Three years of the Covod-19 pandemic and its effect had extended a false belief in Uganda’s fickle political opposition that NRM and president Yoweri Museveni had lost grip on the sails but well, they got crushed instead.  

It’s that time of the year Christmas, Boxing Day and the beginning on another year when rich and poor people alike travel to their common ancestry to celebrate the festive season. In Uganda, the poor are especially in the bad old habit of spending so lavishly of the little they have on food, drinks, new clothes, shoes, and general merrymaking that you wonder when they will ever learn to be frugal.

It has taken China’s unstoppable rise for the US and allies to appreciate that Africa have plenty of opportunities to offer and should be treated with some respect. The 35km Entebbe Expressway, New Nile Bridge, Expansion of Entebbe airport, new Kabaale logistics international airport, 1442 km EACOP, Isimba and Karuma hydro-dams, many industrial parks and road networks rising out of bushes to facilitate Uganda’s socio-economic transformation.

Mao Ze Dong in 1937, said that active ideological struggle is a major weapon for combating liberalism, and ensuring unity within a revolutionary party. It is evident, that today’s liberalism within the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party is causing the rejection of ideological nourishment, and instead promoting unprincipled peace with decadence.

Looking over the political terrain, one can see Kizza Besigye Kifefe, Greg Mugisha Muntu, Robert Kyagulanyi, and Patrick Amuriat Oboi are all dressed up but with nowhere to go, and probably coming to the end of times although NRM shouldn’t write them off as yet.

Slowly, one-by-one, they are fading in demeanor, popular appeal, policy alternatives and the buster of yesteryear although being feathers of a kind still pursuing an ambition. 

Paulo Kawanga Ssemogerere who was buried on Monday this week leaves behind a mixed legacy, and has since his last humiliating defeat in 1996 when he ran for the presidency lived a prolonged low key retirement mostly as a scorned and dejected politician trusted by a few.

The high stakes meeting between US President Joe Biden and Xi Jiping this week at the G20 summit ought to come as a relief to the geopolitical trends where since Soviet Union collapse in 1989, Americans took to extreme hegemonism and bullying.

Last week while on the floor, the Leader of Opposition in Parliament (LoP), and MP Nyendo-Mukungwe in Masaka district, Mathias Mpuuga made bogus lamentations that MPs are saddled with providing public services like healthcare, education, water, street lighting, bridge and road construction otherwise a responsibility of government.

There have been ominous signs of a creeping armed subversion that appears to be instigated and supported by some dissident groups passing for legitimate political opposition outfits seeking a democrat change in Uganda. They are taking advantage of the plethora of social and traditional media platforms to generate hate politics, drive negative agenda and propaganda, mobilize local and Diaspora support, blackmail and intimidate the state and Ugandans.

Suddenly, Rishi Sunak rejected seven weeks ago by majority Conservative members defied the odds as an Indian man to be crowned party leader and UK prime minister without any vote after rivals dropped out in what many see as deal-making where 195 MPs endorsed his nomination.  A failed state would have been castigated for failing democracy.