centrestage in the governance of Uganda. Biblical Saul tried to resist  Biblical David from taking over the Israeli Kingdom but he could not stop the clock ticking in favour of David.  Time decides absolutely.

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"When a man is stung by a bee, he doesn't set off to destroy all beehives"

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