Uganda: Government of National Unity Will Stop the Militarisation of Our Politics

opinion

On February 28, Mr Jaberi Bidandi Ssali, leader of People's Progressive Party (PPP) and presidential aspirant in the just concluded elections, penned a letter to his old friend, President Yoweri Museveni, the NRM flag bearer and declared winner of the said elections. The letter, which was published in the Daily Monitor of March 1, was no doubt the best of the many Bidandi Ssali has written to his former colleague and probably his last 'SOS'. Mr Museveni has in the past shown dismissiveness to such missives from Bidandi Ssali and I doubt if he will treat this one any better, or will he?

Bidandi Ssali had been on Museveni's good side since the UPM days; served as a key minister in the NRM government from 1986 until he was booted out for refusing to endorse the third-term project. He masterminded the President's elections in 1996 and 2001 and he is also the co-author and chief implementer of decentralisation system in Uganda. In those good old days, he said decentralisation was a better system for Uganda than the federalism which Ugandans had shown preference for, in both the Odoki and Ssempebwa reports.

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