By Rev. Stephen Okhutu
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Email: s_okhu@yahoo.com
A constitution was imposed on Africa by Europe to enforce their ways on us. How
can a revolutionary leave power when people still love him because of a mere
paper? Libyan President, Col. Muammer Gadaffi
Many Ugandans who heard the words of the aged cerebrated freedom fighter advising his Ugandan counterpart thought Gadaffi was just defending himself –History has it that he is among the list of the long serving heads of states in Africa and probably the world!
I personally has no problem with monarchs, only if the claim to be so. Because after all is has its on advantages. We should believe that a person will do much as he can to defend his position and among these includes extending goods and services to his people.
If you study all those countries where leaders have refused to leave power, you will discover that they tend to get identified with the people –or they claim to be working for the interests of the people.
The problem is only that they waiting list of those who want to rule is long and they will not wait until that someone dies!
The end result is wars and spending towards national defense. This means the people whom these leaders claim to be serving will come out with nothing.
Then, even the advisors appointed to serve the nation will start serving the leader and the end result will be a group of sycophants aiming and protecting their positions than serving the public! After all they know that no advice which is not in the interest of the leader will be taken. So they learn to give ‘good advises’ or to be politically correct, they learn to protect their lovely leader!
But besides this, people’s lives are put in danger as the opposition and the ruling sides are fighting for support!
For the public, it becomes difficult to decide, if ones decides against the government he will be branded a criminal, if he decides against the opposition, his own people will be hunting for him the next day!
Take an example of the cerebrated Uganda Martyrs. Writers of historical books especially in Uganda have intentionally made the public to believe that these people died because they loved Jesus so much that they could not respect the King. This may be true until one believe that a person can lie by omission.
The teacher of these martyrs, Alexander Mackay, whom we should al believe because he controlled these innocent boys wrote that King Mwanga, A king of Buganda kingdom was exploited by Indian and Arabic traders at that time. They taught him among other things; smoking Marijuana and homosexuality.
He was successful in homosexuality until one day these boys learnt about Gomorra in the Bible! This is where the problem came from! He asked one of his peg boys to have it with him and the boy refused reasoning that God will burn him like he did to those in Gomorra.
The king got futile. Very early in the morning when he made a head count of how many Christians he had in the palace, it came out that almost all of them raised their hands!
Then he realized that no more homosexuality unless these boys are dead! He also feared that they might tell it to the public, imagine the shame it would have caused!
So he found reason to kill them saying they were spoilt by western culture and were not respecting him!
Is this teaching you something? Yes, let us accept that monarchs are good. But we should not forget that people’s voices are not respected.
We are bound to have more so called martyrs if we continue with these kinds of rulers.
After all, the so called revolutionaries claim to have fought to rebate the people. I think this is different from fighting to rule the people, otherwise, if it is ruling we better remain with those in power because we don’t know what the new regime will come with.
I respect Brother Gadaffi, because a fish enjoys life when in water, do you expect it to support fishing!
