Thick skull; Why is Musevini mediating Burundi’s row?

ONUMBA.COM, USA – Whoa, whoa, this is really interesting, to say the very least. Talk about toiling, as though his next money wire transfer depends on it, to put out a picayune worth of fire in another man’s mud house when his own sprawling pricey pad is smoldering in a raging inferno. Perhaps, this is the Holy Grail of misplaced priorities cloaked in glib pursuits that ended up dangling for all to see as being no more than a rodomont and an apocryphal display of regional leadership and neighborly peace making. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, now does it? Who’s Musevini kidding?  Only himself. Or maybe I’m missing something. Please remind me again, if you don’t mind, what exactly old Yoweri Musevini was doing in neighboring Burundi. Apparently, it was a dovish orb.  To hear him explain it, it was to resolve the simmering cantankerous political tiff dangerously brewing in Burundi involving President Pierre Nkurunziza’s mindboggling, glutinous, foolish, childish, reckless and intensely befuddling decision to seek a third term in office knowing, of course, that it is a provokingly egregious malefaction of his country’s presidential term limit law. So on those visibly noble grounds, that of course was a commendable endeavor on Musevini’s part, but then, I have a labyrinthine question: Isn’t it the same kind of potentially messy, mussy tinderbox and kerfuffle truculently taking root, frighteningly morphing and perilously gathering in his own country for stubbornly refusing to cede power and step aside after three long decades as president of Uganda? Hmmmmm? Isn’t it? That explains why a growing cavalcade of his close allies and a swelling pantheon of his chummy political minions are now angrily fed up with him, ganging up on him and clearly united in their clarion and choriambus call for regime change But Musevini, who has a claw-tight grip on Uganda, combined with being as slick as hell, and full of it, is not going anywhere. Recently, he ordered the arrest of former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi and Kizza Besigye, a former presidential candidate. Both former allies have declared their intension to challenge Musenini in the 2016 presidential election.  And both men were eventually released with no charges. What was that all about? Joshua Rubongoya, a professor of politics at Roanoke College, knows, saying that he isn’t surprised by these arrests, predicting future arrests.

“I think the arrests speak to the paranoia that I think is inevitable when a regime is in power for 30 years,” he said, expressing the view that “As legitimacy declines, coercion and the use of the state security apparatus becomes more and more profound and prominent.”

All of which sums up to profound bad news and a big sack of rotten fruits for the Ugandan hoipolloi as it is becoming painfully obvious everyday that regime change is nowhere near the agenda of a completely delusional and bats in the belfry Musevini who after all these years at the helm, for the life of me, has apparently settled in comfortably with many of the same monarchial postures and imperial tendencies and actions that doomed a petulant, narcissistic and swaggering Muammar Gadhafi and his quixotic plans for Libya. It wasn’t too long ago that we saw that same rabid display of a feeling of Sultanhood and ingrained stubbornness by Burkina Faso’s Blaise Compare (didn’t we guys?) until his angry people, saying enough is enough, in a scrum-like manner, showed us all just how to carry out an effective uprising after erupting in a furious rebellion that chased him out of the country quicker than you can say “27 years is enough.” Compaore, for his part, had absolutely no clue what out of nowhere popped up and whacked him hard in the head. But hey, whatever it was, I cartwheeled and loved every nanosecond of it.  Oh for sure, that certified idiot and charlatan deserved all of what clobbered him out of power for killing the charismatic and iconoclastic leader Thomas Isidore Sankara, the great ‘Che’ of Africa,’ Africa’s top hero, the continent’s truest revolutionary and really, really, one of the brightest stars in a bumbling, fumbling continent crowded, then and now, with nefarious, corrupt, greedy and feckless leaders. What played out in Burkina Faso was a volcanic eruption of eons of bottled up fury unleashed by a burgeoning shoal of angry protesters that stormed and set the country’s parliament on fire, ultimately forcing an effete Compaore to succumb and step down, after a brief hedge. He was gone, no questions asked, skedaddling with his family and a bevy of loyal minions, first to Ivory Coast before heading to Morocco, and then to who gives a f—- where. Compaore, who seized power in 1987 at the age of 36 in a putsch he cleverly orchestrated with foreign encouragement and help that killed his comrade and brother Sankara, had conspired with his legislative minions and toads to fix stuff so as to enable him remain in power for “15 more years.” Yes, “15” more years. So dude, Musevini, isn’t 30 years of power, most of them absolute, long enough for you? Hey, you already got Compaore beat by 3 years – so far.  Make no mistake about it, this might not visibly and compellingly seem that way, but this is a reckless indulgency on Musevini’s part, a ticking time bomb, if you will, for failing to see that perhaps his regime is effete and Uganda suffering from lack of fresh ideas from potential new leaders.  How much more can Ugandans take before all hell breaks loose; before this gathering tinderbox under his imperial rule evolve into a full blown anarchy? Broadly speaking though, some African countries have achieved a level of political maturity allowing for a smooth transition of power from one leader to another, and even from a leader of a ruling party to a victorious opposition group. It recently happened in Nigeria for the first time where Muhamadu’s Buhari’s APC took over power from Goodluck Jonathan’s PDP. Whether now or later, the inevitable fact is, at some point, Musevini would have to go. The question now is what form will his departure take, which is entirely up to him to decide? Compaore chose to cling on to power by any means necessary. Needless to say, it was a choice that doomed him, which is why I was glad that he chose to cling on… Cameroon’s grandpa Biya, are you at all paying attention to any of this?

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