𝐔𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚’𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

After four decades in State House, the nation’s longest-serving gardener (𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐡𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐰𝐚) has finally achieved what agronomists said was impossible: a country where the granaries are empty but his offshore bank accounts are in full bloom.

Call it trickle-down farming; except nothing ever trickled down, and precious little was left to farm.

The latest chapter in this bumper harvest of irony comes from Karamoja, where prolonged drought has scorched crops and pushed families to the edge of starvation.

Thousands of families have already been wiped out by famine as Humanitarian agencies are pleading for urgent support.

Yet, amidst all this, despot Museveni is simply fixated on seeing more Ugandans die instead of giving emergency relief. Where is the ministry of Agriculture and what happened to the national basket?

The last time I checked, Karamoja was being used by Museveni’s Somali half-brother Rufu aka Salim Saleh for extensive tobacco farming and cattle raring at the expense of human lives.

However, the masterstroke of institutional foresight is this power-greedy despot Museveni who has consistently placed his dead wife at the helm of Karamoja affairs to ensure that they are looting all the seeds, livestock, or anything from the region and let its natives starve to death.

Consequently, the region that should be the nation’s foodbasket has instead become a case study in how to turn drought into a mass murder weapon.

The seeds are gone and stolen by Museveni and his inner circle, the rains have failed. But rest assured: the harvest of power continues, evergreen, unbothered by drought, indifferent to season — the one crop in Uganda that has never once failed to yield over the past four decades of (mis)rule.

Indeed, Museveni Must Go and the time is now!