{UAH} YES: WE ARE A FAILED STATE. NO PARADOX HERE. WHY?

YES: WE ARE A FAILED STATE. NO PARADOX HERE. WHY? 

Good morning, all, plus Omusiita Ateenyi.

In case bullet five caught your, and you also read the preamble that: a good leader should be a good reader, then bullet five should not be a paradox at all.

Why? because:

1. Check, Uganda's Worldwide Governance Indicator (WGI) by World Bank and Institute of govern e, since 1996, Uganda's measure for "Effective Government" has never had a score beyond 35%. 

Hence, militarily strong but a failed government by any measure. 

2. Failed government is also characterised by the "elite state capture for private interests" which results into diverting use of public resources, money, offices, the public service, police and the army for the gains of a small privileged class to amass wealth, control power and privileges, in what is called CORRUPTION (Yates, 2012: Heywood, 2022, Davis, 2017👈🏿on reckless elite opportunists. In our case elites capture both the executive, parliament, judiciary and the corporate world and are sharing the loot: so, unless it us we who are ignorant, where is the PARADOX? 

3. Corruption, and at its extreme called KLEPTOCRACY, which means government by thieves is due to government institutional failure and emergence of personality cult /strong men and women in charge. 

Institutional economist thus explain:

CORRUPTION = MONOPOLY OF POWER + (PLUS) DISCRETION - (MINUS) ACCOUNTABILITY. 

Failure to control corruption is clear in Uganda, and the worst WGI  score for Uganda since 1996, the country has never scored beyond 15%, which implies the country is 85% corrupt-check the etymology of the word corruption. It literally means the total break down of both soft and hard institutions (Co👈🏿what together, and rruption👈🏿to bread down). 

 And according to Transparency International (TI), our countries corruption perception index is always between 26 to 28%.

This means between 72 to 74% of our population doesn't even understand corruption. 

4. Failed government/weak states, range from the practice of antipolitics, menevolence, to being a polices state, and/or praetorian military state that relies on "hard power."

5. "Anti politics" as an aspect of a failed government occurs to a rejection of, and/or alienation from, conventional politicians and political processes, especially mainstream political parties and established representative mechanisms.

Anti politics is often a part of malaise from which many things failed ststes/government's suffer from like failed governance. 

6. One aspect of a failed government is a total decline in civic engagement, as citizens turn away from politics anf retreat into into private existence, which in Greek political theory means people become idiots instead.

Going by this measure, according to WGI, since 1996, Uganda's measure for "Citizens Voice and Accountability" has never gone beyond 28%, hence at least 72% live under oppression by the norms.

7. Natural Resource  Governance (NRG) is another measure for success or failure. According to the Institute of Natural Resource Governce Index (NRGI, 2023), Uganda scores only 44% in this area, we are not a  success story either. 

8. Rule of Law, our score is 45%,according to WGI, and 

9. Regulatory Quality, we score 39%.

10. On Political Stability, and Absence of Violence and Terror, Uganda rarely scores beyond 22 percent. Implying upto 78% of our population lives under real or potential terror. We are exposed to real and potential danger 24/7, like living under a pharia state. 

I can go on and on, Uganda has no shortage of examples of state failure if you are truly a good scholar, and reader, hence a leader. 

The state, for which government works is an institution meant to be recognisably "public", in contrast to "private" institutions. State bodies, which includes government must be seen to be and perceived to be public and legitimate, not only legal. In this case they promote the social contract, the public good, and all state bodies, executive, parliament, judiciary, the army, prisons and police are responsible for making and enforcing collective decisions in society and are funded at public expense, and transparently, with accountable meritocracy with full blown checks and balances. 

So, if it what pertains in your country?

WGI are indicators from over 250 national and global organisations, including TI in Uganda, and our own UBOS, among others. 

Yes, by this we are a failed state, and there is no paradox. We are just not intelligent citizens.

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