President Museveni’s scary statement should be opposed
President Museveni’s speech delivered at Hoima on June 11, 2010 is very scary indeed. Ugandans and their friends must not allow his scary remarks to be repeated or put into action.
When President Museveni, a head of state and chairman of the ruling party, talked about cutting someone’s head for entering his olubimbi (territory) was he saying, for example, that:
- opposition parties cannot aspire to form a government in Uganda with a new president
- poor people cannot aspire to become rich
- illiterate people cannot aspire to be educated
- women cannot aspire to inherit their parents’ properties
- women cannot aspire to work outside of the home and earn an income
- raw material exporting countries cannot aspire to industrialize?
If our understanding of his message is correct, then President Museveni is advocating a static division of labor or comparative advantage which is very difficult to accept. For example, Uganda cannot and should not accept to remain a producer and exporter of raw materials because we do not want to enter the lubimbi or territory of industrialized countries. This lubimbi concept explains why under Museveni’s leadership Uganda has de-industrialized.