Former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) presidential candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye, has named his cabinet for the ‘peoples government’.
Dr. Besigye has run for presidency for four times with losing and even being detained by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who has been president of Uganda since 26 January 1986.
Besigye in January 2018said that ‘People’s government’ would swear into office people that will constitute it, as part of the ‘tubalemese’ campaign aimed at awakening Ugandans and intensifying the process of organizing citizens to take back their power from the government.
“This government will be at district, regional and national level. We shall publish dates for the inauguration of the different bodies,” Dr. Besigye told the media.
Kampala’s Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has been named the deputy president. Proscovia Salaamu Musumba and Ibrahim Semujju Nganda were named the prime minister and deputy respectively.
The form of dictatorship offered in Uganda might just push citizens to the wall until they speak up like Besigye and Bobi Wine who at one point has run revolution campaigns.
The trend in Africa of holding on power has been with the leaders since colonization. Zimbabwe had Robert Mugabe who ruled for three decades is an example of African dictators who hold on to power to safeguard their ‘treasures’.
Kenya’s retired president Daniel Arap Moi ruled for 24 years and had initiated one-party state defacto. The ruling government now under Uhuru Kenyatta is trying hard to increase the limits of terms as he nears the end of his second term in 2022.
Kenya’s opposition leader, Raila Odinga, also initiated the ‘people’s government’ after they claimed that election was rigged by the incumbent president, Uhuru Kenyatta. His NRM party conducted the swearing in and became the people’s president which saw Miguna Miguna deported to Canada.
For Besigye, he has a lot of work to do as there is no ‘democracy’ in Uganda.