CAN THE NATIONAL DIALOGUE BE A SOLUTION TO UGANDA’S PROBLEMS?

There is a lot of excitement in the Ugandan political circles over what has been termed as the national dialogue. This dialogue is being organised by an organisation that is called the Elder’s forum. 

Some of the politicians who are doing their politics in this country called Uganda do still think that the current president of the republic of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni can still accept some form of dialogue with them and may be in the end hand over power willingly to them.  

That’s an impossible feat that I do think can never happen in this era of the NRM government. What the NRM government is protecting is exactly what the opposition political parties actually want to get their hands on. It is just like woman who is protecting herself from being raped by men.  

The woman might be in the process of protecting her virginity from the men, the men on the other hand want to take away her virginity. 

So this cat and mouse chase between the opposition party members and the ruling National Resistance Movement party will continue and we don’t see any end to it unless something very catastrophic happens which we actually pray should not happen to our lovely country. 

The national dialogue will take place but I do believe that the true solutions to the problems that are facing Ugandans will not be found during this kind of dialogue. 

If we are to find solutions to our Ugandan problems like corruption, poor service delivery, then we will need to have the full involvement of the ruling political party called NRM. 

These are the people that are controlling the Ugandan government and if there is to be a very significant change in the way services are delivered to the people of Uganda, these people will need to come out of their cocoons and do that and nothing more.

 If that does not happen, we will continue to have hospitals that do not have drugs and poor road networks all over the country. 

There is no where this NRM government is going in the near future. They say nothing does last forever and Iam very sure the cracks of the collapse of this government will one day show and Ugandans who are courageous enough will take charge of their country.  

National dialogue as it stands now is nor actually the ultimate solution for the Ugandan problems. We just need to wait and the real cracks of this government will show. 

For now, the Ugandan political activists can go around organising a national dialogue but all I know is that these people are just going there to take some tea and enjoy the air-conditioned hotels where these things are being held and nothing more. 

They can continue with the national dialogue and it will never yield any fruit in the near future. 

Before we can even talk about the national dialogue, we should be asking ourselves the question, how did these people come into power? 

Well, they used guns to grab power from the earlier regimes and it is only that with the help of other countries abroad that will help us bring down this government. 

So in my own opinion, the national dialogue will not help us Ugandans who love peace to actually achieve the peace.  

The good thing is that there is a movement of youths that re rising and very soon they will throw out the old guards that have been keeping us in captivity for as long as 30 years and most of us have seen only one president and that’s it and nothing more. 

In the meantime, they should keep attending those dialogue meetings. One day the cracks will surely give way.