It would be in Museveni’s interest to hand over power to a civilian rather than to his son
In any country’s progress, security plays a vital role in ensuring development takes place. However, Uganda’s case is different.
We have been singing peace, peace, peace, peace, peace, peace for the last 36 years, yet there is no visible progress.
Take a look at our neighbors. In 2020, Tanzania was lifted to middle-income status. Kenya and Rwanda are already doing well, but Uganda’s experience of peace has had no value in terms of economic and social progress.
Going forward, the class of 1986 NRA has built a national army, police force, and prison service, yet those men and women in uniform, their welfare is far from the standard they deserve.
According to the NUP’s manifesto 2021, the party recognizes the role of security agencies in keeping the country at peace. Kyagulanyi promised a salary of one million, free education and healthcare, and better housing facilities for all serving army, police, and prison men and women. This sounds promising and appealing to the young men and women in uniform who can’t come out to complain about their poor working conditions.
Muhoozi has been in the military for 20 years, but he has never even advised the CiC about the need to improve the lives of the army, and it’s the army that is holding Museveni in power.
Yet the Ghetto President, in less than 5 years in politics, has made it one of his points to improve the lives of the army, police, and prison service who are responsible for ensuring peace in the land.
Some top army bosses are not convinced and pleased with the Muhoozi project, and ordinary (corporals) subscribe to Bobi Wine’s camp, which serves to explain why Bobi Wine’s takeover leadership is more peaceful than handing over power to a lab general.
Top army bosses who are liberal believe that Museveni betrayed them after 1986 after failing to comply with his 10-point program and promises, so they are not ready to salute Museveni’s son as CiC as we remember the late General Kasirye Gwanga once stated that he couldn’t salute the lab general.
While some top army bosses are willing to salute Muhoozi as CiC because they believe that Muhoozi won’t touch their regime’s modified wealth, unlike Kyagulanyi, who is most likely to launch a committee to investigate the source of wealth of NRA cadres before 1986, the corporal in the army who constitutes 90 percent love and would wish to defend and protect Kyagulanyi Bobi Wine’s government whom they have been following through his lyrics advocating for better social welfare, unlike their own Muhoozi, the lab general who has been raised to higher ranks in the shortest period without a successful field mission, people would love to see a field general the likes of Katumba.
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