In February this year, for the umpteeth time, Life President Yoweri Museveni scored an overwhelming victory in presidential elections in Uganda. Now–with the aid of the country’s police–Museveni wants to destroy and himiliate the only candidate that came to close to making a decent showing, Kizza Besigye. Mainly because the former army colonel and ally of Museveni is fast taking on the mantle of “opposition leader.” The photograph above, taken at a protest Monday, shows Besigye wearing swim goggles to ward off tear gas. Besigye was arrested by police for “walking to work.” At the time Besigye was walking to work with other protesters to protest rising food and fuel prices.)
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This is very interesting article, written by Museveni on Gadhafi
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/28/ugandas-president-on-the-gadhafi-he-knows/?hpt=Sbin
So what comes next for Uganda? If we are inured to Museveni serving without term limits are we ready for him to stay twenty+ more years? Even if he gets progressively more repressive? Does the office pass to his son? Constitutional term limits on presidents matter at least as much in Africa as they do in the Americas.
We are currently having a repeat of this situation right now as opposition attempted to walk to work again this morning. Reports of several opposition MPs having been arrested including Besigye and riots in several parts of Kampala as well as other large towns Jinja, Masaka and Mbarara.