Sevo Bashers still scrambling for illegal regime change

HH The Agha Khan's Kampala newspaper, The Daily Monitor, is still desperately continuing its covert support for illegal regime change. It has ran a piece by Benji Ndolo, a heckler who was thrown out by Kenyan security (some of the Basher Media Legion had said it was by Ugandan police for effect) at a discussion forum for yelling at Sevo about the events of Dr Kiiza Besigye's illegal regime change campaign. Sevo had responded to the arrogant heckler something to the effect that the forum was for discussion and not name-calling.

The president was relaxed and begun his speech on Economic Rights and Social transformation with an analogy about insects and their metamorphosis from egg to pupa, lavae to adult. The president was affable. But it is important to define Museveni.

After decades of terror and rampage occasioned on Ugandans by Idi Amin Dada and Milton Obote, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni a young soldier fought a guerilla war to power restoring Ugandans’ collective dignity and returning the country to normalcy and decency. But that was 25 years ago.

Slowly but surely President Museveni has begun his slide back down the path of intolerance and dictatorship. For the past one month, Ugandan forces have systematically and consistently brutalized unarmed citizen’s men and women walking to work to protest against the very high cost of living because of sky high food and fuel prices. Of course there is a political component to these protests given that they are even led by his opponent Dr Kize Besigye but does that justify beatings, shootings and spraying human skin and eyes with copious amounts of acidic pepper?

As I sat listening to Museveni crack jokes and the audience roaring in laughter, I realized that the whole event was too casual and that for a fact a victim of Museveni’s brutality was admitted at Nairobi Hospital 7 minutes drive from where we were sitting, going blind. Our attendance of Museveni’s forum was dignifying him and giving him aid and comfort. Initially, I felt I should walk out. But to just stand up and walk out alone as a head of State speaks, constitutes a security breach and does not say much. Or they would think perhaps because I wasn’t feeling well, or was pressed for a short bathroom call. I stayed calm. But as the president spoke, and paused, I interjected. “Mr President, it’s very difficult for us to sit here and listen to you as Kenyans when daily you are brutalizing innocent, unarmed Ugandans. Why are you allowing this Sir…” I was swiftly apprehended by four officers and bundled into a GK land rover outside.

Mr Ndolo is entitled to his opinions of Sevo and, for sure, he has provided the desperate, regime-change seeking Bashers another worthless hero (another being Besigye). What made him think that of all the people in the conference room, he alone was aware of the facts he writes about? This meeting had been arranged long before. What did he expect Sevo would talk about? Next time Benji, do not attend if there might be a chance that you will sufffer a coronary complication or be brought to the point of lunacy. Did the media report that Benji was booed by the audience? Nope, and neither have the Basher Media Legion - they need their PR victory badly. And have the Basher Media Legion reported Sevo's speech? Nope. They are slowly but surely showing themselves and their bias is getting hard to hide. Benji says his president Kibaki is democratic but if he believes that the leaders in the region are unhappy with Sevo, he is deluded. If the regime-change tool, Walk-to-work campaign, succeeds in Uganda, no regional leader will feel safe. Should Uganda be the guinea pig for interventions in other countries? Hello no! Benji should use his new-found fame to convince the opposition in Uganda to unconditionally accept to talk to Sevo's government for the sake of the common Ugandan.