The Chant of Savant

Thursday 23 August 2018

Bobi Wine: Is it the Beginning of the End of Museveni's era



            Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine, a Ugandan musician-turned politician, seems to be shaking things up. This youthful Member of Parliament for Kyaddondo has caught  President Yoweri Museveni by surprise not to mention taking Uganda by storm. What has been ongoing in Uganda recently may tell us something we don't know. What we didn't expect is the reaction of the government after facing some resistance. Since Museveni came to power, he has held Uganda at ransom.  So, he is not used to seeing people demonstrate in the street or opposing his edicts. He created a brutal but fickle regime that subjected Ugandans to fear and intimidation. Now, it seems things have changed dramatically. Those he made to be sheep are slowly waking up from the slumber so as to threaten turning tables on him.
              Like his counterpart in Libya, Muamar Gadaffi, Museveni has turned Uganda into his private estate. This has guaranteed him the ownership of Uganda. For, this reason, Museveni doesn't think that there is a time his autocratic and corrupt rule will come to an end. I don't know if Museveni believe even in death. After being in power with absolute power, it seems, power has corrupted Museveni absolutely. Indeed, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
               Now that the cast is die, chances for Museveni's rule to start crumbling are on the agora.  Faced with youths who want changes, Museveni is forced to unleash his military apparatuses to intimidate them and creating more anger and angst. The more he will kill the more will he will encourage to shun the fear and get out to oppose him. This will have domino effects on Museven's aging regime. Like Gadaffi, Museveni may be caught off guard so as to go down quickly and unexpectedly. Like Blaise Compaore, Museveni's ouster may come from unexpected angle, especially if youths stand their ground to see to it that Museveni is packing and hit the road.
In sum, by the look of the things, this is the beginning of the end of Uganda's longtime under Museveni. Bobi Wine may act as Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia whose ripple effects consumed the whole Maghreb leaving many dictators cascading like houseflies from power. Will Bobby Wine become the catalyst that may change the Sub-Saharan Africa starting by Uganda? Time will tell. Is this the beginning of the end of Mseveni? Time will accurately tell.

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