When we lost independence the second time

OPINION

On page 69-70 of ‘The Dual Mandate' Sir Frederick Lugard (the best known of the British colonial officers to serve in Africa) wrote;

 "In character and temperament the typical African…is a happy, thriftless, excitable person, lacking in self-control, discipline, and foresight, naturally courageous…courteous…polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music…His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from apprehension for the future, or grief for the past".

"He lacks power to organization…He loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility…"

Anyone can think of this text as a "racist writing" until they read Rolf Steiner's "The Last Adventurer". Steiner writes "Blunden (Alexander Gay's pseudo name) told me that the British knew Idi Amin well and he was their first choice because he was the stupidest and the easiest to manipulate".

In brief, he became president because he was the least qualified.

Steiner was a German Mercenary who was helping the Anya- Anya (of Sudan) who were being used by Israel to divert the Arab North.

His counterpart Gay, was a British mercenary whose sole role in Uganda was to either topple or assassinate President Obote.

Mr. Obote had heeded Nyerere's call and attended the Common Wealth conference in Bandung. Uganda and other members planned to threaten to pull out if Britain insisted on selling arms to the apartheid regime in SOUTH Africa.

In that conference, Heath (British PM) exclaimed, "I wonder how many of you will be allowed to return to your countries…!". We'd lost independence the second time except it was systemic.

Lugard had written of Ugandans, "I can give no better illustration of the constancy and single mindedness of the African's friendship than the letters I continue to receive from chiefs in Uganda and Toro…"

 He was "Conquerer of the British empire", the man who offered to advise on the Water Gate scandal and to marry princess Ann of Britain, he saw himself as the world class statesman but practically, he had been set up as a political investment against the future of his own country. Ugandans celebrated Obote's overthrow although to the West, Politics was ‘War by Other Means'.

The plan was to create new and unfamiliar political landscapes as President Eisenhower's Domino effect (of 1950-1880) took shape. The General in Eisenhower, the CIA, M15 and Mossad, knew that replacing governments with military coups was not just quicker, but it would also not be the end.

The investment in that was that the ‘will of the people' would become irrelevant as the military presidents struggled to keep their promises.

That set unrest in motion, collapsing economies, breaking political blocks, erasing alliances, preventing growth thus purchasing time with chaos. This would cause scarcity of resources making Survival an everyday fight.

Amin's insufficient knowledge would soon force him to treat Politics as a boxing game except that he used guns for personal defense.

Uganda became a Republic of ghosts. If one wasn't dead, there was someone else who was or who will be. People learned to speak with signs and eyes because if one spoke, the neighbors could exchange their life for a next day. Crime assumed tribe and religion.

People on Kampala streets wore strips of cloth (formerly shirts or trousers) and half slippers on their feet.

In the country sides, mothers carried breathing skeletons as children, some victims of hunger and others lacking anything medically helpful.

 The investment returns came soon as Uganda was plunged into social, economic and political turmoil. In 1980 the World Bank and IMF were lending money to the ghost republics on condition that democratic traditions be adopted.

However, people soon succumbed to the weight of the political fatigue and we went to war with each other.

By the 1990s, the borrowed money had made profits for our lenders as we bore the burden but none of that was as big a problem as what loomed around our boarders. That decade was spent in dissolving enemy forces and insurgencies all of which were really fighting for human survival and welfare.

The conditions in the states such as Zaire/DRC that harbored these forces had also been creations of the same war.

By 2000, we had a constitution, a parliament and a government. The Eisenhower investment took another form as pens became our guns.

The government needed to reconstruct, the opposition to ensure accountability and the Civil society to question both.

All the three wrote west to execute their work and earn so as to attain the first level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. We traded in internal affairs information and now we are at war of words.

Of the sex orientation wars of the 2010s, Kibooga the Queen mother of Ntare V had prophesied (in1875) ‘those days, people would be marrying their siblings (incest)…the world will be filled with gas fart, women will be telling their husbands: give way, for I want to fart' (homosexuality and feminism)

The Ancient Mayans wrote about a solar darkness (invisible to ordinary eyes) that would happen in 2012 and end in human devastation reflecting Kibooga's prophesy that ‘those practices would be the source of the world's demise'.

For the Mayans, it was also an end of the 13th Baktun cycle and the fifth age that started on 13th August 3114 BC.  According to author Phillip Coppens, it was on this basis that films like "I am legend", "2012" e.t.c were produced.

Judging from Egypt's papyrus 55001 from the new kingdom (whose contents are all over modern art), Kibooga's prophesied practices are promoted as empires service a solar darkness.

That nuances the need for East Africa as it is the cradle of mankind. This is also evidenced by the 2013 findings of queen Tiye's (wife to Amenhotep III from the new kingdom) connection to Africa's great lakes region.

Unless we decide to be ‘single minded' as Lugard wrote, the events that preceded the 2018 independence celebrations i.e. the murders, the stirring of the young, the camps in Kenya, similar to the deployment of 700 British commandos in Nairobi ahead of Obote's overthrow and EU parliamentary statements should warn us all of a third loss of independence.

Jackie Batamuliza

The hierophant.