Your thesis assumes that it is possible or there are actually people who can be and are successful outside the machinations of the political system. You couldn't be more wrong. The reality is that in order to "succeed" one has to be connected with the political powers that be. At this point I would gladly remind you even independent media outlets like yours, the Monitor, are compromised in a big way since they have to write praises to the powers that be and that usually includes and means the presidency. For you could lose the advertisement moneys accrueing from the political establishment or forever stuck fending off frivilous government ligitation. Many a times businessmen and women and investors alike run into the same political cog wheels that frustrated ordinary john and jane does on main street. What happened to AGOA, African Growth Opportunities Act inspired textile exports ? Didn't the industries associated with it die in the corrupt corridors of the presidents office. Is it possible the reasons all the professors and PhDs have turned into cheap paid mouthpieces of the NRM is that they like the Monitor and multitudes of other citizens, for better or worse, are stuck with the system they would love to rid themselves of, but have miserably failed. So the notion that this national malaise of endemic and insidious corruption is limited to the members of the cabinet is simply narrow, because the corruption pervades every nook and cranny of the society. In brief the NRM revolution, if there ever was one, died a long time ago. It is time to rethink and move Uganda in another direction.