Beware, Muhoozi: wolf begets a wolf

Our country under President Museveni has shrunk and needs rebuilding; our democracy has loosened; freedom of speech has become treasonous; corruption is rewarded as thieves sit in comfy offices while innocent Ugandans rot in jails; the national security, which should keep law and order, protect Ugandans and their properties, is at the forefront of destabilizing law and order; abduction and torture of citizens are now a weapon by the government; our education and health systems are shattered and the first family decides on how the national resources should be distributed.

We have cried enough—the struggle that we hoped would send Mr Museveni into retirement barely yielded; our beloved revolutionaries liberated their stomachs and now they have ministries and positions in the National Resistance Movement government; our members of parliament who would legislate policies against Museveni are actually a school of idiocy—they are raping the constitution without fear or favour.

And now that we smile at last as old age ousts Mr Museveni from the presidency, a bunch of greedy barbarians exalt Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Museveni’s son, as the next Uganda’s president. With no doubt, these are Uganda’s worst adversaries who only want to immerse their straws into the national pot and suck it dry; they don’t care about the state of the country—they are drunk with power and money, and the only way they can have them in abundance, is install another mendacious mediocre at the source to keep it flowing. 

Whereas a clique of sycophants thrust an ideologically bankrupt yet intolerant Muhoozi into a presidency wrestle, the truth remains that his hands, like his father’s are dirty with both people’s blood, mediocrity and political leprosy that has eaten up Uganda for almost four decades. 

It is acute sarcasm for any Muhoozi sophist to think that a stumbling Uganda deserves a Muhoozi to free itself from Museveni’s shackles; the same Muhoozi who flouts the army code of conduct because his father is in charge; abducts and tortures Ugandans in dungeons for politically disagreeing with his aging father; wastes taxpayers’ money on birthdays and buying off fools who can bootlick him, among other atrocities. 

So, whoever holds the sentiment that Muhoozi can lead this country in the right direction, after the thirty-eight-year epoch of his father and family’s failure, should know that however much you tame a leopard, it will always be a leopard, and as long as its father’s blood runs in its veins, it will incessantly prey on your goats and chickens.

Likewise, becoming president will not stop Muhoozi from his savage acts, and he, like his father, will further sink the country into the abyss of injustice and mediocrity that we have helplessly suffered for a while—after all, a wolf begets a wolf.

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The author is a novelist and poet