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There are many ways for a country to descend into madness. Some countries collapse under economic mismanagement, others under corruption, and some under the weight of a dictatorship that has mistaken the presidency for a personal inheritance.

Then there are countries where the national security apparatus appears to have been recruited into resolving a marital disagreement. Unfortunately, we happen to have all those situations here in our country, Uganda 🇺🇬

A case in a point is General Elweru, a seasoned General Officer who has spent years commanding soldiers, barking orders and enjoying the privileges of military power. A fierce general accustomed to having people salute him, obey him and fear him.

Yet, somewhere along the way, he apparently discovered a dangerous battlefield that no military academy had prepared him for: the President’s bedroom.

You heard me correctly; Elweru developed an intimate relationship with the President’s wife – Janet Kataaha Kembabazi z’abashija.

Unfortunately for him, despot Museveni is not the forgiving, emotionally mature type. He is the sort of despotic ruler who rides on corruption, human rights abuses, political humiliation and national embarrassment, yet he gets the guts to draw the line at another man who once enjoyed the company of his epileptic wife before she succumbed to illness.

The discovery that Elweru was sleeping with Janet Kataaha sent the presidential household into a spectacular crisis.

Brutal dictator Museveni, consumed by rage, turned his anger on his wife, beating her brutally to pulps. The same man who commands an entire security establishment could not command his own emotions or command his old limping wife to keep her legs closed.

And just like that, a private marital scandal became a matter of national security and announcements were made that Kataaha was sick and hospitalized yet in fact she was nursing wounds of Museveni’s beating.

The hunt for General Elweru began.

Suddenly, military intelligence had a new assignment. Security operatives had a new priority. The state machinery was reportedly mobilised, not to protect citizens, investigate corruption or confront the country’s problems, but to track down Elweru whose greatest crime was getting romantically involved with Kataaha and, sex was consensual!

One can only imagine the emergency briefing.

“National security is under threat!”

“From whom? From Elweru”

A country can apparently have all manner of unresolved national problems, but nothing receives the urgency of a wounded dictator’s ego.

Now that General Elweru has been caught, the speculation is that the final chapter may be written in blood.

The question is no longer simply whether Elweru had an affair with the Janet Kataaha, the more serious question is whether senile Museveni will use the machinery of the state to settle personal scores, punish perceived romantic rivals like he is doing to Col (rtd) Dr Kiiza Besigye and potentially eliminate people who have fallen out of his favour.

That is the danger of personal rule.

When a President believes that our country, Uganda 🇺🇬 belongs to him personally, the army becomes his private security company, intelligence agencies become his personal investigators, and the law becomes an inconvenience to be bypassed whenever his feelings are hurt.

There is something profoundly tragic about a country where a powerful man’s domestic affairs can reportedly trigger a national security operation.

Indeed, Elweru should answer to the law, not to a jealous inept senile foreign criminal Museveni. Janet Kataaha should never have become the victim of domestic violence because of her infidelity. And nobody should face extrajudicial execution because a ruler feels personally humiliated.

If Elweru committed adultery, that is a matter between consenting adults and, perhaps, their respective families. It is not a capital offence.

If Museveni committed domestic violence, that is a matter for the law, not something to be excused by the privileges of office.

And if the state is being used to hunt down a personal rival, then the country has a much bigger problem than an affair.

Perhaps the most extraordinary lesson from this entire drama is that a man can command an army, control a government and intimidate an entire nation, yet still be defeated by the possibility that another man has won his wife’s affection.

A word of advice: when the Commander-in-Chief starts treating the national security budget like a marriage counselling fund, it may be time to ask who is really running the country.

Because a nation is not supposed to be governed by a man’s wounded pride.