Gen Mugisha Muntu
When Patrick Oboi Amuriat (POA) contested against Mugisha Muntu for the presidency of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), the campaign got heated up and later turned shabby. Muntu was treated as if he had never been a member of the FDC party.
Most of Dr Kizza Besigye’s disciples sided with POA against Muntu. Of course that gave a clear image of who Besigye supported in that particular election. Besigye’s disciples talked all sorts of things against the humble General, and even made a lot of allegations against him until they succeeded in misleading most of the FDC members and the mission was accomplished when Muntu lost the election.
However, one of the things they said which became common and took people’s attention was the accusation of Muntu being President Museveni’s mole. The ones who were preaching that gospel wondered why Muntu had never openly insulted Museveni or why he was never arrested by the police.
They concluded that he was being treated special because he was a mole who was sent to FDC to completely finish it. In his response to those allegations, Muntu said that FDC members will one day get shocked when they find out who the mole is. In a dramatic turn of things, the FDC is now up in arms accusing the party secretary general Nandala Mafabi and the party president of attempting to sell the party to Museveni.
It should be noted that the FDC bred a group of extremists who were largely young people, mostly from universities. These ones would later break away and join Bobi Wine’s movement which is now the NUP party, but all the doctrine and the mind poisoning was gotten from Najjanakumbi.
Fortunately, using some of the skills they were able to hoodwink voters around central Uganda and even rig votes in Kampala to emerge opposition’s largest party in the country – taking away a position that the FDC had enjoyed for many years. The camps within FDC cannot allow them to form one united party, and even if they’re mediated today to start working together, they would still get divided because of the historical bickering.
When Muntu decided to break away from the FDC with his group to form their own political party, Mafabi followed them with a letter demanding that they return all party property that was in their possession which included among many; cups, plates, and spoons. This was intended to embarrass Muntu as a person.
The FDC isn’t any better than the NRM which they criticize every time they’re given a chance to speak to the public, its founder Besigye has for decades failed to differentiate between Uganda and the person of President Museveni. And that’s why he will never fail to mention “Mr Museveni” when gets a chance to speak.
To him, the politics of Uganda are about Museveni and he strongly believes that once you do away with Museveni all the problems that Uganda has will instantly be solved which is absolutely false and misleading. In any case, those problems may even increase to even worse if Museveni isn’t in charge.
The FDC has proved to fail in their internal democracy, leaving most members aggrieved and some of them choosing to break away. One time, in Kabale municipality, they decided to handpick a flag bearer against the will of the majority members which led them to ask their candidate to run as an independent candidate and won the elections.
Where’s the internal democracy and the rule of law within the FDC? Why have they kept on singing something that they’ve failed to practice in their small political party? what would happen if they had the majority of Ugandans as their members?
Would they act differently from NRM or they would actually be worse? Those are the questions that the members of FDC should ask themselves and if the answers are negative then they should have all the reasons to disembark from the crumbling party.
The writer is a deputy RDC Sheema district
Source: The Observer
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