Chairman Norbert Mao interestingly Considers President Museveni Stupid Enough To transition Himself out of power!

 

EMPTY DREAMS; Chairman Norbert Mao’s Transition Claims Are Good on Paper but Realistically Shallow and Not Applicable

 

·       Chairman Norbert Mao interestingly Considers President Museveni Stupid Enough To transition Himself out of power!

Embattled DP party president and recently appointed minister of justice and constitutional affairs Hon Norbert Mao claims that he defected to the NRM camp after writing a cooperation agreement to propagate the much needed peaceful transition from the current NRM leadership to another.

The DP leader recently made a pact with the ruling party in which he scooped the ministerial position after making some political concessions.

But it must be noted that some of the concessions he claims to have agreed with the ruling NRM party appear good on paper but very comical when it comes to their application. 

The DP party president insists that one of the reasons that compelled him to make a political pact with the NRM party was to oversee the political transition from president Museveni’s leadership to another.

When subjected to serious scrutiny it appears that chairman Mao envisages a scenario where president Museveni will hand over power to him or another political force in the foreseeable future which he categorically claims to be 2031.

But is president Museveni so stupid that he can create a direct arrangement that pulls him out of power?

As the transition idea was yet to sink in, news filtered through that some senior citizens from Mitooma had endorsed president Museveni as the sole candidate for the 2026 elections!

This Mitooma pronouncement had the immediate effect of throwing Norbert Mao’s transition claims into the political dustbin.

This implies that as of now, the transition from the Museveni leadership has been postponed up to 2031 and beyond!

By that time in 2031 chairman Mao will either be 63 years old, while president Museveni will be 86 years old.

Perhaps at that time political events will swing in a transition direction that has got less of Museveni in the picture but it’s foolhardy to rule him out of the Uganda’s political equation even at that advanced age.

Why?

Look here; many people forget that president Museveni’s father Amos Kaguta died when he was over 94 years old!

This obviously means that the Kaguta family genes have got the potential for a very good life expectancy. 

Remember Amos Kaguta lasted those 90 years without the privilege or trappings of power. What do you expect of a Kaguta who is enjoying direct privileges of power?

Today president Museveni is 78 years old and will therefore be 88 years old by 2030.

When put graphically, this means that by 2031 president Museveni will still be much younger than Pele who is still alive at 82 years old and much younger than President Paul Biya who is 89 years and still firmly in charge of Cameroon!

Biologically speaking and with some good discipline Museveni can live up to 2040 when he will be 95 years and therefore at the same age as the late queen Elizabeth who passed-on last month at age 96.

This means that between now and 2036 Gen Museveni will still be in good physical condition and probably still in power.

By that time in 2036 chairman Mao will be around 78 years of age!

Now, unless Mao has another transition route he intends to use, it’s hard to see his dream come true with mere hope. Mao’s transition projection is also faced with another obstacle in the name of the Muhoozi project.

If president Museveni happens to exit the politics the MK project is the only viable option on the table for the NRM today.  How will Mao maneuver this MK project?

The only option available for Chairman Mao is to continue with the power sharing arrangement with president Museveni and then hope to continue doing so with Gen Muhoozi in some senior capacity.

Because fairly speaking, Museveni has the capacity to sustain himself around for another twenty years. At that time Gen Muhoozi will be around 68 years and relatively at a mature age to takeover power without any hustles.

Where does Chairman Mao fit in this whole political equation?

With all factors held constant, it’s hard to envisage a situation where president Museveni wakes up one day and transitions himself out of power.

Norbert Mao is simply trying to fool Ugandans that he can champion the regime change narrative on a government where he serves as a minister. In other words, he has failed to adapt to the new realties. He wants to continue professing opposition narratives when he is actually deep in government.

He needs to wake up and smell the coffee. Someone should remind him that he is already in power and should endeavor to enjoy it as it comes. Mao needs to forget the crap about transition. Mao also has the problem of thinking that a transition can only be a reality when he becomes president. The truth is that he has already transitioned into power.

Otherwise he sounds like a clown whenever he talks about the possibility that president Museveni will simply transition himself out of power.

The author Fred Daka Kamwada is researcher, blogger policy analyst.

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Scientists Need To Investigate The Hypothetical Connection Between WAR-TORN AREAS And Ebola Virus

 

 

EBOLA HYPOTHESIS; Why Is It That The Ebola Virus Has Emerged in Previously war-Torn Areas Like Sierra Leone, Ivory coast, Congo, Northern Uganda and Mubende? 

 

·       Scientists Need To Investigate The Hypothetical Connection Between WAR-TORN AREAS And Ebola Virus

·       The Ugandan government needs to swing in action and impose a mini-lockdown on Mubende district.

 

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni is expected to address the country today in reaction to the recent emergence of the Ebola virus which has already claimed dozens of lives in parts of Mubende.

The virus which s considered as one of the deadliest has got no immediate cure but the medical fraternity is still fumbling with some vaccines which can prevent but are not certified as yet as the panacea.

The country is gripped with fear with some parents are rushing to retrieve their children from boarding schools to prevent them from contracting the virus. Sensitive citizens have already adopted personal measures to avoid contracting the virus by avoiding Mubende as a destination.

There are justified fears that the country might need a mini-lockdown to mitigate its spread across the country.

THE EBOLA PATHOGEN PATERN  

 

Scientists claim that the Ebola virus is caused by fruit-eating bats which transmits them to monkeys and then to human beings. There are various types of Ebola viruses ranging from the Zaire strain, the Sudan strain and ivory coast strain.

 

A pathogen is a disease causing agent. If its weak then the disease can live long enough to be spread to many people because it cannot kill its victims with immediate effect.

But if the pathogen is strong, it cannot last long enough to spread to very many people because it kills its victims with immediate effect.

What made the covid-19 pandemic take long to stop was because its pathogen is very weak to the extent that it can hibernate in the victim’s body for long enough time to enable him or her spread it to so many other people.

 

In its own right the Ebola pathogen is more deadly than that of the corona virus because its pathogen is so strong that it immediately claims the life of someone who contracts it and therefore get buried with its victim. The fact that the Ebola pathogen is strong is actually a blessing in disguise because makes it difficult to spread expansively because it kills its victim and perishes with it.

Therefore this means that it can confine itself in one area and kill its victims from that particular region without spreading so far and wide.

This makes it a bit containable and less of a threat in that respect.

But the problem is that it’s very contagious to the extent that any contact with the fluids of an infected person or even the dead body of the infected person can lead to immediate infection.

This means that when someone dies of Ebola, you don’t bother to attend the burial or even visit the graveyard as it can lead to immediate infection.

The Ugandan Experience

 This is not the first time Uganda has been hit by the Ebola virus. Some few years ago some parts northern Uganda were badly hit to the extent that we even lost Dr Lukwiya who was directly involved in treating the patients.

After that episode Uganda became an authority on the Ebola virus to the extent that Ugandan doctors were sent to Sierra Leone when it was badly affected.

In the most recent years, our neighbors on the western borders of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been the known origin of the Ebola virus having contracted it from eating monkey meat on the banks of river Zaire.

However, it’s worth noting that the Congolese are not NECESARILY the only ones who eat monkey meat. There are monkey meat eating communities in the Amazon forests and some parts of Asia but have never contracted Ebola.

In fact most parts of the equatorial forest that stretches to parts of west Africa in countries like Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea , Congo-Brazzaville all have communities that eat monkey meat.

But why is it that Ebola managed to heavily strike Congo, Sierra Leone and Gulu and now Mubende?

This phenomenon has forced me to suggest a hypothetical theory which I want to advance here to the effect that the virus could be having a connection to areas that have undergone wars in the past. And as you know, war directly translates into death of people in big numbers.

For instance Sierra Leone and Liberia suffered a very bad civil war that claimed millions of people in the early days of the 21^st century.

You also need to be reminded that parts of northern Uganda, particularly Gulu underwent a horrible civil war for over twenty years.

While Sierra Leoneans like Corporal Foday Sankoh were killing people in Freetown, Ugandans like Joseph Kony were killing people in northern Uganda. At the same time Ugandan and Rwandan troops exported war to Congo from 1996 up-to-date

When you check the background history of Mubende district, you will find that it was the epicenter of the 1981-86 NRM bush war.

Kabamba barracks which was attacked by Gen Museveni and his group on 6^th February 1981 was a big theater of war.

In addition to that. Mubende district is part of the Bunyoro areas that endured colonial wars between Omukama kabalega and the Britons at the close of the 19^th century.

Now this pattern certainly shows that there is a hypothetical connection between war and the Ebola virus.

It’s safe to speculate further that just like the remains of dinosaurs and human beings are connected to fossil fuel that eventually culminate into oil wells, the Ebola virus might be connected to dead human beings.

 Since the medical fraternity has not been able to discover the vaccines of most of these viruses like Aids, Corona, Zika, Ebola, etc it means that all theories advanced in regard to those viruses must not be dismissed without subjecting them to a thorough medical study.

 The way forward

The Ugandan government needs to swing in action and impose a mini-lockdown on Mubende district.

This means that restrictions of movement of people from and to those affected areas are imposed until the situation returns to normal.

But most of all, Scientists Need To Investigate The Hypothetical Connection Between war-torn areas And the Ebola Virus

 

The author Fred Daka Kamwada is a blogger , journalist and policy analyst ;kamwadafred@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE UNANSWERED QUESTION; Was Gen Elly Tumwine Very Enthusiastic About The Muhoozi Project?

 

THE UNANSWERED QUESTION; Was Gen Elly Tumwine Very Enthusiastic About The Muhoozi Project?

·        In 2020 The Intelligence Agencies Briefed President Museveni That Gen Elly Tumwine’s Health Was Not Suitable For Him To Continue As Minister    

Gen Elly Tumwine who passed on this morning, was a man of very many personalities ranging from being a teacher, artist, musician, a born again Christian, a soldier but most of all a committed cadre of the National Resistance Movement.

I first met Gen Elly Tumwine in 2007 when my journalism journey was beginning to flow. At that time the UPDF was making preparations to celebrate the 26^th Tareh Sita celebrations which normally take place on the 6^th February to commemorate the day the NRA stormed Kabamba barracks.

We were making a special edition of that Historic day, so we needed to approach the principal actors of the Kabamba attack. I went with my colleague, who is now in London, to Elly Tumwine’s art-home at Nomo gallery in Nakasero.

We found him doing what he loves most, teaching some whites who had gathered in one of the rooms at Nomo gallery.

We heard his smooth baritone voice echoing at the entrance which is almost 30 meters away from the road.

We had to wait for almost three to four hours, having arrived at 2pm in the afternoon; we patiently had to wait up to 6pm when he got time to meet us.

His beautiful daughter (who was around 16 years) and performed the duties as his personal assistant had notified him that some journalists were waiting to conduct an interview with him.

When he came out, he smiled and laughed at us. On two or three occasions we had grown impatient and wanted to abandon the interview-and he could read the impatience on our faces.

He looked at us and acknowledged that he had made us wait for far too long-but advised to adopt patience as a virtue in life.

My colleague had been mowed with hunger and looked pale in the face with dry lips. He was insisting that we leave and do other things, but although I was equally dying of hunger, i flatly rejected to quit.

I insisted on waiting because the pullout magazine would not make sense without his interview since he was a key protagonist in the Kabamba episode and had even lost an eye during the struggle.

He told us that the president (Museveni) had been his teacher in secondary school in the 60s and that he never knew he would join the army but crude circumstances pushed him into the war struggle. he also revealed that he actually lost his eye at a place called Bukomero and was given a bicycle ride for almost 30 kilometers before he connected to Mulago hospital and eventually Nairobi where he got treatment. it therefore comes as a coincidence that he died from Nairobi hospital where he had gone for treatment.

He gave us some slight information and lectured us about resilience and things like that. My colleague then made a mistake by asking a very stupid question-which went thus ‘’Gen Tumwine do you have a recollection of how many enemy soldiers you shot dead during the war’’?  

This question annoyed him so much that he expelled us.

‘’young fellows, you shouldn’t waste my time asking silly questions. Have you ever heard any military officer reveal such information’’?

We left and moped up some small stuff which we published.

I interfaced with him again when some sierra Leonean guy approached me and asked if I could help him get in touch with one of the UPDF generals to sign on his manuscript he had written about the war in Sierra Leone.

The fellow had told me that he was with Capt Valentine Strasser (who later shot to power as president of Sierra Leone at the age of 27 years) during the war in which rebels like Corporal Foday Sankoh ravaged Sierra Leone in what can be termed as one of Africa’s worst civil wars.

We went and met Gen Tumwine on the steps of parliament and he engaged us in a conversation by kept asking my colleague if he was indeed knew president Valentine Strasser.

We actually asked him why he had not written a book about what he had experienced in the 1981-86 bush war. To which he told us that he had obviously written but was mopping up some facts and trying to memorize some of the small details that he doesn’t wish to forget.

‘’You see, books of a biographic nature need plenty of time, because they basically tell your life story’’

He revealed that he would have loved to sign on the manuscript but he had no time of reading long things. ‘’And there is no way I can authoritatively recommend a book which I have not read to the end’’ he asserted.

At first as army commander he was notoriously arrogant to the extent that he closed an entire street that housed his residence in Kololo.

Later on he became born again and became very free, casual and very liberal with his life to the extent that he moved without escorts on the streets of Kampala and was ready to engage in any conversation you threw at him.

He maintained a lean frame throughout the time we saw him-which attests to the discipline he had.

From what we saw of him, he seemed to actually enjoy unreserved control of all the UPDF generals.

For instance when brig noble Mayombo died , I saw how he convened a small meeting of the UPDF Generals  that included Gen David Tinyefunza aka Sejjussa ,Gen Angina, and the late Gen Aronda Nyakairima (who was the CDF at the time), on the steps of parliament.

They seemed to be discussing Mayombo’s funeral arrangements that were due in fort portal. I noticed that he (Gen Tumwine) was the only one speaking for much of the time, assigning each one of them roles while they respectfully listened to him.

Nobody contradicted or interrupted him when he was speaking, which entails the discipline that you get in the army.

TOWARDS THE END

But towards the last two years of his reign as security minister, something happened that dented his image when he claimed that the security forces would shoot to kill the people demonstrating on the streets after the arrest of NUP party president Robert Kyagulanyi in which over 53 people were shot and killed by the Ugandan security agencies.

At that time he looked very frail and everyone got concerned about his health condition.

People power leader and NUP party president Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobiwine actually chided him by revealing that rather than issuing threats , Gen Tumwine needed help because he looked like someone who was about to die.

There are unconfirmed reports that when president Museveni received intelligence reports about the failing health of Gen Elly Tumwine, he dropped him as security minister. The president reportedly knew that (Gen Tumwine wouldn’t last longer for him to continue serving and therefore never wanted to endure the embarrassment of having one of his minister’s die in office.

Soon after that, Gen Tumwine was dropped as security minister, he issued a damning statement in which he advised president Museveni to prepare for a smooth peaceful transition of power.

He also shocked Ugandans when he labeled his boss as an autocratic leader (ningamba nyenka) who should listen rather than run the country on his own.

But one of the tricky questions surrounding his life was whether he subscribed to the Muhoozi project or not. It could have been interesting to hear from him in regard to such issues as they are what pre-occupy Ugandans today.

REST WELL GEN ELLY TUMWINE, YOU PLAYED YOUR PART

The Author Fred Daka Kamwada Is A Blogger, Journalist And Critical Thinker

kamwadafred@gmail.com       

 

 

 

 

 

M7 AU CONTRADICTIONS; IS President Museveni Agitating For An African Federation Different From That Of Col Muamar Ghadafi?

If there is any African Leader who is good at delivering theoretical lectures about African unity without meaning it in practical terms then it is none other than President Yoweri Museveni.

During his swearing in ceremony held on 12^th May 2021, lamented that Africa was suffering because it lacked a center of gravity on which to gravitate whenever it’s faced with insurmountable challenges.

The Ugandan president revealed that Henry Kissinger, the then powerful US secretary of state in the 70s, once rebuked Africa by asserting that even if Africans are annoyed they had no capacity to actualize their frustrations by practical means/war. In other words the world leaders had freewill to implement any policy which oppressed Africans without fear because the Africans couldn’t react in any way.

One would suspect that these are the sentiments the western powers had when they supported the apartheid regime in South Africa for many years despite the lamentations and outcries from the whole world.

 The Ugandan president who has been in power for the last 35 years then lamented that nobody cares about Africans to the extent that they are being persecuted in America, Europe Asia and in Africa itself because it lacked a center of gravity.

 

He then explained that ‘’when Europeans get in trouble, they run to the United States of America for help, when North Korea feels persecuted they run to Russia, when some Asian countries get persecuted, they run to china.

Who is there to protect Africa? Where does Africa go when faced with problems? Museveni lamented.

All that time, some of us thought that he was delivering one of the best speeches of his time, but just wait a minute.

Let’s re-examine m7’s sentiments

In many respects it’s true that Africa and Africans in general don’t seem to have fallback position when faced with attacks from the rest of the world.

It is therefore fair to say that Gen Museveni was making a very strong point which no other African leader has ever endeavored to make.

The only African other than Museveni to make such a strong case for a united Africa was the former Ghanaian president the late Kwame Nkrumah and the fallen Libyan leader the late Col Muamar Ghadafi.

Although Nkrumah came close to uniting Africa in the 60s, he was faced with the challenges of uniting an African continent which had many of its countries still under colonialism.

 Nkrumah’s other undoing was due to the fact that he was not domestically strong enough to lead Ghana itself (and was eventually overthrown in a coup by his own Ghanaian army) and thereof lacked the capacity –logistical and otherwise, to enforce it.

But Ghadafi was better placed because he had a relatively sound economic and military base (domestically) to enforce the African federation.

Ghadafi was so passionate about the African federation to extent that he physically financed the African parliament and contributed funds ranging from 15% to 25% of the budget for the African union.

Yet when he came close to convincing the African leaders to embrace the federation, he was faced with resistance from two leaders; South African president Thabo Mbeki and –would you believe it-our own president Yoweri Museveni!

Well, well, well.

It’s fair to listen to Museveni’s arguments for opposing Ghadafi’s project.

I the author (together with a group of youths) got the opportunity to meet president Museveni at state house Entebbe in 2015. And he curtly told us that the reason why he never felt comfortable and openly opposed Ghadafi’s idea of an African federation was because he is hard pressed to believe that people with different cultures, morals and values can unite together.

He then convinced us that since Ghadafi was an Arab, there was no way the Arab north could effectively unite with a black Africans of the south.

He then suggested that he was of a strong view that it was better for Africa to unite and integrate through regional federations like the ECOWAS, EAC, SADC, COMMESA ETC.

He explained that it was, for instance, easier to integrate as East Africa because those societies have a lot in common.  He clarified that when you go to the surrounding  countries of Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Congo, Southern Sudan, Rwanda , Burundi you hear the dialect of some tribes very similar to those of Uganda. So it’s easier for them to integrate with us.

He fortified his argument by saying that even when some people think that the Luo and the bantu are different, they share a lot in terms of history.

He explained that when you go to Toro and Bunyoro , you will find luo names like Oyo( which is name shared by Toro’s king Oyo Nyimba).

He went on to explain that when Omukama Kabalega of Bunyoro was faced with a confrontation from the British, he ran to Lango, where he was actually captured.

In his own estimation Museveni therefore, doesn’t believe that we (sub Saharan Africa) have much in common with the Arab north. Phew!

Could that be the reason why there was no invited leader from the Arab north on his swearing in ceremony? That is matter of complete conjecture.

We agree that president Museveni is entitled to all those views as his own.

But the problem is for Museveni to go on and contradict himself and speak exactly what Ghadafi was agitating for, the unity of Africa.

Can we say that he is trying to agitate for a different Africa from that of Col Ghadafi?

If he (president Museveni )has failed to unite East Africa,(the chairman of the EAC Rwandan president Paul Kagame did not attend his swearing in ceremony) how does he (president Museveni)expect to unite the whole African continent?

If Gen Museveni professes NOT to be either pro-east or pro-west , and at the same time opposed Ghadafi’s idea of Uniting Africa , where does he expect Africa’s center of gravity?

Perhaps president Museveni might be agitating for an African federation different from that proposed by the late Col Muamar Ghadafi. You never know!

The author Fred Daka Kamwada is a journalist and a blogger.

kamwadafred@gmail.com

 

Gen Museveni’s Suggestion Of fighting Man-To-Man Against The NATO Forces To Save Libya’s Col Muamar Ghadafi was Laughably Unfeasible

 

Gen Museveni’s Suggestion Of fighting Man-To-Man Against The NATO Forces To Save Libya’s Col Muamar Ghadafi was Laughably Unfeasible  And Would Have Ended In Tears

During his swearing-in speech at Kololo airstrip, President Yoweri Museveni revealed that when the western powers started attacking Libya’s Col Muamar Ghadafi, he called South African president Jacob Zuma with suggestions of defending the Libyan leader.

The Ugandan president who was in absolute jovial mood said that he felt that it was easier to fight back against the western powers by countering them man-to-man on the battle field

The controversial Libyan leader was pushed out of power by combined western powers under the command of NATO forces which used the air-force to bomb Tripoli to pieces until Ghadafi capitulated and fled to his other town of Sitre where he was eventually captured by rebel forces and killed.

But president Museveni ‘let the cat out of the bag’ when he said that he had nursed the idea of fighting back man-to-man with the NATO forces  but was let down by Col Ghadafi who hurriedly fled Tripoli without putting up a more formidable fight against the western powers.

Although president Museveni’s suggestions were appealing to the ears of the pan African audience-who clapped endlessly, they were militarily infeasible.

In fact his, was more of rhetoric than a realistic possibility. It was more of a chest thumping speech than a military revelation.

Those of us who listened knew that he was merely exaggerating his own military capacity. Deep inside he knows what would result from that course of action.

The reality  

For starters, the African union under the aegis of Jean Ping tried its best to engage the western powers to spare Col Ghadafi to no avail. He engaged the principal protagonists of the war against Ghadafi that were mostly led by the then American secretary of state Hilary Clinton , French president Nicolas Sarkozy , Italian prime minister Silvio Burluscroni, with American president barrack Obama as the cheer leader watching enthusiastically about the proceedings.

To cover up their evil intentions , the western powers decided to hide under the NATO command on the pretext of ‘stopping Ghadafi from killing his own people’ who had risen up to protest against his regime.

The Libyan people, mostly from the eastern town of Benghazi had sprung up when a Tunisian graduate called Bouaziz set himself on fire when the city authorities seized the goods he was selling in Tunis.

The Tunisians then rose to protest which culminated into the much-talked-about Arab spring that had resulted into the fall of several regimes in northern Africa including the 33 year reign of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, 24 year old reign of Tunisian president Ben Ali, amongst others.

The revolutions also spread to Yemen and Syria where President Bashar Assad has since fought on to maintain his grip on power while the Yemen conflict is even getting more worse.

Actually, initially, the western powers were badly interested in the immediate fall of the Syrian leader Bashar Assad, as postulated by American secretary of state Hilary Clinton who lambasted Assad at every opportunity. But Russia intervened and managed to maintain Assad in power to-date.

 

American president Barrack Obama personally stepped on the presidential podium and told Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to step down while the Tunisian leader Ben Ali fled to exile.

When the western powers refused to relent on the regime change project, Jean Ping travelled to almost all the African capitals to seek guidance from the African leaders on how to save the Libyan leader.

It’s on record that Ghadafi sponsored the African union with around100 million Euros per year.

It was therefore in the direct interest of the African union to save Ghadafi from collapsing.  As war was dragging on Ghadafi tried to put his case to the world through constant broadcasts where he spoke for hours sometimes bragging , using threats and at other times lamenting.

It was at that time that South African president Jacob Zuma travelled to Libya and met Ghadafi, possibly the last African leader to meet Ghadafi before his death, and beseeched him to leave the country.

But the relentless Libyan leader insisted that ‘’he was born in Libya, has lived in Libya all his life, and will therefore die in Libya” 

He stubbornly chose to die fighting and he indeed died on the frontline of his motherland in the cave of his own mother town of Sitre, a town where he was born and had loved so much during his lifetime.

How realistic was Gen M7’s idea?

Meanwhile, getting back to president Museveni’s suggestion of digging in the fight back at NATO, one might be tempted to ask , where was Museveni all that time?

If he had indeed considered an African military intervention why did he have to wait all that long for Ghadafi to flee from Tripoli?

Gen Museveni suggests that Ghadafi quit Tripoli so soon and let them down but the period during which Ghadafi was at siege was long enough for him to deploy and save his friend.

Secondly, and most importantly, even if Museveni and the African union had deployed and countered the NATO forces, its highly unlikely that they would have coped with the NATO fire power.

Why?

Because if the NATO forces were using aerial bombardment to strike Tripoli how does Museveni’s idea of fighting man-to-man arise or even survive?.

The NATO jet fighters and drones would have bombed Gen Museveni and his group out of the open caves of Tripoli.

Another thing that puts Museveni’s man-to-man idea to the dust bin is about the Libyan terrain. Was the Libyan terrain feasible for man-to-man warfare?

 

Flat and desertic as it is in Libya, how do you fight man to man against forces that are using drones and planes to carpet bomb you out of position?

You may presume that Gen Museveni was perhaps suggesting that the AU forces would dig in and fight urban warfare.

But Gen Museveni must be told that Saddam Hussein employed that urban warfare strategy against the Americans but was badly destroyed. You all recall how Sadam Hussein’s two sons Uday and Qusay Hussein were killed in the buildings by the US forces.

Therefore and in conclusion, Gen Museveni’s suggestion of fighting the western forces in defense of Col Ghadafi Was just for laughs and only generated applause from sycophants who have low appreciation of military strategy.

Tomorrow we shall delve into president Museveni’s lamentations about Africa’s lack of locus or gravitational force

The author Fred Daka Kamwada is a journalist, a blogger and an enthusiast of military science.

kamwadafred@gmail.com

kamwadafred@gmail.com