The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
“In a country without a critical mass of mature leaders, you do not want to create paralysis,” Muntu told The Independent, “Even when you are going through a divorce, you try to save the relationship.”
So far, many of his followers have been very supportive with insiders saying that the funds to conduct the consultations are raised by supporters.
Goldino Nyamugabwa, the FDC youth chairperson of Ibanda district and an advisor of Muntu who is travelling with him says the consultations are about harmonizing the three competing voices within the party.
“There are those who believe in defiance only, those who believe in party development, and the third group, which believes the two approaches can work together,” Nyamugabwa explained.
Like Muntu, he emphasizes the importance of dealing with the contradictions afflicting the party to achieve unity.
However, analysts and even FDC members argue that it is hard to achieve common ground with the different factions in the party.
The attendance of the consultations is by invitation and civil society actors, religious leaders, elders, FDC members and NRM members who are pro-change have been a part of the meetings.
Nyamugabwa says they hope to be done with the consultations in a month’s time and then engage the party leadership. He explains that they looked for a way of avoiding situations where one leader in the party takes power and then the other goes into the trenches.
However to Atuheire, it is Nyamugabwa, Muntu and the rest on the consultative team who seem like they are not toeing the party line, and therefore entrenching the contradictions.
Muntu’s approach is not helping either in form or substance and in the end he would have embarrassed himself. I do like Muntu’s personality but I did detaste his managerial style particularly in a hostile environment such as Uganda’s. The wise counsel to him would be to eat his humble pie and sit down his ass and concentrate on how to improve the party from within. Muntu cannot and will never marshal a greater political muscle than what the FDC offers him. Yes, his departure hurts the image and objectives of the party but his departure doesn’t give him his ultimate objective of regime change that can only be united if we remain united. What Muntu refers to as ‘party contradictions’ are restricted to the methodology. If Muntu is hellbent on “organization” and building party structures, who refuses him from creating a department (if not already in existence) that deals with that? I want to think that Muntu is using the FDC as the “trajon horse” to deliver his own party. I wish him the very best.
MUNTU is a SERIAL TRAITOR, so forming or joining another party will not be out of character.
MUNTU grew up, was almost born into UPC, he in our African context was the son of OBOTE.
HE went and joined the bush war, because he was joining ” his own” – abeitu- because he considered the northerners were not ” his enough.”
MUNTU was and is today what he is because of what M 7 made him. There are no special individual qualities that one can attribute to him that lead him to be made the army commander at the time, over and above a group of about maybe 10 people, any one of whom could have become the army commander, some probably more deserving than him. THE only reason he was made the army commander is /was in line with M 7s style of picking someone almost from obscurity and elevating them so that they owe absolute allegiance to him, they too fully knowing that they would not be where they are if not for M 7 – ANITE style.
AND yet when he was dropped as army commander and literally put on katebe, as was bound to happen, this is when he started to realise that things were not quite right . Others , like Tinyefuza and even Tumukunde have risked their careers and said what they think of the system, even when they are still serving officers.
LET him go back to the party where he would be most comfortable, a party where his own brother NUWAGABA HERBERT is still a serving member , and is a political appointee in his current job.
MUNTU is fancying himself a little too much when he says ” the country is short on a mass of mature leaders”
REALLY.
AND it just so happens that you fall among that select group of mature leaders.
MUNTU and quite a few others, but most especially him, have never overcome the fact that the person who was his junior/ subordinate , is now a head of state across the border. HE agonizes about what would have happened if at the time of the start of the war , he was not in the position he was.