Can Museveni ‘fight’ over Indian Ocean?

I hate playing devil’s advocate. Today, I’ll do so. I’ll make a case for President Yoweri Museveni with regards to his recently misconstrued message to Africa. I know Museveni as a humorous person. Whenever he speaks, expect him to crack some jokes and send coded messages to whomever he targets. When Museveni said that the Indian Ocean belongs to him, which is true, and he’d go to war with Kenya over it in the future, not many understood him. 

After Museveni jokingly let the cat out of the bag, internet was awash with condemnations, lampoons, memes, and rebukes from Kenyans who were pointlessly up in arms baying for his blood. Guys, keep your cool.
        Museveni speaks allegorically and philosophically. Besides, at his age, he speaks as if he does to his grandkids. Museveni is right. The Indian ocean is his simply because he enjoys its uses. His goods to and from abroad go through this ocean. Those naively lampooning him should know. 

If Uganda wasn’t landlocked–––don’t ask me about who locked it–––you all know––– how’d they make a killing out of brine, which no one can drink or shower with? Thus, when he says the Indian Ocean is his, use your brains a wee bit–––it means that everything on the African continent belongs to all Africans be they on it or in diaspora. The same applies to the oil found in Uganda. It belongs to every African.

    Those who know Museveni very well will concur with me. He actually didn’t mean war as he’s misconstrued but something else apart from his targets whom I don’t know if accurately got his coded message humbly say that Muzei didn’t mean war but something else, namely a true unification of Africa beginning with the East African Community. The war he means is philosophical but not a military confrontation. 

    If anything, Museveni cut the first turf aimed to be an ice breaker in this matter after being sick and tired of hocus-pocus, which the EAC member states have maintained vis-à-vis its true unification and of Africa at large. Again, apart from postcolonial presidents including Museveni, whom else can we blame for our division? Haven’t they been frustrating the process to cling on our statehouses and their entitlements and pomp?

    Those who are pointlessly and wrongly attacking Muzei are horribly off the mark. At his senescence, Muzei knows that his time on earth is shorter than the one he’s already clocked. I remember. Nyerere who died younger than Muzei, after exiting power, once warned that the ujanja ujanja or arrogance they use in elections were long gone. He used to run against the shadow and win for close to100% then during the cold war era that propped all sorts of political gimmicks for the benefit of the two belligerent superpowers.
         As for Muzei,  he aims at warning the East Africans that they need to put their house in order. This reminds me of my book Africa Unite or Perish. Besides, of all African postcolonial president, it’s Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian founder who espoused Africa’s fast-track union while Julius Nyerere who outfoxed him preferred a bit-by-bit unification of Africa that’s never materialised.
        In sum, before attacking each other, ask yourself. Who asked God to create water aka ocean for him or her and deny it to others? By the bye, why’d we fight over brine that we can’t even drink or shower with? Africa unite or perish. In this case in point, please, examine what is said not who is saying it. Museveni indeed is not supposed to be condemned but thanked for saying it honestly and point blank.
Source" Daily Monitor Sunday today.