{UAH} A COMPILATION OF DR.KIZZA BESIGYE's INTERVIEW WITH THE NBS TODAY's MORNING.

A COMPILATION OF DR.KIZZA BESIGYE's INTERVIEW WITH THE NBS TODAY's MORNING. 

Dr Besigye has today's morning been hosted by the NBS on their weekly talk show the Morning Breeze with Simon Kaggwa Njala. Below are some of his main assertions. 

"We have survived up to now by the grace of God and it's by the race of God that we hope to overcome this crisis we are in. 

I said, soon or later, everyone in the country will be infected with COVID-19. This is not something that requires extraordinary knowledge because this is a flue. The question is the type of infection you get.

What makes this virus unique is that it's new and creates more severe conditions in people. 

In its management, the first and most important steps we take are to reduce how it spreads so that those who get sick are not many at the same time so that our healthcare systems are not overwhelmed. 

Regrettably, we have mismanagement this virus and we are now reaping. I wouldn't want to deal with the failures of government.

Policy problems came in, trucks were allowed to move without the people in those trucks being tested. 

This was a grave mistake, what was done three months later to test people at the borders should have been done at the start.

The population lost confidence in those who were acting. We had the trucks importing and distributing the virus in areas where they stopped. 

The NRM primaries then spread the virus to the whole country. By the time of the General Election, Uganda had lost the fight against COVID-19.

Communication was and is still a problem. It's a waste of time to blame the government, if you are disappointed with the NRM government (how it has handled the pandemic) then you don't leave in this country.

I mobilized using the Facebook and I would raise all these points even while in those earlier stages. 

As people were starving and dying in their homes without health care, trillions of money were borrowed and stolen. 

Imagine sending 1trillion, that's 1000billions to Mr Museveni's house(of course State House is not a country asset but a personal interest) 

That is also part of the be money that the MPs tried sharing but were eventually shielded by Museveni, who again called them and awarded them 40millions. 

We must realize that as people, we are foolish and we must deal with our stupidity. 

The biggest problem I see is simply having masses of people that are not thinking. That is why we have a regime like we have doing the things it's doing for 35 years and we are simply lamenting.

Even when I came here, you heard people say that I shouldn't talk about politics and that I should only speak of COVID 19. Nonsense! This actually answers the political question. 

"Health care and management of a pandemic is a matter to be managed by the government. As I was coming here, people were saying that I should talk about COVID-19, not politics. 

That's the utmost foolishness we talk about. There's nothing more political than health because health is a common good."

 Simon Kaggwa Njala also intervened when Dr Besigye said that he was bitter with the government sending off school going children. Dr Besigye said that those hotspots can be managed, they can carry out mass tests other than kids going back to the villages and they affect the bazeeyi. 

Observe the SOPs yourself as a person. Wash your hands regularly, sanitize where many people have used, wear your mask. As an individual, you must become vigilant. These measures of reducing measures of getting the virus are important. Avoid people unless you must. 

A tougher lockdown would be necessary but the reason they can't lock down is that they have no capacity to maintain people locked down.

This is why I was bitter with the government's decision to send all students home. Schools are organized institutions that can be managed.

When asked about if he can consider sharing his sobber views on COVID to the government, Dr Besigye refuted and exclaimed that he doesn't consider our country to be with a government. "These are mafia gangs!" 

What you call the concoction are natural ingredients that build the capacity of your body to fight. That concoction is something well-considered and has been researched. I am telling you what I am because I can defend it.

When you have symptoms, isolate yourself because we have nowhere to test. A test in a private facility is over UGX 200,000. The government should even stop publishing those results, these statistics confuse people. 

Of course, many more people have died but they are talking about those who died after being tested by these few tests."

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