We should discuss institutions not individuals
Sejusa’s return and the NRM delegates’ conference capped the politically tense 2014. Shortly after, as many Ugandans took a shot at writing their 2015 resolutions came the political twists and turns that involved again the decorated war general Sejusa meeting his earlier on perceived military and political nemesis under vague circumstances at the state house. As many Ugandans were trying to figure out the ‘who is fooling who’ of the Sejusa – Museveni isometrics, fell the judicial hammer when court dismissed an application prompted by NRM’s former Secretary General, Amama Mbabazi seeking to block the swearing in of the new appointed NRM executive members. As if that was just not enough, NRM’s National Executive Committee rejected Amama’s nomination to the party’s top organ, the Central Executive Committee – nothing less than double jeopardy for Amama, just in the first week of 2015. Something that strikes me in all this is the emphasis that many see...