SIR — People like John Nagenda and Ofwono Opondo are at pains to play down the nasty trend of events between the judiciary and the executive in Uganda. Both of them refer to the judges’ strike as a ‘storm in a tea cup’. It is far from that and they know it.

This so-called ‘storm in a tea cup’ is causing national and international embarrassment however much the local NRM spin doctors may want to explain it away.

Even some conscientious NRM MPs supported the motion to condemn the re-arrest of the PRA suspects. What was the reaction? Kabakumba Masiko, the NRM chief whip, wants ‘disciplinary action’ taken against them! It seems party loyalty takes precedence over decency and reason.

Do we have a sense of where we have come from and where we are going? Why was it necessary to suffer the vagaries of the bush war if we cannot learn from the mistakes of our former leaders?

It is no longer appealing to do whatever we want simply because ‘we fought’ as some people are fond of pontificating.

James Atukunda
Ntungamo