Comments for The dynamics behind Museveni's family rule at http://www.independent.co.ug , comment 1 to 21 out of 20 comments http://www.independent.co.ug Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:32:36 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-16928 You are absolutely right. It will take a long way for Uganda achieve a total democratic state. Museveni has shown the world that Uganda like any other African states be best rule by dictatorship. this means, A government of Banyakole for Banyakole by Banyakole, The vision and wisdom of Dr. Andrew Kayiira to unite all Ugandans and bring about a viable democratic government to Uganda has become a distance dream as Museveni managed to erased him from the universe. Museveni was aware that Kayiira would not give him a damn to sabotage and tranquility in Uganda. Nevertheless, Museveni has held Uganda hostage and put it under house arrest. But hungry family wolves should know that the evil spirt of Nicolai Ciansescou is still alive. One day the will face the same fate and so there's the door to hell awaiting to serve them hellish corruption dinners. - Ocan Lit Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:11:36 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13610 This is an article that is inciting. What developmental value for Uganda is in this article. This is real street journalism. If the writer is a young guy, it is diappointing. Are the no better things to write about? Tell us what you in your small way have done to your rural community or what you plan to do! Thriving on such malicious writing will not take you far. Make a difference oze owanyu omukyaro oyambe abantu!! - Katenta Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:51:49 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13580 You know soon after taking power, Musveni in his arrogant scholarly pretence said that '' History does not repeat itself, its stupid people who committ the same mistakes'' . He was mocking the Obotes and the Okellos. Now here is this ''intellectual'' also committing the same mistakes like the swines. Where is the intellect of our revolutionary? Perharps Tamale Mirundi can help us here? KITALO - Mukalazi Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:26:48 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13572 thax alot man aluta continua - kisule Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:02:02 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13566 :cheer: - Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:49:56 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13565 :shock: Andrew i think these people are targeting the Karamoja reconstruction funds among other juicy opennings in this country. However they should Know that "ebyensi no'mushenyi" ( Things of this world are like sand) they will leave them and we shall enjoy. Please let them know that they will colapse like Kla buildings and perish like Americans in Iraq - Ray Chrichton Mwene Turahaigur Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:35:29 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13558 Mr Muwenda I share your pain just like any patriotic or nationalist. Because Ugandans have been poor for so long we dont know how to share anything with our fellow country men. The first family is so rich but steals more and more just like the rest of the so called politicians of today's Uganda. The Museveni's of Uganda see this as a once in a lifetime chance to take as much as they can while they can because they dont believe there will be enough for everyone tommorow. A new private jet for the president was the highest peak of maddness and greed plus luck of consideration for other fellow Ugandans who struggle everyday to feed, treat or educate their children. It is going to take a very long time for the Museveni's of this world to change or even care about fellow country men. They are simply low life figures in High places. - Edward Sansa Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:06:11 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13546 Many thanks for your analysis of the current rule. We were told at the start that it was a Fundamental Change. No regime in Uganda has had weatlh amassed by a few like NRM. There is need for a commission of inquiry in future as to how these autocrats are now worth billions . - pato Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:02:02 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13542 I dont think this article by Timothy adds much to the debate that is M7's decline in performance. He takes so long to bring his key point, & wehn he puts it forward doesnt really elaborate to make a valid arguement that this shd have been the point in Mwenda's previous analysis. It degenerates to many articles that you see in local publications that feed the urge for gossip by many & i think crucially fails to structure a credible arguement. Theres though a good insight in the basis of M7's ideology. - ronnie Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:38:22 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13523 Andrew this article is sport on and most of the things you write about museveni, Dr Andrew Lutakome kayiira used to tell ugandans the same story but some people thought that, because they were rivals thus hated museveni. People took every thing for granted, had ugandas given Dr kayiira enough support our beloved country would be in a better place now. Thats the very reason why he was eliminate as soon as possible. Words alone cannot change museveni so ugandas need to use the language he understands. - Paul Flight Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:43:04 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13521 I think we now have some people who have some guts to speak out and get things running. Let us hope, it is a not a plan for Independent to find out who is doing what and have people end up being tortured and killed in safe houses. We love this kind of reporting. The truth and nothing but the truth. - Prince Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:39:36 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13520 No Roman law gave Augustus the right to pass his powers to anyone, and Augustus apparently failed to see that by passing his offices to his adopted son, Tiberius, he was creating the kind of monarchical rule that he had thought often created incompetent rulers. The public was also without qualms about Augustus' transfer of power. There were examples enough about the weakness of rule by family, and these were times when history was read more than were novels. But the Romans ignored the lesson that could have been drawn from rule by dynasty. Instead they believed that for a continued peace and prosperity someone should rule as Augustus had ruled. When Augustus died in CE 14 -- just before he was seventy-seven -- Tiberius, at the age of 56, took the title of emperor, and he also became a consul. Like many dynastic successions to supreme power, Tiberius' succession was accompanied by murder. The victim was Agrippa Postumus, Julia's son by her previous marriage to Augustus' commander and companion, Agrippa. Augustus had adopted him as his son and had made him co-heir with Tiberius, but the boy seemed unruly and slow in thought, and Augustus disinherited him. After the death of Augustus, the boy, as a person of royal blood, was thought a possible rallying point for disaffected persons, and he was eliminated quickly and quietly. Tiberius was bright, and he had a long history of service to Rome, including ably leading troops in Rome's frontier skirmishes. As emperor he was a capable administrator and had genuine concern for the empire's well-being. He let the Senate know that it was he who ruled, but he left some duties to the Senate, saving himself from being overburdened with work. He told the Senate to stop bothering him about every question that came up and to take initiative, but, to his disgust, senators cringed before him. The Senate began responding to crises that routinely appeared -- one of which was the collapse of the poorly constructed amphitheater at Fidenae, which killed thousands. Regulating private businesses was recognized as in society's interest, and the Senate took action against frauds of various contractors, including the slackness of authorities that resulted in some roads becoming impassible. The Senate was concerned about what it saw as a new freedom among women, about extravagant living and the rise in prices of food on the black market. But Tiberius saw all this as a part of the times, and he believed it was difficult to move people into the past, at least without making them unhappy and creating new opponents to his rule. But he did suggest to the Senate that it expel from Rome dancers who had come to Rome to put on obscene shows - David Kakande Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:03:52 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13517 Janet the first lady just want to follow over the foot step of m7, and plunder the gold and minerals of karamoja, welcome to the most corrupt family in africa. i guess some one will pull the trigger on them1day. - lutkot Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:33:25 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13511 Mbwenu,owarogire Uganda takanaabaga hangaro(the person who bewiched U ganda has never washed his hands) this is a microcosomic depiction that Uganda' s ideological and development woes are still at large,when you see the people we consider to be the young and best brains from whom we can get the liberation herb for our country still indulge in trivial family issues of some one,then you know we still have a long way to go.I propose that mr.Mwenda with due respect should engage us in a more constractive debate and give us alternative development strategies to the Government he criticises. - Moses Kakarugahi Nuwagaba Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:30:37 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13502 nothing new in this piece...uninteresting and very poorly written .. - Steely Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:57:26 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13492 Andrew,keep the pot boiling,was thinking loudly i hope they of the Rwakitura fame are aware they are one and the same as the KCC chaps(deputy town clerk) who declared last week they are not in charge of Kampala. Their house will soon start to cramble on them Kampala buildings style,what rises falls...! - futsi Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:28:08 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13491 mans freedom is lucking if what he needs is controled by onother man, even still we shall know where the crocodile sleeps when the river dries, - house Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:06:31 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13474 African dictators never learn. They keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. They and their families can accumulate all the wealth they want to the detriment of thier countrymen, but there is always a "market correction" as it happens on the stock exchange. Amin's men lost all the wealth so did a lot of Mobutu's, Bokassa's etc etc. I guess it will happen to those plundering and looting Uganda now - babiha Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:05:51 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13450 I can not help to think that this is a personal attack on the person of the president, and though that may be construed to be illegal in some quaters, I suppose since it was a sell-out story, the authors can be let off else the country explodes into chaos. And yes, M7 is a control freak being controlled by the power that he controls (if that makes sense..)! What can I add to that .... Next publication please? - Emperror Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:43:32 +0100 http://www.independent.co.ug/column/guest-column/718-the-dynamics-behind-musevenis-family-rule#comment-13441 Mwijukuru wa bayombo, The Bible says ,Even if you pound a fool in a mortar,you will never remove his folly from him. And thats why Africans die like flies because they don't have the wisdom to judge what is right and wrong,call it ignorance or stupidity. - Pyerarama Stewart Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:24:40 +0100