The case for presidential term limits in Uganda: Part II
By 1996....After the NRA (National Resistance Army) turned into NRM (National Resistance Movement) things began to fall apart. It is one thing to rule people as a rebel group...it is another thing to become a democratic country
Under NRM Uganda has accomplished a lot and in fact if the current leadership of the NRM can hear the cry of our nation: no doubt history will for the most part judge them in favor.
However, since history has two sides. The NRM leadership cannot stop providing historians with materials that will cast the whole party in a dark shadow of history. Under the NRM, the constitution was amended uplifting presidential term limits: political participation is limited to only those who favor the party position: In April 2013!
The NRM party tried to kick its own members out of The August House because they disagreed with the party’s politics: the attempt failed after Rebecca Kadaga, Speaker of Parliament broke ties with party line and ruled in favor of the constitution.
The NRM government is so big that it never ceases to conspire: the NRM will also be remembered for high unemployment among youth, across the board corruption, high numbers of poverty resulting in poor services: cross the country and failure to fulfill the theses of Ugandan investors.
The quality of political leaders in the NRM party or be it the Ugandan political system is so poor that the dynamics of change cannot be spotted in a near distance; but only far as a twinkling star. This is not to be hopeless but as everything that has life has to grow and die: the political elites in Uganda are still taking baby steps: The NRM has created a culture where they cannot be opposed or they will throw you under the bus even if you belong to the NRM. Therefore if you are not running on the NRM ticket, you will not win: politicians know this: as much as the NRM enjoys a majority in political Uganda: they do not have a majority in the non-political Uganda:
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