Even if elections were to be held every four months in all parts of the country, they would do nothing to solve the underlying problem of Uganda and even if free and fair (and most are not free and fair) they would replace one set of helpless and unimaginative leaders with another.

Nothing seems to work any more and no matter how much daily news we continue to consume, it will remain only a variation of the same theme of a country that is close to total collapse in real terms.

Our emphasis from now on is going to be on what next for Uganda. What happens next? Now that we know what we know and this knowledge is clear to most people, how does the country go about re-building from the ashes and debris it finds itself in today?

We shall now start trying to understand the roots of the failure. Before Yoweri Museveni took power in 1986, Uganda was not exactly a G-7 economy. Even at the time of independence in 1962, the country was a largely agro-based society and economy. Most people still walked about bare-footed even in the “good old days.”

What the Museveni government did was add a sinister and cynical dose of poison into an already weakened system. 

But Uganda was weak and ineffectual, even during the days of yesterday that, compared to today, now seem like paradise lost.

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