2016, is where we are all looking, the General elections pre-circumstances have left air of feared havoc during and after the general elections for Uganda. Now, that we have a sole candidacy campaign that has been endorsed for the ruling party and many party leaders resigning from their party leadership and others pulling out from the presidential ambitions, we are left with a rather disillusioned conclusion to what 2016 will be like. Of the violence, the tear gas, the arbitrary arrests, rigged ballots and finally the announcement of the sole candidate of the ruling party as the "democratically" elected president of Uganda. We are in a point in time, where the minority take the day and people have resorted to the attitude of "if you can't beat them, join them" and gradually the cause for democracy has been replaced by tolerance and compromise with our stay put leaders.
Africa's dilemma and probably the most probing question, is to why change of leadership is still a hard pill to swallow in Africa? Why even after the disastrous leadership of the late Idi Amin Dada, our leaders still desire to be life presidents? Presidential ambition has become an evil desire, you either support the incumbent or you are dragged to court on grounds of terrorism or witch hunted until you give up all cause.
But the situation needs to be remedied in order to provide lasting solutions to the Ugandan electoral system, to the process of leadership and to future of Uganda. In the event that the proposed electoral reforms that where forwarded by CCEDU (Citizens' Coalition For Electoral Democracy) are not adopted before the general elections, then we might have a case of a continuous vacuum in the democracy and development of our country.
We heard it said, that the development of a country hinges on its politics and the political system which by far survive on democracy should be in a proper working system. Now, given the outplay of events in Uganda. With term limits scrapped off for 11years on and soon life presidency might be the near future reality, we find ourselves stuck in a cycle that cannot deliver change to the people of my Country. 53 years after independence, we ought to have travelled a journey of tangible and world recognised development. We ought to have shifted into a middle income country long before our golden jubilee but the reality of the situation is that we are giving the same solution to the long realised problem. We are indirectly as a citizenry giving permission to our leaders to abuse and defile the constitution of the land and thereby leaving us stuck in a state of apathy and disillusionment which is fast killing the fiber for change in our society.
Young men have resorted to swift spending in gambling centers while the old men boast in reminisce of the good old days. But we cannot continue to look to the colonial times to justify today. Solutions for today have been given in the need to modify our constitution, provide for term limits and constructive destruction of the colonial development, so we as a society can build our solutions and working plans for development.
The urgency in addressing the problem of life presidency should be revisited on all grounds, to create room for dynamic change and progress in the development of Africa as a Continent. As we borrow from successful democracies on how they achieved free and fair leadership, we can embrace change of power that will deliver a rise of new ideas, new working solutions and development in the long run.
In a matter of fact way, we can only get out of this rat hole if we brace our selves, either for transitional change or for forceful change. We either hold the reigns of our freedom and the urgency of our development like the Burkinabes and deliver our Country from thievery or we could lay in the misuse of our puppet leaders (who are by far no different from slave masters) and give away the last hope for the next generation, to witness change, freedom, free and fair elections and most of all clean politics that can guarantee development.
Africa's dilemma and probably the most probing question, is to why change of leadership is still a hard pill to swallow in Africa? Why even after the disastrous leadership of the late Idi Amin Dada, our leaders still desire to be life presidents? Presidential ambition has become an evil desire, you either support the incumbent or you are dragged to court on grounds of terrorism or witch hunted until you give up all cause.
But the situation needs to be remedied in order to provide lasting solutions to the Ugandan electoral system, to the process of leadership and to future of Uganda. In the event that the proposed electoral reforms that where forwarded by CCEDU (Citizens' Coalition For Electoral Democracy) are not adopted before the general elections, then we might have a case of a continuous vacuum in the democracy and development of our country.
We heard it said, that the development of a country hinges on its politics and the political system which by far survive on democracy should be in a proper working system. Now, given the outplay of events in Uganda. With term limits scrapped off for 11years on and soon life presidency might be the near future reality, we find ourselves stuck in a cycle that cannot deliver change to the people of my Country. 53 years after independence, we ought to have travelled a journey of tangible and world recognised development. We ought to have shifted into a middle income country long before our golden jubilee but the reality of the situation is that we are giving the same solution to the long realised problem. We are indirectly as a citizenry giving permission to our leaders to abuse and defile the constitution of the land and thereby leaving us stuck in a state of apathy and disillusionment which is fast killing the fiber for change in our society.
Young men have resorted to swift spending in gambling centers while the old men boast in reminisce of the good old days. But we cannot continue to look to the colonial times to justify today. Solutions for today have been given in the need to modify our constitution, provide for term limits and constructive destruction of the colonial development, so we as a society can build our solutions and working plans for development.
The urgency in addressing the problem of life presidency should be revisited on all grounds, to create room for dynamic change and progress in the development of Africa as a Continent. As we borrow from successful democracies on how they achieved free and fair leadership, we can embrace change of power that will deliver a rise of new ideas, new working solutions and development in the long run.
In a matter of fact way, we can only get out of this rat hole if we brace our selves, either for transitional change or for forceful change. We either hold the reigns of our freedom and the urgency of our development like the Burkinabes and deliver our Country from thievery or we could lay in the misuse of our puppet leaders (who are by far no different from slave masters) and give away the last hope for the next generation, to witness change, freedom, free and fair elections and most of all clean politics that can guarantee development.
