By Wisdom Mumera.
Harare, Zimbabwe. (News Of The South) – When Yoweri Museveni came to power in 1986, the then US President Bill Clinton, commented that he was one of the new breed of leaders who would change Africa and democracy blah blah.
For some time it seemed so, especially for a people emerging from under the leadership shady reign of man such as Idi Amin, any change is almost always sunshine positive.
Since then Uganda has been a tight buddy of the West with the US providing military weaponry and personnel for Museveni until these later days when the erotic hold of power has necessitated Museveni shift his Ugandan body politic East-wards for unrestrained licks and
cuddles.
Today he frolics and dallies with Russia and China; has strategized a clever style of beating the premature ejaculation of an excitement limiting presidential term limit and is set to place his son as the new President of Uganda if things go the way of his thrusts.
Museveni has a creased and congealed company of similar minded man. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, of Equatorial Guinea, Al Bashir of Sudan, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Dos Santos of Angola and a host of other long serving ‘democrats’ who want to hold on and on.
Whilst Museveni is an old school former liberation bushwhacker who can be justified as seeking to compensate for the nights in the jungle with a reign as Life-President, some young fellow born into plenty is joining the ranks.
In the news this week is that DRC Kinshasa President Joseph Kabila is allegedly set to remain in office until elections are held whenever that will be.
I smell a big fat fish here don’t you?
They were supposed to be held in November but by the looks of things they won’t and a court has ruled that, according to its own reading of the constitution, the current President stays in power until elections and the entrance of the President.
The opposition has been fighting such a reading of the constitution, adopted in 2006, citing a different chapter which talks of the Senate President ascending into position until a new leader.
It’s all in a day’s work in African politics but it’s another tragedy in the making. Some un-satiated and unsatisfied man simply can’t accept its time up and walk away.
The fatal twist of the drama plot is that Kabila is no longer eligible to stand for re-election and has to step down for another man even from his own party.
However that’s blasphemous for many African leaders and it’s clear to see that the heir to Laurent Kabila is developing cold feet or heating old eggs for a sinister plan.
In 2014 he tried to be crafty and change the constitution but the plan failed. He has not given up on the ultimate guerilla dream.
He has already divided the country into 26 regions from 11 and so removed supposed enemies; has been creating conspiracies against the most powerful opponent Moise Katumbi who is already eating breakfast in courts for allegations that he is planning a coup.
The election commission in DRC is currently broke to hold elections and Joseph, the young guerrilla, likes that and has not given it any money. He still feels he should remain in power despite having been there since 2001 when his father was killed.
He doesn’t care that this kind of political indecisiveness may plunge the country back into civil strife as before when millions died. All he is thinking about is a crafty way to beat a constitution which was
created by his own government.
Currently several investors in mining are already moving out of DRC and the economy is slowly losing focus and sharpness.
Protesters are running around and the police are firing teargas back. The guerilla meanwhile is adamant it will be his way or no one comes out alive.
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