CHANGE OF GUARDS - Uganda's military dictator,
Museveni has applauded US President, Donald Trump's "Shithole
countries" utterances. He said,
"America has got one of the best Presidents ever, Mr. Trump, I love Trump
because he tells Africans frankly, I don't know if he was misquoted or
not". Museveni went ahead to argue
that " time had come for Africans to stop seeking foreign assistance to
solve African problems but rather focus on solving their own problems their own
way". Obviously, Museveni is
mindful of the role the west played in supporting citizens in Iraq, Libya and
Ivory Coast to dislodge their despotic leadership. He concluded by calling upon African
countries to embrace integration as a way of building strength. Again, here he was meaning military
strength/alliances to help keep one another in power as opposed to ECOWAS's
intervention in Gambia against Yahya Jammeh.
Earlier while meeting the Speaker
of Museveni's parliament, the US Ambassador to Uganda had regretted Trump's
statement. She said; "It’s was an unfortunate
comment, yes, obviously for people like me and many of my colleagues who have
spent many years working in Africa have many relationships and friendships
across the continent. Obviously quite
disturbing and upsetting as I know Africans themselves felt".
In April 2017 a Ugandan feminist
academic, Dr. Stella Nyanzi called Museveni a "pair of buttocks" and
described his wife who is the Minister of Education as having "empty-brains". Her outrage was prompted by the regime's reneging
on its earlier campaign pledge to provide free sanitary pads to school
girls. She went ahead to assert that;
".... that's what buttocks do. They
shake, jiggle, shit and frat. Museveni is another pair of
buttocks.......Ugandans should be shocked that we allowed these buttocks to
continue leading our country". Two months later she was brutally arrested,
charged with Cyber Harassment and using the internet to disturb the peace,
quiet or right to privacy of Museveni.
She was initially denied bail and remanded. The regime's move to have her subjected to
psychiatric examination was halted by an appeal to the Constitutional Court.
During campaigns, Mr. Trump had
promised to "deal with" despotic leaders around the world. He singled out Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and
Uganda's Museveni. Museveni who at the
time believed that Trump would not make it to the White House, responded by
claiming not to know who he (Trump) was.
When Trump made it to the White House Museveni developed a "running
stomach". In May 2016 during his
(Museveni) swearing-in ceremony he had referred to the West and the ICC as a
" bunch of useless people - prompting western diplomats to walk out.
Having realized that those Ugandans
seeking to dislodge Museveni from power have failed to tap into the golden
opportunity presented by Trump's tenure at the White House, he (Museveni) is
now recovering from the "running stomach". By sarcastically praising Trump as being the
best USA President ever when the rest of the continental leaders are expressing
furry, Museveni is aiming at using the comments to rally African leaders
against the west for his selfish interests.
He is to use the comments to push for his " African solutions for
African problems" rhetoric to align the continent to the communist east.
The majority of Africans have
welcomed Trump's comment as the accurate description of some African
countries. If anything, owing to the
mismanagement and gross abuse of human rights, Trump was kind enough not to
refer to them as village pit latrines that are always swarmed by flies. That's why tens of thousands of young
Africans are perishing in the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea trying to
leave some of such "SHITHOLE" countries. Those in positions of leadership were furious
just because Trump is 'inciting' their subjects. African subjects contend that it’s the greedy
and brutal leadership that has made some countries "shitholes".
It’s therefore highly hypocritical
for Museveni to delink the biologically and morphologically close
"shithole" and "pair of buttocks". By glorifying Trump's "shithole"
and criminalizing his own Dr. Stella Nyanzi's "pair of buttocks",
Museveni is not being sincere even to himself.
We are yet to see if his (Museveni) friend, the legendary Black American
rapper Snoop Dogg will reconsider his recent decision to relocate to Uganda in
protest of Trump’s “racist remarks".
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