Uganda’s challenge for 2012
There is understandable frustration among Ugandans who are agitating for a quick regime change. They are complaining that opposition parties are not doing enough in large part for selfish reasons that prevent them to come together and fight as one.
Some are arguing that opposition parties are ineffective in large part because the leadership is from NRM or opposition parties have been infiltrated by NRM agents.
There are those who are getting impatient with a non-violent and diplomatic strategy of effecting political change and are calling for outright war because fire must be met with fire.
There are those who are tired of the elite that have done nothing under the NRM to break the chains that have kept Ugandans trapped in poverty. Instead they have lined their pockets with looted public money.
There are those who are complaining that many in the leadership – NRM and opposition parties – are not patriotic enough because they are not Ugandans.
There are those who are praying for emergence of de Clerk and Mandela in Uganda to hammer out an agreement for a new Uganda.
These voices of frustration are getting louder.