Besigye is rightly Pain in the A** for African ‘Looters’

When they stop (mis)directing public funds to their ill pockets, you can cease calling them looters. They would be more of leaders than looters.

That’s not the point though. The point is some of these ‘elected’ leaders were in Uganda to rubber-stamp re-election of the country’s president, His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

Yea, African Presidents were there. They were supposed to be. It’s like a spiritual call for these presidents to avail themselves to such ceremonies, where one of them is receiving often another illegal ruling term.

Being in that place where Museveni was officially given another mandate to lead Uganda and continue hunting opposing voices like Kizza Besigye or others who think Museveni is bure kabisa (Swahili for nothing at all), is nothing but righting what Museveni and his government have been doing over the recent past.

The presence of these presidents Mwai Kibaki (Kenya), Goodluck Jonathan (Nigeria), Jekaya Kikwete (Tanzania), Joseph Kabila (DRC), ha-ha Robert Mugabe (you know it, Zimbabwe) and others without necessarily mentioning names and certainly not belittling them, gives Museveni legitimacy not only to crack down the Besigye and other Besigye’s but also to continue breaking their car windows with wicked hammers and to perpetually spray their god-given eyes with all sorts of watery pepper and re-colour their bodies with hot pinkish liquids.  

You might argue that a 25-year stint in state house somehow allows one to bully others, steal elections at will and even refuse opponents flights home. It could be true if what Muammar Gadaffi sought to do (massacre them) to the people he had led for 40 years plus when they rebelled against him early this year.

Anyway, so when those guns were bombing the air or rather showing the mightiness of Museveni to everyone who cared plus Besigye, the veteran opposition figure was apparently landing his tattered self from Nairobi at some distant airport. While he was doing these and issuing fresh threats, the owners of Uganda were dining and wining and casting out the image of Besigye. It’s logical that Museveni hosted his colleagues for lunch, dinner, or something like that after the being sworn in. And it’s also logical that he (strong feeling he did so) boasted of crushing the niggling noisemaker-cum-friend and may have also back-bit him on how weak he was politically and maybe added also that his food is made of teargas and such.

Simply put. What the leaders who went in solidarity to witness the swearing in of Museveni, were telling Kizza Besigye is that he’s equal to a barking dog with no teeth to bite. That he’s that serious pain in that place who deserved to be crushed the way Museveni has been doing.