Uganda: Government Must Handle Armed Groups Effectively to Safeguard Our Security

23 October 2018
opinion

Since their coming to power in 1986, President Museveni and peers have sung the phrase "Kati mwebaka otulo" (loosely translated as "Now you can sleep", an allusion to the peace, security and stability the former NRA now NRM brought to Uganda compared to the previous regimes. This is why occurrences of insecurity like the recent murders of former Arua Municipality MP Ibrahim Abiriga, senior police officers Mohammad Kirumira and Andrew Felix Kaweesi, Muslim clerics, among others, leave President Museveni in awkward position.

However, would justice have been served if one attributes all the security gaps to the past regimes hence rendering President Museveni completely innocent? President Museveni himself confesses that Idi Amin ruled him for only one day after which he opted to fight him. Can anybody tell what would have happened if Amin's government had not been fought? Similarly, despite the contestation of Obote's election to presidency, Museveni took up arms against the Obote II elected government. That said, Museveni's top agenda when he captured power was to bring the issue of insecurity to an end.

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